CSDE Training Program

THE CSDE TRAINING PROGRAM:

The Graduate Program for Advanced Studies in Demography at the

University of Washington

Introduction
The CSDE Training Program is the academic pathway for UW graduate students who wish to receive advanced interdisciplinary training in demography, in addition to their discipline-based courses of study. CSDE also provides seminars and technical workshops, and supports the learning, research, collaboration and communication of students and faculty working in a wide variety of demographic fields. If you are interested in more information about the training program, please contact any of the training committee members, as they would be happy to discuss with you the training program and the opportunities associated with becoming a demographer!

Training Program
The training program consists of a set of core courses, complemented by related courses in affiliated disciplines, a research collaboration with a faculty mentor, and receipt of a letter of recognition upon completion of the training curriculum. The training program can take between 1.5 and 2 years to complete.

    CURRICULUM - The training program curriculum combines the core demography courses offered by CSDE with demographic courses in other disciplines. All Trainees are required to complete Demography & Ecology (SOC/CSDE 513, 1 quarter 3 credits), Demographic Methods (SOC/CSDE 533, 1 quarter 3 credits) and Population Studies Pro-Seminar (CSDE 502, 3 quarters, 1 credit per quarter). They are required to take CSDE Seminar Series (CSDE 501, 3 quarters, 1 credit) each quarter they are in the program (usually 2 years). Trainees are also required to complete and pass any 3 of a list of approved demography-related courses from the 8 departments and schools formally affiliated with CSDE's training program. They are: Anthropology, Economics, Epidemiology, Geography, Public Affairs, Social Work, Sociology, and Statistics. The courses for our formally affiliated departments/schools are displayed below.

    Trainees may also join from other disciplines and departments. In the past CSDE Trainees have also arranged collaborative training from other disciplines and departments. Trainees from other disciplines work with their respective graduate program chair to design an appropriate curriculum.

    FACULTY MENTOR - An invaluable component of the training program is a research apprenticeship or mentorship. CSDE will work with every trainee to match her or him with a faculty mentor in their own department or with a CSDE Faculty Affiliate. The mentor advises the trainee on their individual research program and makes every effort to involve the trainee in the mentor’s research project or on another faculty member’s project that more closely aligns with the trainee’s interests.

    LETTER OF RECOGNITION - In addition to receiving advanced disciplinary and interdisciplinary training in demography, CSDE Trainees are recognized as members of the CSDE intellectual community. Upon completion of all requirements, trainees receive a letter of recognition from the CSDE Director and Associate Director acknowledging their successful completion of the program.

Significant Research Resources for Trainees

Workshops
Designed to complement course instruction, CSDE Workshops are offered in a shorter, highly accessible format that are responsive to the specific needs of CSDE’s Trainees and Faculty Affiliates. Most workshops are offered by the Methods and Data Core, and generally meet for 1-3 sessions. Offerings each year typically include: Introductions to Stata and SAS; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Social Network Analysis; Introduction to GIS; Coordinate Systems in GIS; Exploratory Spatial Analysis; Point Patterns and Raster Surfaces; Spatial Regression; and Geographically Weighted Regression.

Core Services
All trainees may use CSDE core services. CSDE has a dedicated and highly professional staff whose mission is to support and facilitate demographic research through the Center’s four core service areas - Administration and Information Management, Biodemography, Computing, and Data and Methods.

Financial Support for Research
CSDE Fellowships - Graduate students in our formally affiliated programs are eligible to apply for fellowships that come with a monthly stipend and are awarded for a 12 month period.

Conference Attendance - CSDE Trainees may apply for support for travel to present demographic research in professionally-oriented or academic conferences. Priority is given for participation at the Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting.

For questions about the program please contact Sara Curran (CSDE Training Director) (Email), Wolfram Latsch (CSDE Training Coordinator) (Email), or the CSDE training committee members.


Demographic Programs of Study for Formally Affiliated Graduate Programs

Department of Anthropology
Biocultural (any five in list below)

  • BIOA 450: Biodemography
  • BIOA 455: Reproductive Ecology Laboratory
  • BIOA 482: Human Population Genetics
  • BIOA 520: Human Behavioral Ecology
  • BIOA 526: Quantitative Methods and Modeling for Biocultural Anthropology
  • BIOA 568: Human Reproductive Ecology
  • BIOA 569/CSDE 569: Demographic Analysis in Biological and Social Anthropology
Sociocultural
  • ANTHRO 486: Human Family Systems
  • ANTHRO 535: Research in Demography & Population
  • ANTHRO 556: The Evolution of the Family

Department of Economics

  • ECON 541: Labor Economics
  • ECON 542: Labor Economics II
  • ECON 543: Population Economics
  • ECON 585: Adv. Applied Econometrics
  • ECON 591: Microecon. of Development
  • ECON 592: Macroecon of Development

Department of Epidemiology

  • EPI 547: Health and Health Care: Population Health, Social Determinants, and Health Disparities
  • EPI 548: Social Determinants of Health Research Methods
  • AND (one additional course from the following or a course approved by the faculty mentor)
  • EPI 539: Research methods in developing countries
  • EPI 554: Introduction to epidemic modeling for infectious diseases
  • EPI 555: Statistical methods for spatial epidemiology
  • EPI 590A: Cancer health disparities

Department of Geography

  • GEOG 542: Research Seminar: Social and Population Geography
  • GEOG 505: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development
  • GEOG 543: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race
  • GEOG 578: Internal Spatial Structure of Cities
  • GEOG 580: Medical Geography
  • AND (one of following)
  • GEOG 430: Contemporary Dev’t Issues in Latin America
  • GEOG 431: Geography & Gender
  • GEOG 435: Industrialization and Urbanization in China
  • GEOG 438: Cities of East Asia: Geography and Development

Department of Statistics

  • SOC 431: Fertility and Mortality
  • AND (two of following)
  • STAT 519: Time Series Analysis
  • CS&SS 536: Log-Linear and Logistic Modeling
  • CS&SS 560: Hierarchical Modeling
  • CS&SS 564: Bayesian Statistics
  • CS&SS 565: Inequality: Trends & Explanations
  • CS&SS 566: Causal Modeling
  • CS&SS 567: Statistical Analysis of Social Networks

Department of Sociology

  • SOC 431: Fertility and Mortality
  • SOC 430: Urbanization and Urbanism
  • SOC 583: Special Topics in Demography & Ecology

Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs

  • PBAF 569: Race and Public Policy
  • PBAF 570: Social Policy Analysis and Management
  • PBAF 571/572: Education, the Workforce and Public Policy
  • PBAF 573: U.S. Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policy

School of Social Work
(any three of following)

  • SOC W 501: Poverty & Inequality
  • SOC W 521: Child & Family Inequalities
  • SOC W 528: Healthcare Inequalities
  • SOC W 529: Mental Health Inequalities
  • SOC W 558: Gender, Gender Identity, and Sexuality
  • SOC W 559: Child Development
  • SOC W 578: Evidence Based Practice in Child Mental Health
  • SOC W 600: Tutorial in Population Research
  • SOC WL 577: Promoting Well-Being Among At-Risk Groups
  • SOC WL 579: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Prevention Science
  • SOC WL 591: Embodiment of Risk, Health Disparities, and Stress Mechanisms