Areas of Emphasis:
Non-DVM Students:
Core Program Courses (16 credit hours):
- STAT 703: Statistical Methods for Natural Scientists (3 hours)
- DMP 708: Principles and Methods of Epidemiology (2 hours)
- DMP 806: Environmental Toxicology (2 hours)
- DMP 854: Disease Epidemiology (3 hours)
- HRIMD 720: Administration of Health Care Organizations (3 hours)
- KIN 818: Social and Behavioral Basis of Public Health (3 hours)
Area of Emphasis (20 credit hours):
Students will select 10 credit hours from the following list of courses:
- DMP Courses available for Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses Emphasis Area
- DMP 770: Fundamental Concepts in Emerging Pathogenic Diseases (1 hour)
- DMP 803: Advanced Toxicology (3 hours)
- DMP 805: Toxins in Biological Systems (1-3 hours)
- DMP 807: Current Topics in Toxicology (2 hours)
- DMP 809: Problems in Toxicology (1-3 hours)
- DMP 849: Pathologic Technique and Diagnosis (1-3 hours)
- DMP 850: Domestic Animal Immunology (3 hours)
- DMP 856: Advanced Veterinary Parasitology (3 hours)
- DMP 860: Pathogenic Mechanisms (3 hours)
- DMP 861: Advanced Diagnostic Pathology (1-3 hours)
- DMP 863: Advanced Principles of Pathology (3 hours)
- DMP 865: Diagnostic Veterinary Virology (3 hours)
- DMP 870: Seminar in Pathobiology (MS) (1 hour)
- DMP 871: Molecular Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases (3 hours)
- DMP 880: Problems in Pathobiology (MS) (1-3 hours)
Potentially Applicable Courses in other Departments:
- BIOL 529: Fundamentals of Ecology (3 hours)
- BIOL 545: Human Parasitology (3 hours)
- BIOL 546: Human Parasitology Laboratory (1 hour)
- BIOL 609: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Human Diseases (3 hours)
- BIOL 625: Animal Parasitology (4 hours)
- BIOL 670: Immunology (4 hours)
- BIOL 671: Immunology Laboratory (2 hours)
- BIOL 687: Microbial Ecology (3 hours)
- BIOL 730: General Virology (3 hours)
- BIOL 731: Virology Laboratory (2 hours)
- BIOL 805: Advanced Mycology (3 hours)
- ASI 503: Topics in Comparative Pathology (1-3 hours)
- ASI 540: Principles of Animal Disease Control (3 hours)
- FDSCI 690: Principles of HACCP (2 hours)
- FDSCI 915: Food Toxicology (2 hours)
- STAT 704: Analysis of Variance (2 hours)
- STAT 705: Regression and Correlation Analysis (2 hours)
- STAT 710: Sample Survey Methods (2 hours)
- STAT 716: Non-parametric Statistics (2 hours)
- STAT 720: Design of Experiments (3 hours)
- STAT 730: Multivariate Statistical Methods (3 hours)
- STAT 735: Statistics in Health Related Industries (2 hours)
Field experience or masters thesis (6 hours).
Students will complete 6 credit hours appropriate for either an MS thesis or field experience.
- DMP 840: Publich Health Field Experience (3-6 hours)
- DMP 898: MS Research (Microbiology) (1-6 hours)
- DMP 899: MS Research (Pathobiology) (1-6 hours)