Degree Requirements

About the Concentration

Students electing the Cancer Epidemiology concentration must complete the School-Wide Course Requirements as well as 35 semester credit hours of the following concentration courses.

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School-Wide Core Requirements (18 semester hours) Heading link

  • BSTT 400 – Biostatistics I (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 403 – Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (3 semester hours)
  • IPHS 520 – Foundations of Public Health (3 semester hours)
  • IPHS 598 – Research in the Public Health Sciences – MS (8 semester hours)

Required Non-Credit Training Heading link

Divisional Core (16 - 17 semester hours) Heading link

Required courses:

  • BSTT 401 – Biostatistics II (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 404 – Intermediate Epidemiologic Methods (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 406 – Epidemiologic Computing (3 semester hours)
  • EPID 591 – Current Epidemiologic Literature (2 semester hours)
  • EPID 595 – Epidemiology Research Seminar (1 semester hour)

Select one of the following courses:

  • BSTT 505 – Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis (2 semester hours)
  • BSTT 506 – Design of Clinical Trials (3 semester hours)

Required Concentration Courses (23 - 24 semester hours) Heading link

  • BSTT 401 – Biostatistics II (4 semester hours)
  • BSTT 505 – Survival Analysis and Logistic Regression (2 semester hours)
  • EPID 404 – Intermediate Epidemiologic Methods (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 406 – Epidemiologic Computing (3 semester hours)
  • EPID 515 – Survey of Cancer Epidemiology (3 semester hours)
  • EPID 591 – Current Epidemiologic Literature (2 semester hours)
  • EPID 595 – Epidemiology Research Seminar (1 semester hour)

Select two of the following courses:

  • CHSC 514 / HN 594 – Nutritional Epidemiology (3 semester hours)
  • EPID 520 – Genetics in Epidemiology (2 semester hours)
  • EPID 550 – Advanced Special Topics in Epidemiology: Surveillance Epidemiology (2 semester hours)
  • EPID 554 – Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology (2 semester hours)
  • EPID 594 – Advanced Special Topics in Epidemiology: Social Epidemiology (2 semester hours)

Elective Courses (11 - 12 semester hours) Heading link

Students must take a minimum of 11-12 semester hours of electives as necessary to reach minimum of 50 total semester hours.