Fall 2009 Courses
The following courses will be offered in fall 2009. This schedule will be updated if any other courses are added to the schedule. Refer to the campus schedule of classes for last minute time and location updates and to verify number of spaces remaining in the class.
| Demography
110 current description and syllabus 3 units |
Demographic Methods: Introduction
to Population Analysis is an introductory course in demographic
methods, teaching how demographers measure population growth, mortality,
fertility, marriage, and age structure. It provides an opportunity to
develop quantitative skills in the context of human lifecourse processes.
There are weekly exercises. Robert Chung, Tuesday-Thursday 9:30-11:00,
220 Wheeler. |
| Demography/
Sociology C126 4 units |
Social Consequences of Population Dynamics: n introduction to the causes and consequences of
population change from a social and historical perspective. Topics include: the demographic
transition, resource scarcity, economic development, the environment, population control,
family planning, birth control, aging, intergenerational transfers, and international
migration. In addition to 3 hours of lecture, one hour of section per week is required.
John Wilmoth, Tuesday-Thursday 2:00-3:30 pm, 210 Wheeler. |
| Demography
210
current description and syllabus 4 units |
Demographic Methods: Rates and Structures is an advanced course in basic demographic methods. It presents training
in lifetables, including multiple-decrement lifetables, hazard models
including Cox proportional hazards, frailty, and unobserved heterogeneity,
population projection with Leslie Matrices, the concept of a synthetic
cohort, and the fundamentals of stable population theory. Demography
210 involves use of computer workstations (with the R statistical language),
some reliance on basic calculus, and an extended project in demographic
projection. Robert Chung, Wednesdays 3-6, 31 Evans. |
| Demography
213 2 units |
Introduction to Computing for Demographers: Introduction to R and SAS for demographic statistics. Basic Unix tricks and idiosyncrasies of the Demography
Lab will be covered. Lots and lots of homework. Carl Mason, Mondays
1:00-2:00pm in room 100 2232 Piedmont and Wednesdays 1:00-3:00pm in the Lab in the
basement of 2232 Piedmont. |
| Demography 160/260 (pdf) detailed description 3 units/4 units |
Historical Demography: In this course the most salient events of past populations will be discussed in the light of what we know of human population processes today. Subjects covered include the Neolithic Revolution, population dynamics in Roman and medieval societies, the Black Death, the role of epidemic disease in past societies, the unprecedented die-off of Amerindian populations, Malthus and the limits to population growth imposed by available resources, pre-industrial demographic dynamics, the disappearance of major epidemics and the modern growth of human population, the period of mass transoceanic migration, the Demographic Transition in historic Europe and in the developing world, the present and future of human populations. Undergraduate course: Mondays and Wednesdays, 10-11:30am; Graduate Seminar: Mondays 3-5pm. Both courses will be taught in the Demography Seminar Room by visiting professor David Reher (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). |