Epidemiology

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Define epidemiology and understand its role in community health education.
• Explain fundamental epidemiologic concepts.
• Calculate and differentiate various measures of disease occurrence and surveillance.
• Identify the five major epidemiologic study designs and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
• Examine and appraise published epidemiologic studies.
• Conclude health education needs based on collected data.
• Assess associations between factors and diseases.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Concept and term map	200 points
Reading assignments (weekly or biweekly)	200 points
Homework Assignments (4)	400 points
Exams (2)	200 points

Your final scores will be broken down and calculated based on the following components.

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
> 93-100%	A
90-92.9%	A-
87.0-89.9%	B+
83.0-86.9%	B
80.0-82.9%	B-
77.0-79.9%	C+
73.0-76.9%	C
70.0-72.9%	C-
67.0-69.9%	D+
63.0-66.9%	D
60.0-62.9%	D-
<60.0%	F

Attendance/Participation:

All students are expected to attend each class and stay for the whole class.

Attendance may be taken during selected classes through the concept and term map assignment.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Aschengrau, A., & Seage, G. R. (2013). Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. - Hardcover, Softcover, or Digital