GEOG-4074: Medical Geography of Infectious Diseases
Description: Examination of geographic patterns of infectious diseases and underlying explanatory processes at spatial scales ranging from global to local. Interactions between natural and social environments and their contributions to infectious disease burdens. Human health impacts of climate variability and change. Application of theories such as landscape epidemiology and methods in medical geography and the social sciences to understanding disease emergence events and pandemics. Examination of role of environmental change and human migration on disease diffusion patterns. Analysis of major factors related to HIV/AIDS epidemic that explain the disease's spatial and spatio-temporal pattern in different social and cultural settings. Pre: Junior standing.
Pathways: 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 25
Average GPA: 3.43 (A-)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 47.96%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.30%
| Stacy B Boyer | 2012 | 97.0% | 1.8% | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.0% | 3.94 | 5 |
| Korine N Kolivras | 2024 | 49.2% | 38.2% | 9.2% | 1.8% | 1.2% | 0.4% | 3.30 | 20 |