The Programme will extend over one academic year of two semesters. Each academic year will consist of two semesters with the First Semester starting in late August to late December. The Second Semester will start from mid-January to late June. A semester is 15 weeks, of which 12 weeks are used for teaching, 1 week for revision and 2 weeks for examinations.
Types of Courses
The first and second semesters will be devoted to both Core Courses and Elective Courses. At the end of the first semester, students will be required to embark on assigned field attachments to work with Agencies or Industries undertaking public health related activities. There will also be visits to areas of public health interest throughout the duration of the programme. Seminars will be organized on a variety of topics which will include student contributions as well as lectures by senior health personnel and academics from outside the main teaching staff.
Course Credits
Instructions shall be by courses, quantified into credit hours.
A credit hour is granted for a series of twelve contact hours or one contact hour per week per semester of twelve teaching weeks (revision and examination period not included
Programme Coding and Numbering Policy
1. The letter code of the course code is fixed at three
2. The numerical component of the course code is fixed at three
3. The first number represents the year of the programme.
4. The middle numeric character in the course code indicates whether the course is a core course or an elective course in the Master of Public Health degree programme
5. All Master of Public Health degree programmes start from 5.
6. Core courses for degree programmes are assigned 5, 7 or 9
7. Elective courses are assigned 6 or 8
8. The last numerical code indicates the semester in which the course is being offered. The codes are conveniently divided into odd numbers for the first semester and even numbers for the second semester; all between 1 and 9.
Course Outline
Year 1 Semester 1
CODE
COURSE NAME
T
P
C
MPH 551
Epidemiology
3
0
3
MPH 553
Biostatistics
3
0
3
MPH 555
Introduction to Public Health
3
0
3
MPH 557
Foundations of Health Promotion
3
0
3
MPH 559
Health Policy, Management and Leadership
3
0
3
MPH 571
Introduction to Communicable and Non-Communicable Disease Control
3
0
3
PHS 551
Public Health Seminar I***
3
0
3
Semester Total
18
0
18
Year 1 Semester 2
CODE
COURSE NAME
T
P
C
MPH 552
Environmental and Occupational Health
3
0
3
MPH 554
Research Design and Methodology
3
0
3
MPH 556
Public Health Program Planning and Evaluation
3
0
3
MPH 558
Family and Reproductive Health
3
0
3
MPH 572
Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health
2
0
2
MPH 562
Global Health*
2
0
2
MPH 566
Public Health Nutrition*
2
0
2
MPH 566
Disaster Management*
2
0
2
MPH 566
Health Economics*
2
0
2
MPH 566
Field Practicum **
2
0
2
MPH 566
Thesis/ Capstone**
0
3
3
MPH 566
Public Health Seminar II***
0
6
6
Semester Total
18
9
27
TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED
36
9
45
Note:
*This is an Elective course. A student is required to register for any two (2) of the Elective Courses before the end of the programme of study.
** The School of Graduate Studies at KNUST does not require Credit Hour assignment for Thesis and Field Practicum (Applied Practice Experience [A.P.E]) at the Post-graduate level. A student is required to have a PASS grade. Hence, the total credit hours for the programme per KNUST requirement is 36 total credits.
*** Public health seminars (PHS) are non-credited courses
A student is required to develop the Research Proposal while taking the Research Design and Methodology course. Data collection for Thesis work will be done at the end of the Second Semester.
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