Areas of Emphasis:
Human Nutrition + Physical Activity (Combined):
Core courses (16 hours):
- STAT 703: Statistical Methods for Natural Scientists (3)
- DMP 708: Principles and Methods of Epidemiology (2)
- DMP 806: Environmental Toxicology (2)
- DMP 854: Disease Epidemiology (3)
- HRIMD 720: Administration of Health Care Organizations (3)
- KIN 818: Social and Behavioral Basis of Public Health (3)
Required courses (15 hours):
- HN 600: Public Health Nutrition* (3)
- HN 635 or KIN 635: Nutrition and Exercise* (3)
- KIN 796: Program Planning and Evaluation (3)
- KIN 830: Public Health Physical Activity (3)
- HN 844: Nutritional Epidemiology(3)
- *may substitute another course if already taken
Elective courses (6 hours): Students must select one course in nutrition and one course in physical activity. Acceptable substitutions for these courses are allowed only when the substitute course has an intense concentration in public health/population health.
- HN 718: Physical Health and Aging (3)
- HN 735: Advanced Energy Balance (3)
- HN 782: Topics in Human Nutrition (3)
- KIN 796: Topics: Cultural Competency and Physical Activity (3)
- KIN 805: Physical Activity and Human Behavior (3)
- KIN 808: Social Epidemiology of Physical Activity (3)
Field experience *OR* master's thesis *OR* combined field experience and master's report (6 hours):
- HN 840 or KIN 840: Public Health Field Experience (4-6)
- HN 898 or KIN 898: Master's Report (2)
- HN 899 or KIN 899: Master's Thesis (6)