Please Note: The following is a list of subjects and courses previous MPH Students completed as electives. This is not an exhaustive list and if you have questions about if a course is eligible to apply toward a program requirement, please email epichstu@umn.edu.
5111 Ways of Thinking about Health
5115 Cultural Awareness, Knowledge and Health
5118 Whole Person, Whole Community: The Reciprocity of Wellbeing
5215 - Forgiveness and Healing: A Journey Toward Wholeness
5303 Pain Management and Evidence Based Complementary Health Approaches
5305 Introduction to Integrative Mental Health
5701 Fundamentals of Health Coaching I
5702 Fundamentals of Health Coaching II
5703 Advanced Health Coaching Practicum
5704 Business of Health Coaching
5706 Lifestyle Medicine
5707 Coaching People with Clinical Conditions
5708 Mind-Body Science and the Art of Transformation
5709 Health and Wellbeing Group Coaching
5713 Health Coaching for Health Professionals
5805 Wellbeing in the Workplace
5806 Wellbeing and Resiliency for Health Professionals
5807 Mindfulness in the Workplace
5905 Food Matters: Cook Like Your Life Depends On It
5114 Psychology of Student Learning
5247 Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology
5609 Family-centered Services
8251 Statistical Methods in Education I
8264 Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis
8282 Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Data
5014 Quantitative Family Research Methods I
5015 Family Research Laboratory
5111 Introduction to Family Therapy
5701 Prevention Science: Principles and Practices
5937 Parent-Child Interaction
5942 Diverse Family Experiences
5944 Curricular Design in Parent Education
5945 Teaching and Learning in Parent Education
5946 Assessment and Evaluation in Parent Education
8001 Conceptual Frameworks in the Family
8002 Advanced Family Conceptual Frameworks
8014 Quantitative Family Research Methods II
8036 Couple/Marriage and Family Therapy Research
8101 Family Stress, Coping, and Adaptation
5131 Food Quality for Graduate Credit
5312 Food Analysis
5601 Management of Eating Disorders
5430 Foundations of Health Informatics I
5431 Foundations of Health Informatics II
5440 Foundations of Translational Bioinformatics
5450 Foundations of Precision Medicine Informatics
5502 Python Programming Essentials for the Health Sciences
5510 Applied Health Care Databases: Database Principles and Data Evaluation
5520 Informatics Methods for Health Care Quality, Outcomes, and Patient Safety
5531 Health Data Analytics and Data Science
5610 Foundations of Biomedical Natural Language Processing
5620 Data Visualization for the Health Sciences
5630 Clinical Data Mining
6001 Foundations of Human Sexuality
6011 Policy in Human Sexuality: Cutting Edge Analyses
6012 Sexual Function and Dysfunction
6013 Perspectives and Practices in Sexuality Education
6036 Reproductive Rights
6046 Human Trafficking
6058 Human Rights Advocacy
6621 Rights in Conflict: Citizenship and Human Rights
6718 Immigration and Criminal Law: Immigration Consequences of Crimes and Criminalizing Migration
6827 Women's International Human Rights
5010 Foundations of Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration
5029 Introduction to Nursing Interventions
5031 Human Response to Health and Illness: Adults and Elders
5032 Human Response to Health and Illness: Children and Childbearing Families
5115 Interdisciplinary Healthcare Informatics
5116 Consumer Health Informatics
5117 Consumer Health Informatics Practicum
5190 Essentials of Holistic Health Assessment and Foundational Clinical
5284 Supporting Physiologic Labor and Childbirth for Nurses
5505 Assessment and Support of Women in Labor
6110 Epidemiology in Nursing
6213 Reproductive Healthcare for Women at Risk
6305 Women's Reproductive Health Care
6600 Health Systems and Care Models
6895 Adult Acute Care Holistic Health Assessment and Wellness
6924 Assessment and Interventions for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
7100 Quality Improvement and Implementation Science in Health Care
7108 Population Health Informatics
7209 Integrative Health and Healing
7300 Program Planning and Evaluation
8134 Interventions and Outcomes Research
8171 Qualitative Research Design and Methods
8185 Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Care Research
5624 Nutrition and Genetics
5626 Nutritional Physiology
5627 Nutritional and Food Toxicology
8620 Advances in Nutrition
5011 Leading Organizational Change: Theory and Practice
5095 Problems: Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development
5096 Internship: Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development
5103 Comparative Education
5104 Strategies for International Development of Education Systems
5107 Gender, Education, and International Development
5124 Critical Issues in International Education and Educational Exchange
