PUB HLT C150
Fundamentals of Public Health
Description: (Formerly numbered 150.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Limited to nonmajors. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 50A. Exploration of foundations of public health by examining public health challenges at local, national, and global levels, and current strategies for advancing population health. Analysis of current public health issues and modern public health policies and practices. May be concurrently scheduled with course C201. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2024 - This class is a very easy A. Grading scheme is: participation 15%, midterm 30%, op ed assignment 15%, final (not cumulative) 40%. She offers a few easy extra credit points throughout the quarter, as well as an op-ed revision option. Participation consists of 2 discussion posts for each half of the course on a public health topic, and you can get extra credit by posting 1 additional post for each 1/2 of the course. Exams are open note/internet and can be either taken in the lecture hall or proctored with camera on over zoom. There is also no discussion section for this class, even though there is a discussion listed in MyUCLA. Dr. Shafir is very nice, funny, and a great lecturer, but she does fly through slides pretty quickly. She also gave out a couple PTEs for the class. I would recommend at least skimming through the readings, because some (maybe 2-3 per test) exam questions asked specific things from the readings (kind of just like what the main point was from a certain reading; nothing too detailed) that were not mentioned in lecture. Exams were about 45 multiple choice/true or false/matching questions and you had about an hour to take each exam. Conceptually, this class is easy, the workload is low, and exams are extremely fair. I would highly recommend this class if you need an easy A and/or are intersted in public health.
Fall 2024 - This class is a very easy A. Grading scheme is: participation 15%, midterm 30%, op ed assignment 15%, final (not cumulative) 40%. She offers a few easy extra credit points throughout the quarter, as well as an op-ed revision option. Participation consists of 2 discussion posts for each half of the course on a public health topic, and you can get extra credit by posting 1 additional post for each 1/2 of the course. Exams are open note/internet and can be either taken in the lecture hall or proctored with camera on over zoom. There is also no discussion section for this class, even though there is a discussion listed in MyUCLA. Dr. Shafir is very nice, funny, and a great lecturer, but she does fly through slides pretty quickly. She also gave out a couple PTEs for the class. I would recommend at least skimming through the readings, because some (maybe 2-3 per test) exam questions asked specific things from the readings (kind of just like what the main point was from a certain reading; nothing too detailed) that were not mentioned in lecture. Exams were about 45 multiple choice/true or false/matching questions and you had about an hour to take each exam. Conceptually, this class is easy, the workload is low, and exams are extremely fair. I would highly recommend this class if you need an easy A and/or are intersted in public health.
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