Elective Courses

Listed below are courses that fulfill the CSDE Certificate Program’s elective course requirements. Students may choose from two of the courses below to fulfill their CSDE certificate elective requirements, as long as one course is listed outside of the student’s home department. For more information about each course, you may see UW’s course catalog or contact the listed professors for a course.

Recommend Electives: Autumn 2022

The courses below are being taught by CSDE Faculty Affiliates.

*BIOA 454 Hormones & Behavior Seminar (Melanie Martin)
*BIOA 455 Laboratory Methods in Hormones & Behavior (Melanie Martin)
ANTH 524 Current Issues in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (Bettina Shell-Duncan)
GEOG 595 Special Topics: Climate Migration (Mark Ellis)

* Note: BIOA454 and BIOA455 are to be taken together

Department of Anthropology

Biocultural

BIOA 423: Social Networks & Health
BIOA 450: Biodemography Seminar
BIOA 455: Reproductive Ecology Laboratory Seminar or Laboratory Methods in Hormones & Behavior
BIOA 473: Biological Adaptability of Human Populations
BIOA 482: Human Population Genetics
BIOA 483: Human Genetics, Disease, and Culture
BIOA 520: Human Behavioral Ecology
BIOA 526: Quantitative Methods and Modeling for Biocultural Anthropology
BIOA 568: Human Reproductive Ecology
BIOA 569: Behavioral Ecology & Demography
BIOA 590/CSDE 595: Biomarker Methods in the Social Sciences

Sociocultural

ANTHRO 535: Research in Demography & Population Studies

Department of Biostatistics

BIOST 526/EPI 540/PHARM 526 Bayesian Biostatistics
BIOST 527/STAT 527: Nonparametric Regression and Classification
BIOST 529/CS&SS 529/STAT 529: Sample Survey Techniques
BIOST 531 /EPI 531: Statistical Methods for Analysis with Missing Data
BIOST 536/EPI 536: Categorical Data Analysis in Epidemiology
BIOST 537 /EPI 537: Survival Data Analysis in Epidemiology
BIOST 540: Longitudinal and Multilevel Data Analysis
BIOST 546: Machine Learning for Biomedical and Public Health Big Data
BIOST 555/EPI 555/GH 534: Statistical Methods for Spatial Epidemiology

Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology

CSDE 555: Population Metrics in Global Health
CSDE 595/BIOA 590: Biomarker Methods in the Social Sciences

Department of Economics

ECON 585: Adv. Applied Econometrics
ECON 587: Applied Microeconometrics
ECON 591: Microeconomics of Development
ECON 592: Macroeconomics of Development

Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

EDLPS 563/PUBPOL 571: Education, the Workforce and Public Policy

Department of Epidemiology

EPI 521/HSERV 542: Epidemiology of Maternal and Child Health Problems
EPI 531 /BIOST 531: Statistical Methods for Analysis with Missing Data
EPI 536/BIOST 536: Categorical Data Analysis in Epidemiology
EPI 537 /BIOST 537 Survival Data Analysis in Epidemiology
EPI 539/G H 531: Research and Evaluation Methods in Global Health
EPI 540/BIOST 526/PHARM 526 Bayesian Biostatistics
EPI 547/HSERV 514: Social Determinants of Population Health and Health Disparities
EPI 548/HSERV 548: Social Determinants of Health: Research Methods
EPI 554: Introduction to Epidemic Modeling for Infectious Diseases
EPI 555/BIOST 555/GH 534: Statistical Methods for Spatial Epidemiology

Department of Geography

GEOG 435: Industrialization and Urbanization in China
GEOG 505: Spatial Dimensions of Chinese Development
GEOG 542: Research Seminar: Social and Population Geography
GEOG 578: Internal Spatial Structure of Cities
GEOG 580: Medical Geography

Department of Global Health

GH 511 Problems in Global Health
GH 514 Global Societal Determinants of Health
GH 531/EPI 539: Research and Evaluation Methods in Global Health
GH 533/CS&SS 527/HSERV 527: Survey Research Methods
GH 534/BIOST 555/EPI 555: Statistical Methods for Spatial Epidemiology
GH 544/HSERV 544: Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries
GH 545 Child Health in Low and Middle Income Countries
GH 546 Global Perspectives on Reproductive Health

