EPID600 (Fall 2009) Case study on
Introduction to Epidemiology 600

Case Study Questions (View instructions)

(NOTE: For some of these questions there may not be one "right answer".)

This case study is an exception to the general rule. For this case study, every member of the class should submit answers to the starred questions, and groups do not submit answers.

Read the pages "About the case studies" and "Collaboration guidelines". (See Instructions for this module, linked above.)

  **1. Are students supposed to write up their answers to the case study questions? Must these answers be submitted by webform? (Explain briefly.)

  **2. Do the small groups discuss and submit answers to all case study questions or only to case study questions marked with an asterisk (*)? (Explain briefly.)

  **3. May students work together on case study answers before the group discussion begins? May students work with students in other groups? (Explain briefly.)

  *4. Have you received some or all of the EPID600 course materials from a prior semester? If yes, please give the name(s) of the person who gave or sold them to you.

  *5. Do you have or have you received instructor answers to EPID600 case studies? If so, what have you done with them?

  6. Students and instructors in EPID600 go by our first names. If you go by something other than your formal first name as shown on the class roll (which comes from the official University records), what would you like us to call you? The computer program that extracts your answer will read the first word you give as your preferred name (please use correct capitalization). So if you wish to elaborate, please precede the explanation with a semi-colon. (If you go by your formal first name, you may just leave this answer blank or begin it with a semicolon.)

  7. If the instructors should have occasion to refer to you in the third person, which pronouns are appropriate? (Please copy and paste the correct selection into the answer box so that the computer program will easily recognize it. No comment is requested, but should you wish to include one please precede it with a semicolon.)

  1. She, hers, her
  2. He, his, him

  8. To help the instructors and others in the class know something about who is taking it this semester, please give a brief introduction of yourself that the instructors may share with the class. These answers will be posted in Blackboard and thus be available to all (and only) persons with access to the Blackboard course website for this class. Access is provided to all enrolled members of the class, including auditors and instructors, to students completing a grade of IN from a previous class, and occasionally to faculty from other universities who have requested permission to view our Blackboard web site.

  9. The email address listed for you in the UNC directory (http://directory.unc.edu) is included in the class roll and also used for all emails sent through Blackboard. If you wish to change that address, you must do so via the UNC directory (changing your email address in Blackboard does not work). If that address will vanish when you leave UNC but you would like be able to receive occasional emails from Vic, please provide a “persistent” email address here.

10. If you use other email addresses as well, please provide them here, separated by commas, since sometimes messages arrive without a name.


 

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