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2022-2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Health Behavior Science and Promotion (PhD)


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Program Educational Goals:


  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the distribution of key health conditions and behaviors and how they may vary based on demographic and geographic factors.
  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the complex interplay between multi-level determinants of health and disease.
  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the theories of health behavior change and their application.
  • Students will be profocient in the design, implementation, interpretation and dissemination of pragmatic and rigorous program evaluation strategies
  • Students will demonstrate written proficiency of the literature in a health behavior science and promotion-related content area.
  • Students will demonstrate oral proficiency of the literature in a health behavior science and promotion-related content area.
  • The student will demonstrate the ability to: (1) generate and code summary variables; (2) code and run appropriate descriptive, bivariate, and multivariable models; (3) interpret output for descriptive, bivariate, and multivariable models.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to identify and answer a novel research question.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate audience-appropriate content in writing.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to verbally present scientific results in a scholarly setting.

Requirements for the Degree:


The Health Behavior Science and Promotion PhD program requires successful completion of a minimum of 48 credit hours, completion of a preliminary examination, dissertation proposal defense, dissertation defense, and at publishable paper. The HBSP PhD is designed to be completed over a 4-year period.

Statistics/Data Analysis Electives:


Electives are approved by the Advisor (9 credits)

Restricted Elective:


Electives are approved by the advisor (3 credits)

Research:


6 credits

Dissertation:


9 credits

Credits to Total a Minimum of 48


Last Revised 2022-2023 Academic Year


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