These courses are intended for undergraduates and not as substitutes for graduate courses, although they may enable students to enter more rigorous graduate-level courses. They are designed to be part of general education and to fulfill LEAP learning outcomes. The Consensus Conference outlined a series of specific recommendations for Epidemiology 101 that highlight the uniquely undergraduate focus that is intended. Epidemiology 101 should be designed to encourage students to see epidemiology as a way of thinking and a way of learning generalizable principles of the scientific method. .
