7013 Basic Demographic Methods of Analysis
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: SOC 5143 or consent of instructor.
Examines basic materials and methods used in demography, including methods for measuring levels and rates of population change, fertility, mortality, migration (both domestic and international), distribution, and composition. Emphasis on cohort and period patterns of change, methods of standardization, and life table methods.
7023 Advanced Methods of Applied Demographic Analysis
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: DEM 7013 and SOC 5143, or consent of instructor.
Examines use of advanced demographic and statistical methods of analysis of population and sample data, including simulating, adjusting, and smoothing; advanced survival analysis, methods of rate decomposition and standardization, population estimation, population projections and evaluations of each. Considers applications of demographic techniques in marketing, management and impact analyses in business and government.
7033 Fertility and Mortality
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: SOC 5143 or consent of instructor.
Provides an overview of fertility and mortality in both national and international contexts. Examines theoretical perspectives used to explain patterns in fertility and mortality, and historical, current and projected patterns in these processes in both the United States and in developed and developing countries around the world. Explores advanced sources of data, measures and methods of analyses used to analyze the levels and changes in these processes used in applied setting.
7043 Migration
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: SOC 5143 or consent of instructor.
Examines patterns, trends and consequences of migration and immigration in the United States and other parts of the world. Explores historical and current theoretical perspectives on migration, analysis of historical, current and projected patterns of migration in the United States and other parts of the world, and examines effects of migration on other demographic, economic, social, and political factors in the United States and elsewhere.
7053 International Migration
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: SOC 5143 or consent of instructor.
Examines the determinants and consequences of international migration from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Explores impacts on the migrants themselves and the countries of origin and destination. Specific issues include global competition for skilled labor, the concept of ‘replacement migration’, and the role of the state in creating and regulating international population movements. Examines public policy implications of the volume and composition of migration for origin and destination countries.
7063 Applied Demography in Policy Settings
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: DEM 7013 and SOC 5143, or consent of instructor.
Examines the roles, duties and implications of being an applied demographer in private- and public-sector policy settings, including required professional skills and knowledge. Provides practical case-study based experience in applying demographic knowledge and methods to such areas of applied analysis as marketing research, site location analysis, impact analyses, advertising analyses, program evaluation, short-term and long-term planning, and similar areas of policy development. Emphasis on interactive and team-based case-study analyses resulting in written reports, and findings presented to governmental or private-sector decision makers. Provides internship opportunities for students intending to work in applied policy settings.
7073 Disparities in Health and Health Care
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Overview of current and historical trends and differentials of health, health care access, and health care delivery systems among different racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and residence area groups in the United States and elsewhere. Examines differentials in the types and rates of incidence and occurrence of alternative forms of disease and disorders, and access to physicians, hospitals and forms of treatment across demographic and socioeconomic groups. Data and methods for assessing such disparities are reviewed and alternative policy options for decreasing such disparities are discussed.
7203 Software Applications for Demographic Analysis
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Demographic analysis of statistical data sets using SAS or other appropriate software. Manipulation and analysis of very large (e.g., census bureau) data sets. Emphasis is on both introductory SAS Data Step programming and SAS Procedures (i.e., PROCs) for population estimates and longer-term projections, shorter-term forecasting, and general estimation.
7213 Advanced Software Applications for Demographic Analysis
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: DEM 7203 or consent of instructor.
Advanced demographic analysis of large statistical data sets using the SAS system. Emphasizes programming for such techniques as small-area estimation, sampling methods, automated data-cleaning techniques of inconsistent data sets, and a detailed treatment of the SAS Macro Language and Matrix Language.
7223 Advanced Methods for Life Table Analysis
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
This course covers demographic life tables and event history analysis for events such as unemployment spans, birth intervals, years of healthy life lived, and other codependent demographic events. Further, this course will provide a survey of demographic analytical methods for empirically explaining variation in timing of demographic events. This course will use SAS and/or STATA software.
7233 Applied Forecasting Methods in Demography
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Explanation of methods used for demographic projections and statistical forecasts of empirical data series for the purpose of planning, policy, analysis, and program evaluation. Methods will be used that solve the many historical problems that arise during forecasting, including the modeling of episodic interventions.
7243 General Research Methods for Demographers I
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Examines key aspects of research methodology and provides an understanding and overview of practical and theoretical methods used to include sampling, interviewing, questionnaire and survey construction, and methods of analysis. The course will examine alternative research perspectives used in writing major publishable articles, and a dissertation in demography.
7253 General Research Methods for Demographers II
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Examines use of advanced methods in research analysis, such as path analysis, event history analysis, hazard and risk modeling, and hierarchical linear modeling; involves writing a draft of the student’s dissertation proposal and the evaluation of the concepts, research design, and methods of data collection and modes of analysis for completing the dissertation. Topics to be covered include a general overview of large demographic surveys, modes of data collection, questionnaire design, reliability and validity, sampling, and analysis incorporating survey designs for various large-scale demographic surveys. Special attention will be given to data collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Statistical software applications will be used as they relate to demographic survey instruments.
7403 Health Care Organizations, Professions, and the Government
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: SOC 5103 or consent of instructor.
Examination of analyses and published research on health care organizations, professions, and federal regulation. Focus on the interrelationships between and among health care organizations (hospitals and HMOs), professions (doctors and nurses), and government policy (laws and changes in state support for health care) and how these interrelationships affect health care.
7413 Public Policy and Corporate Change
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Theory and analysis of corporation response to business policy change, business policymakers’ responses to corporate legal and illegal actions, and public policy alternatives in addressing such change.
7803 Directed Research
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and a minimum of 40 semester credit hours in the Applied Demography doctoral program.
Directed individual reading, discussion, writing, and/or studies of selected topics in the field of Demography. For students needing specialized work not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 hours will apply to the doctoral degree.
7901-3 Special Topics
(1-0, 2-0, 3-0) 1 to 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
An organized course offering the opportunity for specialized study not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit when topics vary, but not more than 6 hours, regardless of discipline, will apply to the Doctoral degree in Applied Demography.
7911-6 Doctoral Dissertation
1 to 6 hours credit. Prerequisite: Admission to Candidacy for the Doctoral degree in Applied Demography.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 12 hours may be applied to the Doctoral degree.
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