H425 is required for undergraduate public health majors and radiation health physics majors, among others.\u00a0 Additionally, some students planning allied health careers (e.g., medical school, physical therapy school, etc.) take it as an elective.<\/p>\n
EPIDEMIOLOGY (root:\u00a0 epidemic) is the study of the distribution and determinants of health in human populations, and the application of that study to improve human health.\u00a0 In other words, if we can figure out why these<\/em> people get sick, but those<\/em> people don’t, then that gives us a clue as to how future cases of the disease might be prevented.<\/p>\n H425 is currently set up as lecture\/recitation.\u00a0 All students (~150 per term) enroll in a 1-hour large lecture that happens on Mondays, and also for a 2-hour small group (n=25-30) recitation that occurs sometime later in the week. To no one’s surprise, students and instructors all quite like the small groups, and no one likes the big lecture. Room for improvement?\u00a0 You bet.<\/p>\n To “hybridize” this class, we are moving lecture material online, and keeping the small groups essentially untouched.\u00a0 Thus, beginning Winter 2018, students will be responsible for weekly online\/self-taught material–the material that used to be covered in assigned readings and large lecture will now be delivered via variety of online methods (readings, videos, mini lectures, Canvas discussions, etc).\u00a0 Students will be expected to complete each week’s online material by Monday night.<\/p>\n Then the small group in-person classes will continue as they have been–why fix something that isn’t broken?\u00a0 In these small groups (taught by TAs; they meet T, W, or Th), students do a variety of activities to reinforce learning:<\/p>\n Having taught this class now more than a dozen times, I believe that the hybrid environment will truly be the best of both worlds for H425.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" H425 is required for undergraduate public health majors and radiation health physics majors, among others.\u00a0 Additionally, some students planning allied health careers (e.g., medical school, physical therapy school, etc.) take it as an elective. EPIDEMIOLOGY (root:\u00a0 epidemic) is the study … Continue reading \n