EPIDEM 201Introduction to Epidemiology
Epidemiology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to concepts of epidemiology including evaluating public health problems in terms of magnitude, person, time, and place; critiquing epidemiologic studies; identifying and accessing key sources of data for epidemiologic assessment; using epidemiologic methods and calculating basic epidemiology measures for operational purposes; and communicating basic principles of epidemiology such as definitions of populations, sources of bias, causation for morbidity and mortality, risk and protective factors, and basics of study design.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EPIDEM 201
- COM HLT 200CProgram Planning, Research, and Evaluation in Community Health Sciences
- COM HLT 212Advanced Social Research Methods in Health
- COM HLT 214Issues in Program Evaluation
- COM HLT 236Bridging Research and Practice in Public Health: Using Implementation Science to Achieve Health Equity
- COM HLT 254Intentional Disasters: War and Refugees
- COM HLT 257Program Planning in Community Disaster Preparedness
- COM HLT 482Practicum: Community Health Sciences
- COM HLT 484Risk Communications
- COM HLT 485Resource Development for Community Health Programs
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 9 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.