Fall 2005
| Demography 110 | 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. Kenneth Wachter, Tuesday-Thursday 9:30-11, 30 Wheeler. |
| Demography/ Sociology C126 | Population Issues: An introduction to theories and issues about the causes and consequences of population change from a sociological perspective. Professor Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Tuesday-Thursday 12:30-2, 102 Wurster. |
| Demography 210 | 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. Kenneth Wachter, Wednesdays 3-6, 72 Evans Hall |
| 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 1:00-2:00 (room 100 2232 Piedmont) Wednesdays 1:00-3:00,(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. Assistant Professor Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Tuesday, 3:30-6:30, 111 Kroeber. |
| Demography 296 | Advanced Research Techniques. Problems in data acquisition, analysis, and presentation of technical demographic research. Required of graduate students in the Ph.D. program in Demography. Professor Gene Hammel, Wednesday 9-12, Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. |
| questions regarding program: Monique Verrier, monique@demog.berkeley.edu |
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