Fall 2006
| Demography
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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, 30 Wheeler. |
| Demography/
Sociology C126 last year's syllabus |
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 2-3:30, 220 Wheeler. |
| Demography
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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, Seminar room (room 100), 2232 Piedmont Ave. |
| Demography
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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 260 | Special Topics in Demography Seminar: "Formalism and Uncertainty." This cours will explore the theoretical underpinning — and limits — of formalism in social science. Focusing on the formal traditions in demography and kinship studies, but also drawing on linguistics and economics, we will think about what can be achieved with formal modeling, what kind of erasures it requires, and what assumptions about human interaction are embedded between formal theories and uncertainty. Room 100, 2232 Piedmont Ave., Professor Jennifer Johnson-Hanks. |
| 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. Eugene Hammel, Wednesday 9-12, Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. |
| questions regarding program: Monique Verrier, monique@demog.berkeley.edu |
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