Related UW Courses
Demography is a major subfield within the discipline of sociology and is also an interdisciplinary science that links sociology with statistics, geography, economics, anthropology, psychology, epidemiology, and related social and biological sciences. Below is a list of graduate level courses in demography and population studies offered by CSDE and by individual departments and schools at UW.
Jackson School of International Studies
SIS 432 : Population and Modernization |
Examines role of demographic factors in process of social modernization and economic growth. Approach is historical, focusing on populations of developed countries since 1700, and analytic, stressing attempts made by different disciplines to model demographic relationships, with attention to less developed regions. |
SIS 553 : Environment and Health in the World Trade Organization |
Conflicts between global environmental and public health on the one hand and international trade expansion on the other in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Focuses on the state of GAITT/WTO jurisprudence and its interaction with sovereign laws and regulations. Cases include asbestos, reformulated gasoline, beef hormones, shrimp-turtle, and genetically modified organisms. |
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