Fall 2008 Courses

Demography 110 current description and syllabus	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. Professor Ken Wachter, Tuesday-Thursday 9:30-11:00, 220 Wheeler.
Demography/ Sociology C126	Social Consequences of Population Dynamics: An introduction to theories and issues about the causes and consequences of population change from a sociological perspective. Professor Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Tuesday-Thursday 2:00-3:30pm, 122 Wheeler.
Demography C165/Sociology C127	Family Household in Comparative Perspective: How are families and households organized around the world? Which aspects of household and family vary, and which are constant? What are the relationships between household and family on the one hand and the political, economic, or broad social patterns on the other? This course examines all of these questions, taking historical and contemporary examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Professor Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Tuesday-Thursday 11-12:30pm, 170 Barrows.
Demography 210 current description and syllabus	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. Prof. Ken Wachter, Wednesdays 3-6, 31 Evans.
Demography 213	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 2:00-3:00pm in room 100 2232 Piedmont and Wednesdays 1:00-3:00pm in the Lab in the basement of 2232 Piedmont.
Demography 220	Human Fertility. Theoretical models and empirical measures of fertility; comparative analysis of social, economic, and demographic factors influencing reproductive trends and differentials; population and family planning policies in industrialized and developing countries in historical and contemporary perspective. Prof. Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, M 12-2pm, room 100 at 2232 Piedmont Avenue.

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