Graduate Minors

The graduate minor in community health education (CHE) provides graduate students the opportunity to build a strong methodological foundation which can be applied to public health and a variety of academic programs and research areas.

Requirements for the Minor:

• Average GPA of 3.0 or higher in all courses
• Approval of CHE concentration faculty
• Interested students must earn a minimum grade of B+ in PUBH 552: Assessment and Planning.

Required Semester Hours:

• 12 semester hours

Required Coursework (hours):

• Public Health 537—Program Evaluation (3)
• Public Health 552 – Assessment and Planning (3)
• Two elective courses from the following list:
  • PUBH 532 – Health Communications (3)
  • PUBH 535 – Public Health Book Club (3)
  • PUBH 536 – Research Methods in Health (3)
    Cannot be used as an elective for students enrolled in the EPI concentration
  • PUBH 555 – Health & Society (3)
    Prerequisite of PUBH 552 required for this course
  • PUBH 556 – Grant Writing (3)

Requirements for the Minor:

• A minimum average 3.30 GPA in PUBH 530 & PUBH 540
• Approval from your program advisor
• Students must complete the Epidemiology minor form after completing PUBH 530 and 540 but before registering for an approved elective or PUBH 542

Required Semester Hours:

• a minimum of 12 semester hours

Required Coursework (hours):

• Public Health 530—Biostatistics (3)
• Public Health 540—Principles of Epidemiology (3)
• Advanced Epidemiology Course
  • Doctoral Students
    • Public Health 640—Epidemiology III (3)
  • Master’s Students
    • Public Health 542 – Epidemiology II (3)
• Approved elective (3)

More information and a list of currently approved electives can be found here.(pdf)

Epidemiology minor declaration form(pdf)

The statistics minor requires 9 semester credit hours. MPH coursework hours may be used to partially satisfy credit hours needed for the respective minors.

More information can be found here.