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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PhD) IN HUMAN NUTRITION

Required and Elective Courses, 2023-2024

Required and Elective Courses

All students in the PhD in the Human Nutrition Program must take the required courses listed below. All required courses must be taken for a letter grade except for courses only offered for pass/fail grading. Below you'll find the lists of required and elective courses.

Required Courses 2023-24

Course No.

Course Title

Term

Credits

General Degree Requirements

550.860

Academic and Research Ethics at BSPH 

1

0

220.842

Doctoral Independent Goals Analysis (IGA)

1

1

222.860

Graduate Nutrition Seminar 

1 – 4

1

220.600

International Travel Preparation, Safety, and Wellness (only take once)  

2, 3, 4

1

Epidemiology Requirement (choose one option)

Option 1

340.721

Epidemiologic Inference in Public Health I

1

5

340.722

Epidemiologic Inference in Public Health II

2

5

Option 2

 

340.751

Epidemiologic Methods I

1

5

340.752

Epidemiologic Methods II

2

5

340.753

Epidemiologic Methods III

3

5

Biostatistics Requirement (choose one option)

Option 1

140.621

Statistical Methods in Public Health I

1

4

140.622

Statistical Methods in Public Health II

2

4

140.623

Statistical Methods in Public Health III

3

4

140.624

Statistical Methods in Public Health IV

4

4

Option 2

 

140.651

Methods in Biostatistics I

1

4

140.652

Methods in Biostatistics II

2

4

140.653

Methods in Biostatistics III

3

4

140.654

Methods in Biostatistics IV

4

4

Ethics Requirement (choose one of the following)

550.600

Living Science Ethics Responsible Conduct of Research

1, 4

2

306.665

Research Ethics and Integrity: US and International Issues

3

3

Additionally, students are required to complete the CITI Training Module

Nutrition and Health

222.641

Principles of Human Nutrition in Public Health

1

4

222.657

Food and Nutrition Policy

1

2

222.658

Critical Thinking in Nutrition I

1

1

222.655

Nutrition and Life Stages

3

3

222.654

Food, Culture, and Nutrition

4

4

Environment and Health (choose one option)

Option 1

 

220.605

Doctoral Seminar in International Health I

1

3

Option 2

182.640

Food and Water-Borne Diseases

3

3

Option 3 

 

552.607

Essentials of Environmental Health

1 – 3

0.5

552.612

Essentials of One Health

1, 4

0.5

Biochemistry and Metabolism

260.600

Intro to Biomedical Sciences (8-week online course taken over the Summer before 1st term)

S

4

222.644

Cellular Biochemistry of Nutrients

2

3

222.651

Nutrients in Biological Systems

3

2

Research Methods

222.861

Doctoral Seminar in Proposal Development (taken in terms 3 and 4 of Year 1 and in terms 1 and 2 of Year 2)

1 – 4

1 each

222.840

Special Studies in Human Nutrition (taken each term to complement 222.861 – sign up with advisor to reflect the time spent in development of research ideas and thesis project)

1 – 4

2 – 6

222.642

Assessment of Nutritional Status

2

3

222.647

Nutrition Epidemiology

3

3

Elective Courses 2023-24

Course No.

Course Title

Term

Credits

Nutrition and Health

221.611

Food / Nutrition and Livelihood in Humanitarian Emergencies

3

3

222.649

International Nutrition

4

3

222.661

Designing Health Diets

4

2

222.652

Nutrition in Disease Treatment and Prevention (online only)

4

3

222.630

Nutrition, Infection, and Inflammation

4

3

700.630

Global Food Ethics

4

3

Research Methods

313.601

Economic Evaluation I

1

3

140.641

Survival Analysis I

1

3

330.657

Statistics for Psychosocial Research: Measurement

1

4

340.696

Spatial Analysis I: ArcGIS

1

3

224.690

Qualitative Research Theory and Methods

1, 3

5

224.691

Qualitative Research Data Analysis

2, 4

5

340.697

Spatial Analysis II: Spatial Data Technologies

2

2

140.658

Statistics for Psychosocial Research: Structural Methods

2

3

313.602

Economic Evaluation II

2

3

340.717

Health Survey Research Methods

2

4

221.645

Large Scale Effectiveness Evaluations of Programs

2

4

313.603

Economic Evaluation III

3

3

224.692

Formative Research for Behavioral and Community Interventions

3, 4

4

140.655

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

3

4

140.698

Spatial Analysis III: Spatial Statistics

3

4

223.664

Design and Conduct of Community Trials

3

4

140.699

Spatial Analysis IV: Spatial Design and Application

4

3

International Health and Disease

220.605

Doctoral Seminar in International Health I

1

3

221.654

Systems Thinking in Public Health: Applications of Key Methods and Approaches

2, 4

3

220.606

Doctoral Seminar in International Health II

2

3

221.627

Issues in the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in LMICs

2

4

223.663

Infectious Diseases and Child Survival

3

3

223.680

Global Disease Control Programs and Policies

4

4

Population, Behavior, and Health

380.604

Life Course Perspectives on Health

1, 2

4

380.611

Fundamentals of Program Evaluation

1, 3

4

224.689

Health Behavior Change at the Individual, Household, and Community Levels

2

4

380.642

Child Health and Development

2

3

380.600

Principles of Population Change

2

4

380.623

Adolescent Health and Development (online only)

3

3

Environmental Health, Food Production, Safety, and Food Systems

187.610

Public Health Toxicology

1, 2

4

180.620

Food Systems and Public Health

2

4

222.665

Planning for Food Systems and Public Health

3

3

180.635

Seafood and Public Health: Global Trade, Nutrition, and the Environment

3

2

182.640

Food and Water-Borne Diseases

3

3

180.601

Environmental Health (online only)

3

5

180.655

Baltimore Food Systems: A Case Study in Urban Food Environments

3

4

180.606

Case Studies in Food Production

4

4

180.644

Food System Resilience

4

3

308.660

Food Industry, Politics, and Public Health

4

3

222.664

Food Insecurity and Nutrition: Partnering with Community Organizations to Make Change

4

2

180.605

Food System Sustainability Practicum

4

3

185.600

One Health Tools to Promote and Evaluate Health and Sustainable Communities

4

3

Management Sciences

312.603

Fundamentals of Budgeting and Financial Management (online only)

1 – 4

3

Teaching

300.750

Teaching, Learning, and Leading

3

3

Thesis Research

After students have successfully completed their oral exams, they will be required to enroll in Thesis Research courses. Students will need to register for this course in each term until their degree is completed

Course No. Course Title  Term  Credits 
222.820 Thesis Research Human Nutrition  1-4 1-22