5132 Intercultural Education and Training: Theory and Application
5201 Strategies for Teaching Adults
5202 Perspectives of Adult Learning and Development
5346 Politics of Education
5501 Principles and Methods of Evaluation
5502 Theory and Models of Evaluation
5607 Organization Development
5611 Facilitation and Meeting Skills
5619 Planning and Decision-Making Skills
5819 Evaluating and Using Research in Organizations and Education
8502 Program Evaluation Theory and Models: Qualitative and Quantitative Alternatives
8569 Evaluation Internship
5231 Emergency Preparedness: A Public Health Perspective
6004 Global Health Capstone
6011 Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS
6034 Evaluation I: Concepts
6035 Evaluation II: Applications
6045 Skills for Policy Development
6049 Legislative Advocacy Skills for Public Health
6055 Social Inequalities in Health
6060 Motivational Interviewing: Strategies to Effect Behavior Change
6066 Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work
6074 Mass Communication and Public Health
6078 Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy
6081 Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Health
6094 Interventions to Address Weight-Related Health and Eating Disorders
6107 Excel and Access Skills in Public Health Settings
6108 Foundations of Global Health
6115 Worker Protection Law
6116 Environmental Law
6120 Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home
6123 Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application
6130 Occupational Medicine: Principles and Practice
6131 Working in Global Health
6132 Air, Water, and Health
6134 Sustainable Development and Global Public Health
6140 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
6141 GIS & Spatial Analysis for Public Health
6150 Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Field Problems
6154 Climate Change and Global Health
6159 Principles of Toxicology I
6160 Principles of Toxicology II
6161 Regulatory Toxicology
6162 Biomarkers
6170 Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety
6173 Exposure to Physical Agents
6175 Environmental Measurements Laboratory
6177 Nanotechnology Health and Safety
6181 Surveillance of Foodborne Disease and Food Safety Hazards
6182 Emerging Infectious Disease: Current Issues, Policies, and Controversies
6183 Theory and Practice in Foodborne Disease Outbreak Detection, Investigation, and Control
6241 American Indian Public Health and Wellness, Health Policy, Law, Health Services Administration
6242 Cultural Humility with American Indian Populations
6243 American Indian Research, Evaluation and Collaborations
6244 American Indian Health & Wellness Equity
6246 General History of American Indians Post Colonization and Review of Historical Trauma
6261 Human Centered Design for Public Health Leadership, Practice and Innovation
6301 Fundamentals of Clinical Research
6310 Clinical Epidemiology I
6311 Clinical Epidemiology II
6325 Data Processing with PC-SAS
6333 Principles of Human Behavior I
6342 Epidemiologic Methods II
6343 Epidemiologic Methods III
6348 Writing Research Grants
6350 Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab
6355 Pathophysiology of Human Disease
6365 Global Challenges in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
6370 Social Epidemiology
6381 Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine
6385 Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases
6386 Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention
6389 Nutritional Epidemiology
6420 Introduction of SAS Programming
6451 Biostatistics II
6601 Born a Girl: Global Women’s Health
6605 Reproductive and Perinatal Health
6606 Children’s Health: Life Course and Equity Perspectives
6607 Adolescent Health: Issues, Programs, and Policies
6613 Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
6627 Sexuality Education: Criteria, Curricula, and Controversy
6636 Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health Practice
6673 Grant Writing for Public Health
6675 Women’s Health
6702 Integrative Leadership Seminar
6711 Public Health Law
6717 Decision Analysis for Health Care
6724 The Health Care System and Public Health
6727 Health Leadership and Effecting Change
6730 International Comparative Health Systems
6735 Principles of Health Policy
6737 Structural Racism and Health
6744 State Health Policy and Politics
6745 Rural Health
6755 Planning and Budgeting for Public Health
6765 Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques
6772 Health Disparities Capstone Seminar
6803 Conducting a Systematic Literature Review
6805 Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals
6806 Principles of Public Health Research
6809 Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science
6813 Managing Electronic Health Information
6819 Qualitative Research Theory and Methods for Health and Health Science Research
