Postgraduate Course: Animal disease survey design and analysis (INAH11019)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Biomedical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course type	Online Distance Learning	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course aims to build on the concepts introduced in the year 1 course Applied epidemiology and surveillance to provide greater understanding of animal disease survey design and analysis.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None
Additional Costs	Students will be required to have regular access to a networked computer and will be responsible for providing their own computing equipment/consumables.

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Flexible
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 10, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10, Online Activities 25, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 53 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Formal summative written assessment will constitute 60% of the student's grade. Online discussion in both a synchronous and asynchronous environment will contribute further to the final mark. In combination with the submission of electronic course assignments, these elements will provide the remaining 40% of the final mark.
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this course, the candidate should: - Know the effects of sampling variability, clustering, stratification and weighting on survey design and analysis, and know how to adjust for them; - Be able to use CSurvey and Epi Info software to design a veterinary field survey; - Be able to analyse data from a veterinary field survey, using Epi Info and WinPepi software.