Apr 20, 2026  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HPD 521 - Introduction to Clinical Research


This seminar series course provides a broad-based introduction to the fields of population health and clinical science research. This course will prepare participants to become critical consumers of the peer-reviewed literature. Class lectures will cover a wide range of topics, which include: framing a research question, formulating a research hypothesis, evaluating the peer-reviewed literature, exploring study design options, conducting human subjects’ research ethically/responsibly, selecting clinical outcomes, and evaluating analytical alternatives.

1 credit

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Offered Summer



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