Fall 2007 Courses
| Demography
110 last year's 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. Robert Chung, Tuesday-Thursday 9:30-11:00, 200 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 John Wilmoth, Tuesday-Thursday 2-3:30, 130 Wheeler. |
| 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. Prof. Ken Wachter, Wednesdays 3-6, 39 Evans (NOTE: This class will now be hel. |
| 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 250 | Mathematical Demography: A comprehensive course in mathematical models of population dynamics, including linear and non-linear, deterministic and stochastics, discrete and continuous models. Prof. Ken Wachter, Tuesdays-Thursdays 11-12:30pm, 127 Dwinelle. |
| questions regarding program: Monique Verrier, monique@demog.berkeley.edu |
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