CLASS PLAN
SPRING 2001
Epidemiology 414
Practical Epidemiologic Investigations
(Web Technologies for the
Epidemiologist)
UCLA - School of Public
Health
Department of Epidemiology
WEEK 1
Lab: Introduction to Internet, including L.A. County Public
Health's Web Page, Download and installing software from the Web. Subscribe to
classes Listserv, set-up sample Web Page on your own Web site using Additional
Concepts: hypertext-links,
Mail Servers, domain names, IP addresses
WEEK 2
Lab: Start developing Web site, work directly in HTML source code and
work with Front Page editor. Head and Body elements. Formatting text with tags, tables.
Establishing hypertext links, ordered and unordered lists, applying background
colors and patterns, setting text fonts, colors and styles, define relative and
absolute anchors. Making your pages graphical with embedded images. Making
images 'clickable', showing text on mouse-over image.
Additional Concepts: Configuring browsers. Introduction to History of Internet and
HTML. The Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), TCP/IP. Building a Web page
with HTML, the HTML Language, Adding graphic elements.
WEEK 3
Lab: Formating with Tables. Using Frames. Forms: Capturing user input with HTML forms. Form elements,
text & check boxes, radio buttons, drop-down menus, submit, reset. File
Compression. Upload and Link PDF and ZIP files to sample Web site.
Additional Concepts: Forms on the Web, Overview Using CGI (ASP, CF, etc.) to process
form input. Programming on the sever, Interfacing to a database Management
System.
WEEK 4
Lab: Demonstrate and Work on any Tags not clear during the
chapter-by-chapter review of 1-11 Setup
Email (filters, sigantures, group
email, etc.)
Cookies, NewsGroups, Threading;
Chats; ICQ
Additional Concepts: Creating Dynamic Web Pages. Adding special effects,
Shockwave, VRML.
WEEK 5
Lab: Field Structures, Design/Create/Edit database
Tables, Printing
Additional Concepts: Dynamic Web enabled Concepts Cold Fusion, ASP
WEEK 6
mid-term Quiz
Lab: Create/Design Forms
Additional Concepts: Web enabled Applications ASP
WEEK 7
Lab: Database
Basics, Designing Tables, Relational databases
Additional Concepts: Sorts, Queries
WEEK 8
Lab: Publishing Documents
on Web Using Adobe Acrobat,
Additional Concepts: Image Editing using Adobe Photoshop,
Advanced Queries, Creating Reports
Additional Concepts: Analysis, Relational Data Bases
WEEK 9
Lab: Advanced Database
Additional Concepts: Creating Reports, Analysis, Relational Data Bases
WEEK 10
Project Due
Lab: GIS, Mapping
Additional Concepts: Data Warehousing