NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing

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Epidemiology

Location: 966 SPHPI; Phone: (312) 996-8860. For each course in biostatistics and epidemiology, first priority in enrollment will be given to public health students and other students who require the course to fulfill their graduate or professional degree requirements. Other graduate, professional and advanced undergraduate students who meet the prerequisites may be admitted by school approval as space permits.

EPID     400            Principles of Epidemiology
         3 hours.
        Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in BSTT 400 or consent of the instructor. Enrollment restricted to public health students; other graduate, professional, and advanced undergraduate students admitted by consent as space permits. To obtain consent, see the SPH registrar.   Restricted to Nursing, Public Health, Public Health (DrPH), and Public Health (MPH).  To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Lecture-Discussion and one Lecture. 

EPID     403            Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods
         3 hours.
         May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in BSTT 400 and graduate or professional standing; or consent of the instructor. Restricted to Graduate College, and School of Public Health.  

EPID     406            Epidemiologic Computing
         2 hours.
         Prerequisite(s): BSTT 400 and EPID 400; or BSTT 400 and EPID 403; or consent of the instructor.    To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Laboratory-Discussion and one Lecture-Discussion. 

EPID     428            Epidemiology of Violence
         2 hours.
        Prerequisite(s): EPID 400 or consent of the instructor.    

EPID     494            Introductory Special Topics in Epidemiology
         1 TO 4 hours.
       Meets 17-OCT-05 - 02-DEC-05.  May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): EPID 400 or EPID 403 or consent of instructor; and graduate or professional standing.   

EPID     501            Advanced Quantitative Methods in Epidemiology
         3 hours.
        Prerequisite(s): EPID 401 and BSTT 401; or consent of the instructor.   Instructor Approval Required 

EPID     510            Advanced Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
         2 hours.
       Meets 22-AUG-05 - 14-OCT-05. Prerequisite(s): EPID 410 or consent of instructor.    

EPID     515            Cancer Epidemiology
         3 hours.
        Prerequisite(s): EPID 401 and EPID 411; or consent of the instructor.    

EPID     520            Genetics in Epidemiology
         2 hours.
        Prerequisite(s): EPID 401 or consent of the instructor.    

EPID     549            Advanced Applied Methods in MCH Epidemiology
         3 hours.
         Same as CHSC 549. Prerequisite(s): EPID 402 or EPID 404; and BSTT 401and EPID 406; or consent of the instructor. Recommended background: Credit or concurrent registration in EPID 501.   

EPID     591            Current Epidemiologic Literature
         2 hours.
       Meets 17-OCT-05 - 02-DEC-05. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): EPID 401 or EPID 403 or consent of instructor.   

EPID     595            Epidemiology Research Seminar
         1 hours.
        Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in EPID 400 or EPID 403 or consent of the instructor.