6832 Economics of the Health Care System
6845 Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis
6852 Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings
6855 Medical Sociology
6862 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care
6863 Understanding Health Care Quality
6864 Conducting Health Outcomes Research
6904 Nutrition and Aging
6906 Global Nutrition
6907 Maternal, Infant, Child and Adolescent Nutrition
6914 Community Nutrition Intervention
6915 Nutrition Assessment
6933 Nutrition and Chronic Disease
6954 Personal, Social and Environmental Influences on the Weight-Related Health of Pediatric Populations
6955 Using Policy to Address the Weight-Related Health of Child and Adolescent Populations
7221 Planning for Urgent Threats
7231 Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases in Humans
7235 Surveillance of Zoonotic Pathogens in Animals
7250 Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews
7253 Introduction to GIS
7252 Qualitative Data Analysis
7262 Globalization and Health
7401 Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference
7402 Biostatistics Modeling and Methods
7405 Biostatistics: Regression
7406 Advanced Regression and Design
7415 Introduction to Clinical Trials
7420 Clinical Trials: Design, Implementation, and Analysis
7439 Statistical Methods for Correlated Data
7440 Introduction to Bayesian Analysis
7445 Statistics for Human Genetics and Molecular Biology
7450 Survival Analysis
7461 Exploring and Visualizing Data in R
7462 Advanced Programming and Data Analysis in R
7470 Study Designs in Biomedical Research
7475 Statistical Learning and Data Mining
7485 Methods for Causal Inference
7710 Setting Priorities and Framing Public Health Issues
7720 Data to Drive Public Health
7730 Public Health Laws, Rules and Regulations
7740 Leadership and Leading Change
8120 Occupational Health and Safety Research Seminar
8160 Advanced Toxicology
8166 Experiences in Toxicology Reserch
8343 Synthesis and Application of Methods in Epidemiologic Research
8344 Advanced Epidemiologic Methods Workshop
8401 Linear Models
8403 Research Skills in Biostatistics
8432 Probability Models for Biostatistics
8446 Advanced Statistical Genetics and Genomic
8452 Advanced Longitudinal Data Analysis
8475 Statistical Learning and Data Mining
8485 Methods for Causal Inference
8492 Theories of Hierarchical and Other Richly Parametrized Linear Models
8804 Advanced Quantitative Methods Seminar
8805 Sociological Theory in Health Services Research
8810 Research Studies in Health Care
8811 Research Methods in Health Care
8816 Implementation Science in Public Health
8821 Health Economics II
8831 Writing for Research
8801 Prevention Science: Principles and Practices
5002 Introduction to Policy Analysis
5003 Introduction to Financial Analysis and Management
5004 Introduction to Planning
5011 Management of Organizations
5012 The Politics of Public Affairs
5013 Law and Urban Land Use
5021 Microeconomics for Policy Analysis
5022 Applications of Economics for Policy Analysis
5031 Statistics for Public Affairs
5032 Applied Regression
5033 Multivariate Techniques
5041 Qualitative Methods for Policy Analysts
5042 Urban and Regional Economics
5043 Economic and Demographic Data Analysis
5044 Applied Regression, Accelerated
5051 Public Affairs Leadership
5053 Policy Analysis in Public Affairs
5054 Program Design and Implementation Analysis
5055 Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis
5056 Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis
5081 Working in Teams: Crossing Disciplines and Learning from Difference
5101 Management and Governance of Nonprofit Organizations
5103 Leadership and Change
5104 Strategic Human Resource Management
5105 Integrative Leadership: Leading Across Sectors to Address Grand Challenges
5113 State and Local Public Finance
5114 Budget Analysis in Public and Nonprofit Orgs
5116 Financing Public and Nonprofit Organizations
5122 Law and Public Affairs
5123 Philanthropy in America: History, Practice, and Trends
5135 Managing Conflict: Negotiation
5136 Group Process Facilitation for Organizational and Public/Community Engagement
5137 Project Management in the Public Arena
5145 Civic Participation in Public Affairs
5151 Organizational Perspectives on Global Development & Humanitarian Assistance
5204 Urban Spatial and Social Dynamics
5209 Urban Planning and Health Equity
5211 Land Use Planning
5212 Managing Urban Growth and Change
5213 Introduction to Site Planning
5234 Urban Transportation Planning and Policy
5231 Transit Planning and Management
5242 Environmental Planning, Policy, and Decision Making
5251 Strategic Planning and Management
5261 Housing Policy
5262 Neighborhood Revitalization Theories and Strategies
5271 Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Planning and Policy Analysis
