Courses and schedules

Search for course names, descriptions and schedules available from the College of Public Health and university scheduling resources.

Course descriptions and schedules offered below are helpful guides to find courses and when they are offered by the College of Public Health. These tools are not meant to replace the official course catalog maintained by the University Registrar and it does represent all courses offered by the college. 

Undergraduate level courses are numbered 4000 and below, undergraduate/graduate level courses are numbered 5000, and all graduate level courses are numbered 6000 and higher. 

Public Health course catalog

Search for courses by section, title or course number. Each course includes the course number, credit hours, name, course description and if any prerequisites are required.

PUBHEPI 6431
Design and Implementation of Health Surveys

Introduction to health survey methods, with public health applications.

Prequisite(s): PUBHEPI 6410 or 6430, or PUBHLTH 6001 or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 6432
Injury Epidemiology

Introduction to injury epidemiology; historical context, trends, research methods and issues; survey of areas of injury
epidemiology and prevention.

Prequisite(s): 6410 or 6430, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 714.

2 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 6435
Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Survey of the epidemiology of chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and neurodegenerative diseases.

Prequisite(s): 6410 or 6430, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 814.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 6436
Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Introduction to the epidemiology of infectious diseases, with focus on basic methods for investigation, control and prevention of communicable disease.

Prequisite(s): PUBHEPI 6410 or 6430 or PUBHLTH 6001, or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 6437
Cancer Epidemiology

Epidemiology of cancer, including etiology, risk factors, neoplastic processes, screening and control; application of statistical methods; molecular genetic basis of carcinogenesis.

Prequisite(s): PUBHEPI 6410 or 6430 or PUBHLTH 6001, or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 6440
Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology

Epidemiology of reproductive and perinatal health and
methodologic challenges unique to this area.

Prequisite(s): PUBHLTH 6001 or PUBHEPI 6410.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 6441
Epidemiology of Women's Health

Overview of issues related to women's health from epidemiological and behavioral perspectives.

Prequisite(s): PUBHEPI 6410 or 6430, or PUBHLTH 6001 or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 6442
Methods in Social Epidemiology

Social and structural contributors to the distribution of health and disease in populations with emphasis on measurement and methodological challenges.

Prequisite(s): PUBHEPI 4410, 6410, 6430 or PUBHLTH 6001 and graduate student standing or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 7193
Individual Studies in Epidemiology

Individual studies in epidemiology.

Prequisite(s): Permission of instructor.

1‐6 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 7194
Group Studies in Epidemiology

Group studies in epidemiology.

Prequisite(s): Permission of instructor.

1‐3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 7410
Epidemiology II

Design of epidemiologic studies including cross‐sectional studies, case‐control studies, cohort studies, clinical trials and group‐randomized trials.

Prequisite(s): PUBHLTH 6001 or PUBHEPI 6430, or permission of instructor.

4 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 7411
Epidemiology in Environmental Health

Principles and application of epidemiologic methods in the investigation and control of health problems stemming from environmental hazards.

Prequisite(s): 6430, or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 7412
Principles and Procedures for Human Clinical Trials

Principles and procedures for clinical professionals in the design, conduct and analysis of human clinical trials.

Prequisite(s): Prereq or concur PUBHEPI 7410 and PUBHBIO 6211, or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 7430
Epidemiology III

Analysis and interpretation of data from case‐control and cohort studies and from clinical trials.

Prequisite(s): PUBHEPI 7410 and PUBHBIO 6211, or permission of instructor.

4 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 7431
Epidemiologic Methods

Critique and justification for methods of designing, analyzing and interpreting epidemiological data; social, historical and philosophical foundations of epidemiologic methods.

Prequisite(s): PUBHEPI 7410 and PUBHBIO 6211, or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI
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