Role of constitution, legislatures, agencies, courts, and public in shaping public health policy. Includes Constitutional authority, limits on governmental intervention, tensions between protecting society's interests and preserving individual rights, reading legal documents, recognizing legal issues, communicating with attorneys, and strategies to increase public understanding and influence on laws affecting health.

Course includes community assessment; program development, implementation, and evaluation; budget development; eligibility and services available through existing programs; cultural foodways; and the intersection of public policy and nutrition.

Provides in depth coverage of research methods and techniques commonly applied in the areas of safety science, safety management, occupational safety, occupational health and injury and illness prevention. Emphasis on developing the capacity to critically interpret, evaluate and apply findings from the research literature in appropriate contexts.

The intermediate course in analytic epidemiology methods will focus on interpretation of findings, study design, analytic approach, and results. Students will be introduced to different viewpoints regarding controversial approaches to study design, analysis and interpretation and will complete exercises involving critiques of published work and analysis of existing data.

Causal inference from observational data is a key task of epidemiology. This course will first present the concepts underlying causal theory and then show how epidemiologic concepts and methods introduced in E658 and E659 can be understood within this general framework. Epidemiologic concepts such as confounding, comparability, overall effects, direct effects, intermediate variables, selection bias, and information bias will be formally defined within the context of counterfactual theory.

Beginning instruction in the principles of fitness through a cycling program. Fitness testing will be done and cardiovascular training will be emphasized. Proper riding technique, safety, and other features of competitive and recreational cycling will be discussed. Lecture only.

Instruction in the basic ground fighting techniques, throwing, joint locks, chokes, and some self-defense derived from Caique Brazilian Ju-Jitsu. Students should achieve rudimentary technical skill and learn the philosophy and concepts used in ground-fighting martial art practice as well as applying these concepts to competitive ground fighting. Focus is placed on body posturing, position control, flow-drills, and submission techniques.