HOME: Go to SPH HomepageAbout UIC SPH Divisions & Offices Academics Research, Service & Training Admissions
Go to the Student Handbook home page

UIC School of Public Health Student Handbook 2008-2009

To print the curricular table for the CHS MS, please download here(pdf)

 

 

 

MS Curriculum

TOTAL Credit Hours = minimum of 48  semester credit hours (SH)

http://www.uic.edu/sph/chs.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

School-Wide

 Core

Requirements

 

·   EPID 403 Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (3 SH)

·   BSTT 400 Biostatistics I (4 SH)

 

Required Non-Credit Training:
(
http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/protocolreview/irb/
education/initial.shtml
)

 

·   HIPAA Research 101 (non-credit)

·   Investigator Training 101 (non-credit)

 

MS Thesis Research Requirement:*

 

·   IPHS 598 Research in Public Health Sciences (16 SH)

 

 

 

 

Divisional

Core

Requirements

 

·   CHSC 400 Public Health Concepts and Practice (3 SH)

 

Students must select one of the following courses:

·   HPA 400 Basic Principles of Management in Public Health (3 SH)

·   EOHS 400 Principles of Environmental Health Sciences (3 SH)

·   CHSC 401 Behavioral Sciences in Public Health (3 SH)

 

SUB-TOTAL: 6 semester credit hours

 

 

 

 

 

Electives

 

 

Students may use their advanced electives to pursue a course of study in one of the following inter-disciplinary concentrations; or may customize their program of study by selecting from a broad range of course work to meet their career goals and interests.   

 

All students must complete a minimum of 20 semester hours of electives, at least 9 of which must be at the 500-level in the major area of concentration.

 

SUB-TOTAL: minimum of 20 semester credit hours

 

 

 

Other Recognized Interdisciplinary Concentrations

 

Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Survey Research Methodology http://www.srl.uic.edu/gcsrm.htm

Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Women's Health http://www.uic.edu/nursing/forms/WHConcentrationWebInfo.pdf

Graduate Concentration in Women's Studies http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/graduate/index.htm

Global Health http://www.uic.edu/sph/global/index.shtml

 

 

TOTAL HOURS

 

Minimum of 48 semester credit hours

 

 

Community Health Sciences (CHS): MS Learning Objectives

In addition to the school-wide learning objectives, for students pursuing the MS degree in Community Health Sciences, the following objectives apply:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a well-defined public health discipline and its connection to, and impact on, public health.
  2. Demonstrate understanding of discipline-specific theoretical constructs, research design, research methodology and analytical strategies.
  3. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and interpret scientific literature.
  4. Participate in an original research project that makes a contribution to the body of knowledge of their discipline.
  5. Demonstrate the ability to disseminate research findings to the scientific community.

 

Joint Degree Options for CHS students:

MBA/MPH

MD/MPH

MS Nursing/MPH

MA Anthropology/MPH

General MS Curricular Policies: See http://www.uic.edu/sph/shandbook_ms.htm

 

Top of Page

 

 

                                                                                                                                                   

Search Site MapContactCatalog
Go to SPH Homepage: School of Public Health, people serving people Go to UIC Homepage: UIC University of Illinois at Chicago