| Demography
Demography has a long and proud tradition at Penn, and students
seeking to specialize in it have an unusually broad array of courses
from which to pick, and a relatively large number of faculty members
with whom they can work. Penn has professors who teach and conduct
research within virtually all substantive areas of population. Among
the areas in which our demographers work are the core areas of demography:
fertility (Smith, Kohler), mortality (Elo, Ewbank,
Preston, Zuberi), health (Schnittker, Soldo, Aiken) and migration
(Zuberi). In addition, they work on more traditionally sociological
topics such as family (Elo, Furstenberg, Preston), labor force (Jacobs,
Madden), race, ethnicity and gender (Jacobs, Preston, Zuberi),
and modernization and social change, and
in several geographical areas (particularly Africa and Latin America).
Faculty from the departments of Anthropology, Biology, and Economics,
are also active in population-related research. The wide range of
faculty research projects offer ample opportunity for research participation
by graduate students, and every year several are supported as research
assistants.
Students wishing to specialize in demography have a diversity of
options. Penn is one of the few universities offering a Ph.D. as
well as an MA in demography; thus, graduate students in the Sociology
Department can earn a joint Ph.D. in demography and sociology. Alternatively,
a student may wish to do only an MA in demography, or simply to
take courses in particular areas. Students specializing in demography
(i.e. either a joint degree or an MA) are expected to be conversant
with the fundamental methods of demography and the basic substantive
and theoretical issues before the field, and to become engaged in
primary research at an early stage of their graduate career. A set
of courses on methods and substantive issues are offered (some every
year, some every other year). More importantly, students are encouraged
to participate in collaborative research with faculty members, or
to develop their own research interests in consultation with a faculty
member(s).
Demographers
at Penn are principally located in two departments:
Sociology
| Linda
Aiken |
health;
labor; health economics; workforce; health outcomes |
| Irma
Elo |
mortality;
consequences of fertility timing |
| Frank
F. Furstenberg, Jr. |
family;
nuptiality |
| Emily Hannum |
education, stratification, mobility, Chinese society |
| Kristen Harknett |
family, economic underpinnings of marriage decisions; racial and ethnic patterns of family formation |
| Jerry
A. Jacobs |
stratification;
education; occupation and work |
| Grace
Kao |
race
and ethnicity; sociology of education; immigration; adolescent
development; Asian Americans. |
| Hans-Peter Kohler |
population, demography, social/sexual networks, AIDS, fertilitiy, health |
| Janice
F. Madden |
labor
force; economic geography |
| Hyunjoon Park |
Social stratification, education, family, health, social demography, quantitative methods, Eash Asian studies |
| Samuel
H. Preston |
mortality;
formal demography |
| Jason
Schnittker |
health,
family |
| Herbert
L. Smith |
statistics;
family demography |
| Tukufu
Zuberi |
migration;
mortality |
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Economics
In addition, research investigators are
affiliated with the Population Studies Center:
Requests for application forms and additional information regarding
the Graduate Group in Demography should be directed to:
Graduate Group in Demography
Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298 USA
Email: ggd@pop.upenn.edu
WWW: http://www.pop.upenn.edu/programs/ggd/ggd.index.html
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Courses
in Demography
Courses in Demography are cross-listed within other graduate groups,
and include the following:
| Dem/Soc |
594 |
|
History
of Population |
| Dem/Soc |
604 |
|
Methodology
of Social Research |
| Dem/Soc |
607 |
|
Introduction
to Demography |
| Dem/Soc |
609 |
|
Basic Demographic
Methods |
| Dem/Soc |
612 |
|
Categorical
Data Analysis |
| Dem/Reg
Sci |
616 |
|
Regional
Labor Market Issues |
| Dem/Soc |
621 |
|
Mortality |
| Dem/Soc |
622 |
|
Fertility |
| Dem/Econ |
660 |
|
Economic
Development |
| Dem/Soc |
677 |
|
International
Migration |
| Dem/Soc |
707 |
|
Seminar
in Demographic Research I |
| Dem/Soc |
708 |
|
Seminar
in Demographic Research II |
| Dem/Soc |
728 |
|
Demographic
Aspects of Urbanization |
| Dem |
731 |
|
Advanced
Demographic Methods |
| Dem/Soc |
757 |
|
Mathematical
Demography |
| Dem/Soc |
777 |
|
Special
Topics in Demography |
| Dem/Soc/Econ |
790 |
|
Demographic
Aspects of the Labor Force |
| Dem |
796 |
|
Demographic,
Economic, and Social Interrelations |
| Econ |
791 |
|
|
| Dem/Econ |
799 |
|
Seminar
in Population and Labor |
| Dem/Econ |
993 |
|
Economic
Demography |
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Sociology courses of interest
to demographers include:
| Soc |
524 |
|
Advanced
Topics of the Sociology of the Western Family |
| Soc |
531 |
|
Gender,
The Family & Social Change |
| Soc |
535 |
|
Quantitative
Methods I |
| Soc |
536 |
|
Quantitative
Methods II |
| Soc |
543 |
|
Stratification |
| Soc |
544 |
|
Medicine
and Religion in Society |
| Soc |
550 |
|
Social
Mobility |
| Soc |
561 |
|
Family
Values and Population Change |
| Soc |
611 |
|
Structural
Equation Models |
| Soc |
625 |
|
Survey
Research Design |
| Soc |
636 |
|
Stratification |
| Soc |
705 |
|
Advanced
Quantitative Methods |
Economics courses
of interest to demographers include:
| Econ |
620 |
|
Data Analysis
and Econometrics |
| Econ |
701 |
|
Microeconomic
Theory I |
| Econ |
702 |
|
Macroeconomic
Theory II |
| Econ |
707 |
|
Economic
History and Growth |
| Econ |
708 |
|
Mathematics
for Economists |
| Econ |
721a |
|
Econometrics
I |
| Econ |
721b |
|
Econometrics
II |
| Econ |
760 |
|
Economic
Development; Basic Survey Course |
| Econ |
761 |
|
Topics
in Economics Development |
| Econ |
792 |
|
Economics
of Labor |
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