Ph.D. Minor Requirements

Students need not formally apply to enroll in the minor; any student currently in good standing in the Graduate School may elect to complete the minor by fulfilling the requirements and filing a program completion form with the Director of Graduate Studies of Population Studies.

• A total of 12 credits is required for the minor at the doctoral level.

• All students must take one of two core required courses:  PA 5301, Population Methods and Issues in the U.S. and the Third World, or SOC 5090, World Population Issues

• Doctoral students must also take at least nine credits from the list of approved courses. Students are required to take elective courses in a specific area of specialization (i.e., historical demography, population geography, economic demography, public health population studies, or family and life course demography).

• Students must register for all courses A/F; courses taken on a pass/fail basis may not count toward the minor (with the exception of PubH 6628, which is currently offered only S-N).

• Students may not apply courses in their major field of study to the minor program in Population Studies.
  

• Students may petition for a particular topics course to be included in their program of study. The Curriculum Oversight Committee will review these petitions to determine whether a particular topics course is appropriate for the minor program curriculum.
  

• Once a student has completed the requirements for the minor, he or she will file a program completion form with the Director of Graduate Studies. The DGS will approve the form and notify the Sociology Department for formal certification.

Note for students who have already filed degree programs with the Graduate School: If you have already filed your official degree program identifying a related field and now wish to include the Population Studies minor, OR if you have already filed a program with one minor and now wish to switch to Population Studies, you must petition the Graduate School to change your program. Please consult the Graduate School’s Student Services and Progress Office for more information.