Courses for Spring 2025

Title Instructors Location Time Description Cross listings Fulfills Registration notes Syllabus Syllabus URL
DEMG 5351-401 Quantitative Methods II Hyunjoon Park R 3:30 PM-5:29 PM As the second part of a two-semester sequence, this graduate course focuses on regression analysis as used in social science research. In particular, we discuss features and assumptions of linear regression and logistic regression models. We learn how to apply regression models to real social science data using Stata and how to interpret the results. SOCI5351401
DEMG 5351-402 Quantitative Methods II F 10:15 AM-11:14 AM As the second part of a two-semester sequence, this graduate course focuses on regression analysis as used in social science research. In particular, we discuss features and assumptions of linear regression and logistic regression models. We learn how to apply regression models to real social science data using Stata and how to interpret the results. SOCI5351402
DEMG 5351-403 Quantitative Methods II F 1:45 PM-2:44 PM As the second part of a two-semester sequence, this graduate course focuses on regression analysis as used in social science research. In particular, we discuss features and assumptions of linear regression and logistic regression models. We learn how to apply regression models to real social science data using Stata and how to interpret the results. SOCI5351403
DEMG 5410-401 Advanced Topics in Sociology of Gender Pilar Gonalons-Pons W 3:30 PM-6:29 PM This advanced seminar on the sociology of gender critically examines ideas about gender (women, men, masculinity, femininity), how those ideas shape our social world, and the subsequent power and impact of gender ideologies. GSWS5320401, SOCI5410401
DEMG 6210-401 Current Issues in Health and Mortality Irma Elo T 8:30 AM-11:29 AM The course focuses on the description and explanation of health and mortality in human populations and their variability across several dimensions such as age, time, place, social class, race, etc. The course includes general theories of health, mortality and morbidity, investigations of mortality and related processes in developing and developed countries, and discussions of future mortality trends and their implications for individual lives and the society at large. SOCI6210401
DEMG 7071-401 Second Year Research Seminar II Emilio Alberto Parrado R 3:30 PM-6:29 PM This is the second part of a two-course sequence designed to introduce and familiarize second year students with current norms for academic research, presentation and publishing in the field of Demography. Students are expected to finalize the analyses and to complete their second year research paper. This is a required course for second year demography students. Others interested in enrolling in the course may do so with the permission of the Chair of the Graduate Group in Demography. SOCI7071401
DEMG 7310-401 Advanced Demographic Methods Michel Guillot T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM This course considers a variety of procedures for measuring and modeling demographic processes. We will consider both deterministic (drawn from classic demographic methods, stable population theory, and the like) and stochastic (drawn from statistics) perspectives and methods, including their integration. Pre-requisites: DEMG 609 and SOCI 536 (or its equivalent). SOCI7310401