PH 261/262/263/264:

Practicum and Practicum Intensive

(12 Credits)

The TDI Hybrid MPH includes a concurrent practicum course that runs throughout the entire program, combining an Applied Practice Experience, or APE (a field study) with an Integrated Learning Experience, or ILE (written culminating project). Students develop and execute their own individual practicum with faculty support, focusing on a specific problem area or question. Skills gained in the program serve to improve health and/or health care, develop or refine policy, or generate new knowledge in a real-world setting.  Using systems thinking, qualitative and quantitative methods, along with effective inquiry, student practicums will provide actionable insights and feasible recommendations.

PH 214:

Qualitative & Survey Research Methods

(3 Credits)

This course introduces the basic principles of qualitative research design and analysis using grounded theory along with the fundamentals of developing and analyzing surveys. Students will gain experience with interviewing and focus group facilitation, survey design and sampling, data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting of results. In addition to gaining knowledge about primary research methods, students will be introduced to the use and analysis of data from publicly available national survey data.

PH 161:

MPH Internship

(4 Credits)

The public health field internship provides students with an opportunity to apply principles and skills learned in the classroom - the measurement, organization, and improvement of public health care - to real situations in the field. A minimum of 120 hours is to be spent at the placement site during the winter and spring terms. Typically, this internship occurs in the final term of the year, but other arrangements are possible, typically for part-time students, with permission of the course director. Students who have completed their internships prepare and present an overview of their experience at the conclusion of the spring term and complete an exit appraisal of their experience and achievements.

Required for MPH; Not available for MS, PhD, Post-doc or Special students.
Prerequisites: PH 100, 102, 111, 115, 117, 139, 140, 151, and 154 or consent of course directors.