Principles of Demography (APDEM 801)
The objective of this course is to explore fundamental concepts and ideas in the discipline of Demography and selective major U.S. and world population trends. The course content is framed by the definition of Demography which studies the size, composition, and spatial distribution of populations, and the key dynamics processes that explain population change – fertility, health and mortality, internal and international migration, population aging, and family changes.
This is an outline of the course:
- Introduction to Demographic Principles
- Population Growth and World Demographic Transition
- Population Distribution
- Transitions in Family Patterns and Household Formation
- Gender Inequality
- Fertility Patterns and Policy
- International Migration
- Internal Migration and Residential Segregation
- Health and Mortality
- Age-Sex Composition and Population Aging
- Economic Well-being, Human Capital, and the Environment
Demographic Techniques (SOC 573)
This methods course provides students with important tools and techniques of demographic analysis including census and vital registration systems, evaluating the quality of demographic data, analysis of demographic data, measures of demographic components, population standardization, rate decomposition, construction of a life table, and population projections
- Introduction to Demographic Measurement
- Population Growth
- Age and Sex Composition
- Comparing Populations
- Demographic Writing and Presentations
- Mortality and Health
- Fertility and Family
- Construction and Interpretation of Life Tables
- Population Projections
Applied Demography, Data and GIS (APDEM 802)
This course provides an overview of key government and commercial demographic data sets, and their use in addressing applied demography problems. Instruction in the knowledge and application of GIS techniques used by applied demographers is a major course goal.
Applications in Applied Demography (APDEM 803)
Describing and analyzing real world examples of applied demography applications in business, government, public policy, health and non-profit organizations are instructional objectives of this course. Opportunities are presented to discuss approaches to perform applied demography-related problem solving based on a case study approach.