This course is for undergraduate students who learned English as an additional language. Giving effective presentations requires a mastery of a broad range of skills. Students will develop skills as diverse as choosing an appropriate topic, creating effective visuals, and designing a speech opening. The overall goal of this course is to develop an awareness and use of common speech types and organizational strategies and to prepare university-level students to deliver presentations in an academic setting.

Increases the size and expands the range of vocabulary of advanced ESL students for academic writing, speaking, and listening. Develops fluency through study and practice of lexical phrases. Promotes mastery of the University Word List, developed by researchers, of the most frequently found words in authentic texts in various academic disciplines.

Develops oral communication skills of advanced ESL students for academic formal presentations and informal discussion. Builds confidence and improves intelligibility through focus on English sounds, rhythm, stress, and intonation. Provides guidance and feedback for the attainment of an expert level of second language speaking and listening proficiency.

Develops oral communication skills of advanced ESL students for academic formal presentations and informal discussion. Builds confidence and improves intelligibility through focus on English sounds, rhythm, stress, and intonation. Provides guidance and feedback for the attainment of an expert level of second language speaking and listening proficiency.

A methodologic core course. Details of concepts and quantitative techniques used in modern epidemiology.

Students will develop fundamental skills in epidemiologic data analysis and interpretation. A major emphasis will be to gain practical experience in analyzing epidemiologic data using statistical software.

Scientific research is fascinating. This course is designed to introduce you to ethical issues in conducting research involving human subjects and to explore the historic exploitation of marginalized populations. We will read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks which tells the true story of Lacks, an African American tobacco farmer whose cells were taken without her consent. Case studies will be used to explore other ethical issues in research, such as conflicts of interest and new coronavirus challenge studies.

Special investigational or research problems for MPH candidates or advanced students. Scope of the work can be varied to meet specified conditions.