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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2422yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Welcome to the Course
  • Obesity, The Facts of the Case (Or Why Obesity Pushes Our Buttons) - Tom Glass
  • Beyond the Usual Suspect: Why This Case Is Hard To Crack
  • Explanations: The Food Supply, A System of Interest
  • Obesity in Human Populations Through a Systems Science Lens - Tom Glass
  • Taking a Systems Perspective: 5 Key Features
  • What is so "Systemy" About Obesity?
Practice exercise
  • Module 1

Videos
  • What Is a Complex System?
  • Nuts and Bolts of System Dynamics Models
  • Developing a Stock and Flow Model
  • Policy Resistance
  • Coding tutorial for systems dynamics model
  • From stock and flow diagram to developing a SD model in Vensim
Reading
  • Important: Models for Lab Assessment
Practice exercise
  • Module 2 Quiz
  • Lab 1 Quiz

Videos
  • What Are Social Networks?
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Obesity & Social Networks
  • Neighborhoods and Noshing: Foraging and the Food Environment
  • Why Should We Care About Neighborhoods for a Systems Science of Obesity
  • Foraging Theory: A Unifying Framework?
  • Lecture 6: What's price (and income) got to do with it?
  • Less money, more problems?
  • Taxman: Can Price Manipulations Be Used to Promote Healthful Eating
Practice exercise
  • Module 3 Quiz

Videos
  • Agent-based modeling: A simpler way to understand complexity
  • Why agent-based modeling?
  • Development of a Simple Model with Environment, Peer Networks, and Agent Behaviors
  • Food Foraging ABM:Embedded in a GIS-Based Environment
  • Lab 2 Part 1: Tutorial on building ABMs in Netlogo environment
  • Lab 2 Part 2: ABM for Food Store; Food Foraging ABM
  • Lab 2 Part 3: Income-Diet model example with extensions
  • Congratulations!
Readings
  • Important: Models For Lab Assessment 2
  • Learn more about the Global Obesity Prevention Center
Practice exercise
  • Module 4 Quiz
  • Lab Quiz 2

Articles

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