As part of the University of Washington’s School of Public Health MPH Common Core, HSPop MPH students complete all of the following required courses side-by-side with MPH students across all UW SPH departments.

PHI 511: Foundations of Public Health
Autumn Quarter | 3 Credits

PHI 512: Analytic Skills for Public Health I
Autumn Quarter | 7 Credits

PHI 513: Analytic Skills for Public Health II
Winter Quarter | 3 Credits

PHI 514: Determinants of Health
Winter Quarter | 3 Credits

PHI 515: Implementing Public Health Interventions
Spring Quarter | 4 Credits

PHI 516: Public Health Practice
Spring Quarter | 3 Credits

HSPop MPH students are required to take two quarters of program seminar (offered autumn and spring).

HSERV 592: Program Seminar

The practicum is a planned, supervised, and evaluated field-based experience (a minimum of 160-hour work) under the guidance of a site supervisor and a faculty adviser within a public health organization. The practicum provides students an opportunity to apply the disciplinary knowledge, methods, and values they learned in the MPH classroom to a professional, public or private public health environment such as nonprofit organizations, hospitals, local or state health departments, or for-profit firms. 

HSERV 595: Practicum

Example practicum projects

Learn More about the MPH Practicum

Choose a thesis OR capstone as the culminating project.

HSERV 700: Thesis | HSERV 599: Capstone Project

Learn about thesis and capstone

Review the HSERV course catalog (levels 500+) to find elective/methods credits within the HSPop department. Students may also take courses outside of the department.

The number of electives/methods will depend on each students’ concentration.

• Generalist – 5 courses (~23 credits)
• HSP – 3 courses (~15 credits)
• SBS – 2 courses (~11 credits)