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Graduate Catalog | 2024-2025 
    
Graduate Catalog | 2024-2025

Public Health, MPH, and Anthropology, M.A., Dual Degree


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This dual degree program combines public health practice and applied anthropological methods for students interested in having a public health anthropology focus. The degree consists of 63 credit hours (80% of the 45 credit hours required for the Master in Public Health  [36] and 81% of the 33 credit hours required for the Master of Arts in Anthropology  [27]).  The time to degree completion for full time students is 3 years (6 Fall/Spring semesters plus 1 Summer semester).

For the MPH, students complete the 5 core courses (15 credit hours), the 3 credit hour applied learning experience, or internship, as well as the 18 credit hours associated with one of the MPH concentrations: Community Health Practice, Health Policy, Physical Activity and Nutrition, or Epidemiology. For the M.A. in Anthropology , students complete 15 core credit hours with a focus on theory and ethnographic methods and then complete the 18 credit hour practicum option.

Admission Requirements


Students must apply to each program separately and be admitted to both programs by the published census date of the third semester (including Summer). No admission requirements established by the Graduate School or by either individual program may be waived. See MPH, Public Health  and Anthropology, M.A.  sections of this catalog for individual program admission requirements.

Dual Degree Requirements


Dual degree students must satisfy all individual degree requirements (Public Health, MPH  and Anthropology, M.A. ) with the added benefit of sharing a limited number of credits between the two programs. See the Shared Courses section below for permissible course sharing.

Shared Courses


Public Health, MPH

The Public Health, MPH program allows 9 credit hours to be shared from Anthropology, M.A. as follows:

Degree Requirement(s) ANTH Course(s) Allowed Credits
Cross-Cutting Elective ANTH 6601   3
Restricted Elective ANTH 6603   3
Interprofessional Elective ANTH 6611   3
Anthropology, M.A.

Note: Dual degree students must select the Medical Anthropology concentration.
The Anthropology, M.A. program allows 6 credits to be shared from Public Health, MPH as follows:

Degree Requirement(s) ANTH Course(s) Allowed Credits
Elective HADM 6100   3
ANTH 6400  Practicum HLTH 6471   3

Dual Degree Total = 63 Credit Hours


Other Requirements


Students complete a combined internship and research-based report with an appropriate and approved community-based entity.

Grade Requirements


Students are required to maintain an overall GPA of 3.0.

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