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Department: Demography

Coordinator: Professor Neil Bennett

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: nbennett@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.cuny.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/demographic-research/

FACULTY

Deborah Balk, Neil Bennett, Andrew Beveridge, Jennifer Brite, Janet Gornick, Frank Heiland, Theodore Joyce, Sanders Korenman, John Mollenkopf, Jeremy Porter, Holly Reed, Diana Romero, Shige Song, Simone Wegge, Na Yin

THE PROGRAM

The Certificate Program in Demography offers courses and seminars for doctoral students enrolled in a program at the Graduate Center. Students who complete the interdisciplinary concentration receive, a certificate in Demography.

The program provides students with the tools to understand deeply, and conduct rigorous analyses of, population structure and processes. Specifically, the courses comprising the certificate will focus, for example, on understanding the causes and consequences of changes in population-related phenomena such as family formation, fertility and reproductive health, disease, aging and mortality, urbanization, racial and ethnic composition, and mobility, and how such changes shape social, economic, and political processes and outcomes at the local, national, and international level.

Resources for Research and Training

New York City is home to many local, regional, national, and international organizations that have demographic orientations. The CUNY Institute for Demographic Research has strong ties with a number of these organizations and will form informal, and, in some cases, formal liaisons with others. (The organizations include New York area governmental institutions such as the Population Division of the New York City Department of Planning, New York City’s Independent Budget Office, the Mayor’s Office, the New York State Assembly and Senate staff, the Executive Office in Albany, and the New York State Education Department, as well as the Population Council, the Guttmacher Institute, and the Population Division of the United Nations. We will seek to establish internships and externships at these organizations and others. Certificate students may have the opportunity to work with demography scholars from several CUNY campuses who are pursuing research at the Institute. In addition, doctoral fellowships in demography will be available through the Institute.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CERTIFICATE IN DEMOGRAPHY

Candidates for the certificate in Demography must already be enrolled in a program at the Graduate Center. To earn the certificate, the student must take the following courses (unless a waiver is approved by the DCP Coordinator): DCP 70100 Introduction to Demography, DCP 70200 Methods of Demographic Analysis, and DCP 80100 Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis. In addition, a certificate candidate must take six credits of approved elective courses.

Courses

In addition to the three required courses noted above, the Demography Certificate Program offers the following elective courses, of variable credit: Economic Demography, Demography of the Life Course, Mortality Analysis, Demography of Aging, Fertility, Reproductive Health, Immigration, Urbanization, Population and Development, Population and Environment, Spatial Demography, Historical Demography, The Demography of New York, Demography of Conflict and Disaster, Population Health, Demography of HIV/AIDS, Biodemography, Formal Demography, Qualitative Methods for Demographic Analysis, and Techniques of Demographic Data Collection.