Provides epidemiology majors with supervised experience in teaching and course preparation. Students act as assistants in departmental courses. Two to eight seminar hours a week. Contemporary findings, methodologic issues, and research recommendations in cardiovascular epidemiology. Topics include risk factors, trends, interventions and health care.
Students critique research and participate in a field research.
Three lecture hours per week. This course builds the foundation for critical evaluation of the nutritional epidemiologic literature. Three lecture hours per week. Stevens , Arab . Examines epidemiologic research on the causes, consequences, and prevention of obesity.