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The program page names thirteen core courses, and every one is in scope.

The foundations come first. PHE 101 Fundamentals of Public Health introduces the core functions and essential services, the history of the field and how health departments are organized. PHE 321 Biological Concepts for Public Health covers the biology behind infectious and chronic disease, from pathogens and immunity to genetics and environmental exposure. HCM 340 Healthcare Delivery Systems sets out where public health sits beside hospitals, insurers and clinics.

The quantitative block follows. IHP 330 Principles of Epidemiology teaches rates, measures of association, study designs and outbreak investigation, and IHP 340 Statistics for Healthcare Professionals covers descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and regression in health examples. PHE 327 Research and Assessment in Public Health applies both to community health assessment.

The population and behavior courses come next. IHP 410 Population Health and Cultural Competence examines social determinants and health equity, PHE 340 Social and Behavioral Health applies the health belief model, the transtheoretical model and social cognitive theory, and PHE 330 Public Health Education and Communication builds messages and campaigns. IHP 420 Ethical and Legal Considerations of Healthcare covers police powers, consent and privacy.

The applied sequence closes the degree: PHE 425 Programming Planning in Public Health, PHE 423 Evaluation Methods in Public Health and PHE 489 Public Health Capstone Communication.

Course-level pages, linked from the table below, describe the graded work in each.

A public health degree builds on itself, so we start with your program plan: which courses you have finished, what transferred, and which terms come next. The schedule follows that plan, one course a term or two together.

The pairing is by daily work. A county epidemiologist handles IHP 330 and its outbreak problem sets; a biostatistician handles IHP 340 output and interpretation; a health educator handles PHE 330 and PHE 340; a program evaluator handles PHE 423 and PHE 425.

The applied courses are planned together. Pick one place early, perhaps a rural county where teen vaping is climbing, and the community assessment written for it becomes the base for the program plan, then the evaluation, then the capstone talk, so each course builds on graded work instead of starting over.

Inside a term, every post is written before its module opens, problem sets and papers come early enough to read, and you get a study sheet before each quiz you sit. Instructor comments shape the next piece.

Between terms, a coordinator lines up the next course and passes forward anything that should carry, such as your community, your data sources and the tone of your earlier posts.

The writers on the Public Health bench have done the work the courses teach: a state health department epidemiologist who has investigated foodborne outbreaks, a biostatistician who analyzes surveillance data, a certified health education specialist who has run tobacco prevention campaigns, a program evaluator who designs logic models for grant-funded programs, a hospital community benefit manager who writes community health needs assessments.

Matching matters because a two-by-two table in IHP 330, a social marketing plan in PHE 330 and a logic model in PHE 425 call for different expertise.

Every piece is checked by an editor against its authority, whether CDC data, the course's statistics software or the rubric, before delivery.

From PHE 101 to PHE 489, your plan has the same coordinator.

Epidemiology is the first wall for many Public Health students. IHP 330 asks for incidence and prevalence calculations, relative risks and odds ratios, and judgments about bias and confounding, often in the same week as a long reading load.

Statistics follows close behind. IHP 340 expects students to choose the right test, run it and explain the result in plain language, and small errors in setup carry through every answer.

Theory application is the third. PHE 340 and PHE 330 graders want behavior change models applied to a specific population and behavior, not described in general terms.

The applied sequence is where time runs short. PHE 425, PHE 423 and PHE 489 each expect a coherent plan, evaluation and presentation, and students who switch communities between them must redo the groundwork each time.

Most Public Health students also work, many in health care, social services or government, and eight-week terms leave no gap between courses.

Writing is the quieter hurdle. Public Health papers mix technical findings with plain explanation for a general reader, and many students who handle the numbers well find that translation slow.

Every Public Health course is priced from its syllabus. Epidemiology, statistics and the last three applied courses are the costliest to hand over, and the opening foundations are the cheapest.

Scope is yours to set: the whole remaining core, one term, or only the courses that clash with work. A common split hands over epidemiology and statistics and keeps the communication courses, or the reverse.

The best time to start is about ten days before a term. Joining partway through a term means paying only for what is left.

Timed quizzes and exams, proctored tests and any fieldwork with real community members stay with you. Attach your degree audit to the quote request.