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.
Public Affairs
PB AF 537 F : Gender and Development |
This course examines men's and women's lives in less developed countries, the way in which men and women influence development outcomes, and how development policies and programs differentially influence men, women, boys, and girls. This is a survey course for understanding the gendered dimensions of globalization, economic development, and political economies. |
PB AF 569 : Race and Public Policy |
Analyzes the way in which the persistent problem of race is expressed in the formation and implementation of social and public policy. |
PB AF 570 : Social Policy Analysis and Management |
Examines major institutions and programs in the human resources policy area: education, regulation of labor market, health care, income maintenance, social services. Discusses alternative policy instruments, analytic perspectives, intergovernmental issues, and management issues arising across policy areas. Explores challenges of linking services and clients across separate agencies. |
PB AF 596 : Ethics and Values in Environmental and Natural Resource Policy |
Explores environmental values and ethics and their relationship to the policy process. Includes content on value foundation of economic efficiency and its relationship to fairness, legal entitlements, duty to other creatures, and incommensurabilities in valuing goods. Current policy controversies are addressed. |
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