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 |
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General Degree Requirements |
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Academic and Research Ethics at BSPH |
1 |
0 |
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Doctoral Independent Goals Analysis (IGA) |
1 |
1 |
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Graduate Nutrition Seminar |
1 – 4 |
1 |
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International Travel Preparation, Safety, and Wellness (only take once) |
2, 3, 4 |
1 |
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Epidemiology Requirement (choose one option) |
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Option 1 |
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Epidemiologic Inference in Public Health I |
1 |
5 |
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Epidemiologic Inference in Public Health II |
2 |
5 |
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Option 2 |
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Epidemiologic Methods I |
1 |
5 |
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Epidemiologic Methods II |
2 |
5 |
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Epidemiologic Methods III |
3 |
5 |
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Biostatistics Requirement (choose one option) |
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Option 1 |
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Statistical Methods in Public Health I |
1 |
4 |
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Statistical Methods in Public Health II |
2 |
4 |
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Statistical Methods in Public Health III |
3 |
4 |
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Statistical Methods in Public Health IV |
4 |
4 |
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Option 2 |
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Methods in Biostatistics I |
1 |
4 |
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Methods in Biostatistics II |
2 |
4 |
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Methods in Biostatistics III |
3 |
4 |
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Methods in Biostatistics IV |
4 |
4 |
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Ethics Requirement (choose one of the following) |
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Living Science Ethics Responsible Conduct of Research |
1, 4 |
2 |
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Research Ethics and Integrity: US and International Issues |
3 |
3 |
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Additionally, students are required to complete the CITI Training Module |
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Nutrition and Health |
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Principles of Human Nutrition in Public Health |
1 |
4 |
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Food and Nutrition Policy |
1 |
2 |
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Critical Thinking in Nutrition I |
1 |
1 |
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Nutrition and Life Stages |
3 |
3 |
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Food, Culture, and Nutrition |
4 |
4 |
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Environment and Health (choose one option) |
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Option 1 |
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Doctoral Seminar in International Health I |
1 |
3 |
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Option 2 |
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Food and Water-Borne Diseases |
3 |
3 |
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Option 3 |
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Essentials of Environmental Health |
1 – 3 |
0.5 |
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Essentials of One Health |
1, 4 |
0.5 |
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Biochemistry and Metabolism |
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Intro to Biomedical Sciences (8-week online course taken over the Summer before 1st term) |
S |
4 |
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Cellular Biochemistry of Nutrients |
2 |
3 |
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Nutrients in Biological Systems |
3 |
2 |
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Research Methods |
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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 |
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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 |
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Assessment of Nutritional Status |
2 |
3 |
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Nutrition Epidemiology |
3 |
3 |
Elective Courses 2023-24
Course No. |
Course Title |
Term |
Credits |
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Nutrition and Health |
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Food / Nutrition and Livelihood in Humanitarian Emergencies |
3 |
3 |
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International Nutrition |
4 |
3 |
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Designing Health Diets |
4 |
2 |
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Nutrition in Disease Treatment and Prevention (online only) |
4 |
3 |
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Nutrition, Infection, and Inflammation |
4 |
3 |
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Global Food Ethics |
4 |
3 |
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Research Methods |
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Economic Evaluation I |
1 |
3 |
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Survival Analysis I |
1 |
3 |
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Statistics for Psychosocial Research: Measurement |
1 |
4 |
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Spatial Analysis I: ArcGIS |
1 |
3 |
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Qualitative Research Theory and Methods |
1, 3 |
5 |
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Qualitative Research Data Analysis |
2, 4 |
5 |
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Spatial Analysis II: Spatial Data Technologies |
2 |
2 |
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Statistics for Psychosocial Research: Structural Methods |
2 |
3 |
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Economic Evaluation II |
2 |
3 |
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Health Survey Research Methods |
2 |
4 |
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Large Scale Effectiveness Evaluations of Programs |
2 |
4 |
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Economic Evaluation III |
3 |
3 |
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Formative Research for Behavioral and Community Interventions |
3, 4 |
4 |
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Analysis of Longitudinal Data |
3 |
4 |
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Spatial Analysis III: Spatial Statistics |
3 |
4 |
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Design and Conduct of Community Trials |
3 |
4 |
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Spatial Analysis IV: Spatial Design and Application |
4 |
3 |
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International Health and Disease |
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Doctoral Seminar in International Health I |
1 |
3 |
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Systems Thinking in Public Health: Applications of Key Methods and Approaches |
2, 4 |
3 |
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Doctoral Seminar in International Health II |
2 |
3 |
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Issues in the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in LMICs |
2 |
4 |
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Infectious Diseases and Child Survival |
3 |
3 |
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Global Disease Control Programs and Policies |
4 |
4 |
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Population, Behavior, and Health |
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Life Course Perspectives on Health |
1, 2 |
4 |
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Fundamentals of Program Evaluation |
1, 3 |
4 |
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Health Behavior Change at the Individual, Household, and Community Levels |
2 |
4 |
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Child Health and Development |
2 |
3 |
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Principles of Population Change |
2 |
4 |
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Adolescent Health and Development (online only) |
3 |
3 |
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Environmental Health, Food Production, Safety, and Food Systems |
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Public Health Toxicology |
1, 2 |
4 |
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Food Systems and Public Health |
2 |
4 |
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Planning for Food Systems and Public Health |
3 |
3 |
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Seafood and Public Health: Global Trade, Nutrition, and the Environment |
3 |
2 |
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Food and Water-Borne Diseases |
3 |
3 |
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Environmental Health (online only) |
3 |
5 |
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Baltimore Food Systems: A Case Study in Urban Food Environments |
3 |
4 |
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Case Studies in Food Production |
4 |
4 |
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Food System Resilience |
4 |
3 |
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Food Industry, Politics, and Public Health |
4 |
3 |
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Food Insecurity and Nutrition: Partnering with Community Organizations to Make Change |
4 |
2 |
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Food System Sustainability Practicum |
4 |
3 |
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One Health Tools to Promote and Evaluate Health and Sustainable Communities |
4 |
3 |
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Management Sciences |
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Fundamentals of Budgeting and Financial Management (online only) |
1 – 4 |
3 |
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Teaching |
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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 |
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222.820 | Thesis Research Human Nutrition | 1-4 | 1-22 |