Spring Semester 2010

Note: Course offerings are determined by individual departments, not the Population Studies program. Check with individual departments for information about cancellations or other changes.

Instructor:  Ragui Assaad  (1.5 cr.)

Data analysis techniques for practitioners in fields of planning, management, and policy analysis who work at community and regional levels. Population analysis and forecasting techniques relevant for small geographic areas. Techniques for regional and local economic analysis, such as shift-share analysis, economic base, and location quotient analysis.

PA 5451/PubH 6281 Immigrant Health Issues

Instructor:  Robin Councilman  (3-4 cr.)

Web-based course. Research skills to access demographic, health, and background information on immigrants in the United States; determine major character/health needs of immigrants; design “culturally competent” health programs; and advocate for changes to promote immigrant health.

PA 5452 Immigration and Public Policy

Instructor:  Katherine Fennelly  (3 cr.)

Issues of international migration and the integration of immigrants and refugees are among the most important public policy questions of our age. The purpose of this course is to teach students to employ an analytical framework to the analysis of immigration policy proposals in Europe and the United States.

PubH 6370 Social Epidemiology

Instructor: J. Michael Oakes (2 cr.)

This course aims to introduce public health and other interested graduate students to the sub-discipline of social epidemiology, including theory and methods. Social epidemiology is the branch of epidemiology that consider s how social interaction and purposive human activity affect health.

PubH 6845 Using U.S. Demographic Data in Policy Analysis

Instructor: Michael Davern and Pamela Jo Johnson  (3 cr.)

Practical instruction in posing researchable policy questions, locating existing demographic data, converting data into usable file format, understanding documentation, analyzing data, and communicating findings according to standards of the professional policy community.

SOC 8551 Social Structure and the Life Course

Instructor: Jeylan Mortimer (3 cr.)

Central concepts and premises of life course analysis as applied to intersocietal (comparative), intrasocietal (socioeconomic status, race, and gender), and historical variability; institutional patterning of life course (family, education, work, the polity); deviance and criminal careers; changes in the self; and methodological strategies.

FW 5051 Analysis of Populations

Instructor: Todd Arnold (4 cr.)

Factors involved in regulation, growth, general dynamics of populations. Data needed to describe populations, population growth, population models, regulatory mechanisms.