Course Descriptions
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Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology

weekend Courses

Epid 701 Fundamentals of Biostatistics
(3 credit hours) Mark Hudes
This course will provide students with some of the tools necessary to compute sample and population statistics and to make inferences using them. Some of the topics to be covered will be descriptive statistics, probability, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, correlation and simple linear regression. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the assumptions made to perform some statistical techniques and what can be done if these assumptions are violated. The course will be based on lectures, homework and reading assignments and some class exercises. Hand calculators will be required. Prerequisite: General algebra.

Epid 709 Fundamentals of Epidemiology
(3 credit hours) Mary E. Hovinga
The course will provide participants with an understanding of basic concepts and methods of epidemiology. The course will familiarize students with specific methods and quantitative techniques for describing patterns of disease and for elucidating disease etiology. Applications of epidemiology to certain areas of public health such as screening as an approach to disease control, will be illustrated. The course will be based on lectures, discussions, assigned readings, and problem solving. Students are required to bring hand calculators to class. Prerequisite: Previous or concurrent course in introductory biostatistics is strongly recommended.

Epid 709D Fundamentals of Epidemiology (Distance Learning)
(3 credit hours) Mary E. Hovinga
New this year, the Graduate Summer Session is offering the opportunity to take this course at your home or office computer. You will be on-line simultaneously with the class (Epid 709 as listed above) with the capability of interacting directly with the instructor and class participants. What you will need: high speed internet connection, cable modem or better, computer with administrative rights and Windows XP, at least 512K of memory, microphone, optional webcam. Course enrollment is limited to 20.

Epid 729 Epidemiology in Public Health Practice
(3 credit hours) Philip S. Brachman
The course will emphasize the practical application of the principles of applied epidemiology to the investigation of public health problems. It will be focused at the public health practitioners whose responsibilities include epidemiological investigations of disease problems in the community as well as to others who are interested in a refresher course or entry level course in applied epidemiology. There will be presentations and discussions of applied epidemiology, field investigations, study design, public health surveillance, methods of control and prevention, surveys and sampling, and evaluation. Participants will work a number of cases studies prepared from actual field investigations that will extend the discussion of the above subjects. This allows a practical application in the classroom of the principles of epidemiology to the solution of disease problems. Selected diseases will be discussed that will emphasize the principles of epidemiology as applied to infectious and non-infectious diseases. Students are requested to bring hand calculators to class. No prerequisite.