BIOL 301 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: BIOL 104 and BIOL 119; or BIOL 203; and MATH 216 or MATH 217
Description: Introduces epidemiologic principles, concepts, and methods used to study the distribution and determinants of diseases in populations. Includes public health and clinical applications. Covers the history of epidemiology, dynamics of disease transmission, measures of disease frequency and association, study designs, causation, and also considers ethics and public policy issues in epidemiology. Offered: (Offered as BIOL 460 before 2016-17.)