Demography Courses Fall 2012
Introduction to Demography - 19008 - DCP 70100 - GC
GC: R, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., 3 credits, Professor Jenn Dowd
This course will review the demographic, social, and economic determinants of fertility, health, mortality and related demographic aspects, and the effects of population size, composition, and structure on social and economic conditions. Each week will focus on the predominant themes in these subareas of demography. Topics will include, among others: demographic transition; aging and mortality; fertility, family planning, and reproductive health; urbanization; migration; family demography to include marriage, living arrangements, and family structure; population and environment; consequences of population growth for economic development; and the demographic future.
Selected Topics in Demography: Spatial Demography - 19009 - DCP 80300 - GC
GC: R, 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m., 3 credits, Professor Deborah Balk
This course provides an overview of spatial themes and techniques in demography. Examples will be drawn from many substantive areas (e.g., mortality, fertility, urbanization, migration, poverty). Students will learn about spatial construction of place, basic mapping skills and spatial data creation as well as statistical methods to explore and model spatially-referenced data to answer demographic questions. In the most advanced topics, students examine the special difficulties that spatial data may create for standard regression approaches, and learn models and approaches for undertaking multivariate regression analysis in the presence of spatial heterogeneity and/or spatial dependence. Emphasis in the course is evenly split between learning how to make maps and spatial analysis.
Pre-requisite DCP 701 and introductory statistics including multiple linear regression, or permission of instructor.