5281 Immigrants, Urban Planning and Policymaking in the U.S.
5301 Population Methods & Issues for the United States & Global South
5311 Program Evaluation
5401 Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy
5405 Public Policy Implementation
5413 Early Childhood and Public Policy
5415 Economics of Early Childhood Development
5421 Racial Inequality and Public Policy
5426 Research and Policy with Marginalized Groups
5431 Public Policies on Work and Pay
5451 Immigration, Health and Public Policy
5521 Development Planning and Policy Analysis
5561 Gender and International Development
5601 Global Survey of Gender and Public Policy
5711 Science, Technology & Environmental Policy
5721 Energy Systems and Policy
5723 Water Policy
5724 Climate Change Policy
5741 Risk, Resilience and Decision Making
5801 Global Public Policy
5805 Global Economics
5813 US Foreign Policy: Issues and Institutions
5814 Global Diplomacy in a Time of Change
5823 Managing Humanitarian and Refugee Crises: Challenges for Policymakers & Practitioners
5825 Crisis Management in Foreign Affairs
5826 National Security Policy
5885 Human Rights Policy: Issues and Actors
5927 Effective Grant Writing for Nonprofit Organizations
5928 Data Management and Visualization with R
5929 Data Visualization: Telling Stories with Numbers
5933 Survey Methods: Designing Effective Questionnaires
5051 Human Behavior and the Social Environment
5101 Historical Origins and Contemporary Policies in Social Welfare
5562 Global Social Work and Social Development
5904 Facilitation and Conflict Management: Humanistic Approach
5906 Advanced Ethical Decision Making
5912 Grief and Loss in Social Work Practice
8151 Social Work Methods: Practice With Individuals and Systems
8152 Social Work Practice Methods: Families and Groups
8153 Social Work Practice Methods: Macro Practice and Organizations
8251 Social Work Practice in Health, Disabilities, and Aging
8262 Empowerment Practice With Persons With Disabilities
8263 Advanced Direct Practice and Community-Based Interventions in Gerontology
8351 Assessment and Engagement with Families and Children
8352 Intervention Methods with Families
8361 Identification and Assessment of Family Violence
8363 Social Work in Child Welfare
8451 Assessment and Engagement in Clinical Social Work Practice
8452 Core Concepts in Clinical Social Work Practice
8461 Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with Adults
8462 Advanced Clinical Practice With Children and Adolescents
8463 Social Work Practice With Severe and Persistent Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disturbance
8551 Advanced Community Practice: Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy
8552 Advanced Community Practice: Leadership, Planning, and Program Development
8563 Advanced Policy Advocacy
8804 Child Welfare Policy
8806 Health and Mental Health Policy
8807 International and Comparative Social Welfare Policy
8821 Social Work and Difference, Diversity and Privilege
8841 Social Work Research Methods
8842 Advanced Social Work Evaluation
8843 Social Work Program Evaluation
8851 Social Welfare History and Historical Research Methods
8901 Assessment and Treatment of Trauma
8902 Social Work Supervision, Consultation, and Leadership
5101 Molecular and Cellular Basis of Nanoparticle Toxicity
5165 Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards
5180 Ecology of Infectious Disease
5181 Spatial Analysis in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
5915 Essential Statistics for Life Sciences
8134 Ethical Conduct of Animal Research