308418 (v.1) Environmental Epidemiology and Research Methods 681

Area:	School of Public Health
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Individual Study:	1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Understand basic statistical methods and their application in environmental exposure assessment including Chi-square test, correlation, t-tests, and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Basic principles and concepts of descriptive and analytical epidemiology. Epidemiological studies including ecological, time-series and panel studies; selected examples. Case studies. Collecting and evaluating of environmental health information. Limitations and errors in human exposure assessment. Surveillance and epidemiology of communicable disease.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	061303 Environmental Health
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Fully Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1		Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2		Y
2010	Open University HK	Trimester 1A	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External