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Graduate Course Descriptions

SYD 5135 Techniques of Population Analysis
A lecture and discussion course which covers techniques of demographic data collection and evaluation; the measurement of population processes, composition, and distribution; social and economic characteristics of population.

DEM 5930 Applied Research Practicum in Demography
Prerequisite: Demography Techniques. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.

ECP 5116 Applied Economic Demography
Prerequisite: ECP 5115 or consent of instructor. Applications of economic demography, including techniques for dealing with missing or incomplete data. Projections and estimates of population, demographic and economic characteristics. Determining the effects of demographic change on economic and social variables.

SYD 5105 Population Theory
A seminar where students report on, and discuss, the historical and contemporary population thought and theory, with emphasis on critical evaluation of different ideas and the construction of theoretical frameworks useful in demographic analysis.

ECP 5115 Seminar in the Economics of Population
Theoretical and empirical treatment of the determinants of demographic behavior in less and more developed nations. The economic consequences of the behavior. Implications of both sets of finding: for population and economics policy.

SYD 5145 Population Policy
Development and present status of fertility, mortality, mobility, and population distribution policies, with particular attention to policy goals, means of implementation, and demographic consequence.

SYD 5215 Mortality
Concerned with conceptual and theoretical approaches, measurement problems, analytical strategies, and state of the literature assessments in the area of morbidity and mortality.

SYD 5225 Fertility
Addresses global trends in human fertility, the major conceptual approaches to the study of fertility, and the various policies which may effect it.

SYD 5235 Population Mobility
A seminar which students report on, and discuss, the major research on residential mobility, with guidance by the instructor. Both theoretical and methodological issues are reviewed critically, and research is outlined.

SYD 5425 Urbanization and Population Distribution
A seminar which focuses on the processes of urbanization and changes in urban life in the U.S. and worldwide. Both determinants and consequences of these developments are analyzed, and indications of future trends are discussed.

ECP 5117 Mathematical Demography
An introduction to the central analytical techniques of modern population study. Analysis including stable population theory and indirect estimation, continuous and discrete time formulations are considered; generalizations of the standard model with fixed mortality and fertility are also examined. Parametric models of fertility, mortality, stable populations, and the curve-fitting techniques underlying these approaches are reviewed.

ECS 5025 Economic Development: Policy and Programming
Strategic economic choices in developing countries, macro, and micro planning techniques, project analysis, policy instruments to influence development.

GEO 5146 Geographic Information Processing
Prerequisite: GEO 3140 or consent of instructor. Advanced seminar on GIS topics, including locational control, spatial data structures, spatial/cartographic statistics, modeling and analysis, and future trends in decision support, sensors, and geographic methods.

URP 5521 Epidemiology Bases of Health Planning
Introduction to common definitions of health and diseases. Ecological and epidemological basis of determining the distribution of health and diseases conditions in the population explored in depth. Common bio statistical measures, health status indicators, and national and state data sources will be integrated. Knowledge will be applied to the development of a local health plan.

URP 5614 Population and Development Planning
Intended to provide the student with an understanding of issues, methods, strategies, and problems related to the integration of population information with policies for guiding the social and economic development of third world nations.