 This class is about epidemiology, which is the study of health and disease, particularly looking at things like incidents, distribution, and possible control. Looking at diseases in a particular population, so looking at the incidents in a population, the distribution of the disease in the population, as well as how to control the spread of that disease in a population. In this course we'll be looking at these populations, looking at methods of disease infection as and other health factors, and we'll be doing that through things like looking at patterns of illness, we'll do some visual assessment using online tools and in our online weekend, we'll also be looking at mode of infection of different diseases, and of course we'll be analyzing symptoms of disease. In this course looking at health and disease, we're talking about things like viruses, bacteria, and other microbes, and pathogens that can cause disease. We'll also be looking at genetic factors in health assessments such as the incidence of cancer or heart disease in a population, and students will come away doing all of this using things like written assessments, projects, and other group assignments that will help assess their understanding of epidemiological topics.