SOC 8890 is also offered in Spring 2025
SOC 8890 is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 8890 is also offered in Spring 2023
SOC 8890 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2021 | SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, & Mobility (63651)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 6 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
- Class Notes:
- 4 seats reserved for Sociology graduate students. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times. Click on this link for more information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC8890+Spring2021
- Class Description:
- Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying. This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously; identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; relating multiple dimensions of population structure; and figuring out what population a research question is really about. The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- All disciplines welcome. No prior background in demography is required. No prerequisites.
- Class Format:
- In Spring 2021, we will meet online-only, synchronously. Our class time is highly interactive.
- Workload:
- Weekly reading and problem sets; preparing for class discussion and exercises; short research proposals.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/63651/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 November 2020
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2021 Sociology Classes