MODELING COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR   [Archived Catalog]
2018-2019 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
   

BCHS 2999 - MODELING COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will learn how to create dynamic models of health behavior in social context. We will study social ecological models of individual and collective action emphasizing the collective properties such as cooperation and policy resistance that often emerge. Students will learn how to: apply these models to plan and evaluate health interventions and policy; use systems thinking to model health problems; use simple software to create agent models; interpret results and describe public health implications.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade


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