2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog / Courses / HPE - Health and Physical Education / 400 / HPE 450
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(Also listed as HWM 450) Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease and other health events in a population. This course will discuss the general field of epidemiology, but will focus on behavioral epidemiology, specifically the field of physical activity epidemiology. Students in this course will learn how the methods of epidemiology are being used to scientifically confirm that physical inactivity is a burden on public health and what can be done about it.