Department of Health Systems & Population Health

HSERV 514/EPI 547: Social Determinants of Population Health and Health Disparities
HSERV 523: Advanced Health Services Research Methods I: Large Public Databases; Big Data
HSERV 524: Advanced Health Services Research Methods II: Hierarchical and Incomplete Data
HSERV 525: Advanced Health Services Research Methods III: Casual Inference Using Observational Data
HSERV 527/CS&SS 527/G H 533: Survey Research Methods
HSERV 542/EPI 521: Epidemiology of Maternal and Child Health Problems
HSERV 544/G H 544: Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries
HSERV 548/EPI 548: Social Determinants of Health: Research Methods

School of Pharmacy

PHARM 526/BIOST 526/EPI 540 Bayesian Biostatistics

Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

PUBPOL 533 Economics of International Development
PUBPOL 569: Race and Public Policy
PUBPOL 570: Foundations of Social Policy
PUBPOL 571/EDLPS 563 Education, The Workforce, and Public Policy
PBAF 572: Higher Education and Public Policy
PUBPOL 576: U.S. Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policy
PUBPOL 577 Economics of Health Policy
PUBPOL 579 Child Well-being and Public Policy
PUBPOL 589 Risk Assessment for Environmental Health Hazards

School of Social Work

SOC W 501: Poverty & Inequality
SOC W 521: Child & Family Inequalities
SOC W 526: Social Policy in an Aging Society
SOC W 558: Gender, Gender Identity, and Sexuality
SOC W 591: Embodiment of Risk, Health Disparities, and Stress Mechanisms
SOC WL 577: Promoting Well-Being Among At-Risk Groups
SOC WL 579: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Prevention Science
SOC WL 591A: Research to Policy

Department of Sociology

SOC 430/530: Urbanization and Urbanism
SOC 431/531: Fertility and Mortality
SOC 529/CS&SS 526: Structural Equation Models for the Social Sciences
SOC 534/CS&SS 554/STAT 554: Statistical Methods for Spatial Data
SOC 535: Foundations of Population Health and Health Disparities
SOC 536/CS&SS 536/STAT 536: Analysis of Categorical and Count Data
SOC 538 (Previously 590): Data Science and Population Processes
SOC 539: The Social Causes of Spatial Mobility
SOC 551: Family and Gender Relations
SOC 560/CS&SS 560/STAT 560: Hierarchical Modeling
SOC 563/CS&SS 563/STAT 563: Statistical Demography
SOC 569: Demographic Studies of Stratification
SOC 583: Special Topics in Demography & Ecology
SOC 590(Now 538): Data Science and Population Processes
SOC 590: Oppression and Opportunity: The African American Experience from Jim Crow through the Great Migration
SOC 590: Sociology of Migration

Department of Statistics

STAT 519: Time Series Analysis
STAT 527/BIOST 527 Nonparametric Regression and Classification
STAT 529/BIOST 529/CS&SS 529: Sample Survey Techniques
STAT 536/CS&SS 536/SOC 536: Analysis of Categorical and Count Data
STAT 554/CS&SS 554/SOC 534: Statistical Methods for Spatial Data
STAT 560/CS&SS 560/SOC 560: Hierarchical Modeling
STAT 563/CS&SS 563/SOC 563: Statistical Demography
STAT 564/CS&SS 564: Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences
STAT 566/CS&SS 566: Causal Modeling
STAT 567/CS&SS 567: Statistical Analysis of Social Networks
STAT 593: Statistical Demography

Center for Statistics & the Social Sciences

CS&SS 510: Maximum Likelihood Methods for the Social Sciences
CS&SS 526/SOC 529: Structural Equation Models for the Social Sciences
CS&SS 527/G H 533/HSERV 527: Survey Research Methods
CS&SS 529/BIOST 529/STAT 529: Sample Survey Techniques
CS&SS 536/SOC 536/STAT 536: Analysis of Categorical and Count Data
CS&SS 544: Event History Analysis for the Social Sciences
CS&SS 554/SOC 534/STAT 554: Statistical Methods for Spatial Data
CS&SS 560/SOC 560/STAT 560: Hierarchical Modeling
CS&SS 563/SOC 563/STAT 563: Statistical Demography
CS&SS 564/STAT 564: Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences
CS&SS 566/STAT 566: Causal Modeling
CS&SS 567/STAT 567: Statistical Analysis of Social Networks
CS&SS 569: Visualizing Data
CS&SS 594: Special Topics in Social Science and Statistics

Department of Urban Design & Planning

URBDP 510: Theories and Methodologies of Planning