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Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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USP 321 - Infectious Disease and Epidemiology

Credits: 4
This course will bring students of multiple pre health and public health profession tracks to the essential understandings of fundamental immunology and the etiology and epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases of global health. This course will provide undergraduate scientific understanding to the global health seminar and practicum experiences of field placements within a didactic and discussion based classroom experience. This course is organized into three (3) blocks, which will investigate different aspects of the fundamentals of immunology as it relates to infectious disease and global health. Each week will contain assigned readings from the texts, with supplemental handouts. Each day of class subsequent to the first day of class will have a quiz, each block will end with an exam, and the course culminates with a comprehensive final exam. 

Prerequisite(s): BIO 150  or score of 5 on the AP Biology exam.
Corequisite(s): Available only to students participating in the BestSemester Uganda Studies Program.



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