Population, Health and Place (MS)

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The Master of Science in Population, Health and Place trains students for applied professional research in geospatial public health, led by faculty from the USC Dornsife Department of Sociology, the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute. Students do not complete a thesis but take courses in various modeling and computation approaches in demography, biostatics, epidemiology and spatial sciences.

Required Course Work (10 units)

Electives (20 units)

Students must complete five of the following courses.

PM 510L Principles of Biostatistics Units: 4
PM 512 Principles of Epidemiology Units: 4
PM 529 Environmental Health: An Epidemiological Approach Units: 4
SOCI 625 Demographic Methods Units: 4
SOCI 656 Social Demography Units: 4
SOCI 658 Sociology of Health and Medicine Units: 4
SSCI 680 Advanced Spatial Computing Units: 4
SSCI 683 Principles of Spatial Data Analysis Units: 4
SSCI 684 Spatial Modeling with GIS Units: 4

Population, Health and Place (MS)

Required Course Work (10 units)

Electives (20 units)

Total Units: 30