Demography
The Certificate Program in Demography is available to students matriculated in one of the existing Ph.D. programs at the Graduate Center.
The program provides doctoral 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 newly-formed 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. The certificate program will seek to establish internships and externships at these organizations and others. Certificate students will have the opportunity to work with demography scholars from several CUNY campuses. Doctoral fellowships in demography will be available through the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research.
Special Requirements
To earn the certificate, the student must take the following courses: DEM 70100 Introduction to Demography, DEM 70200 Methods of Demographic Analysis, and DEM80100 Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis. In addition, a certificate candidate must take six credits of approved elective courses. The certificate program expects to begin offering courses in the Fall of 2010. For further information contact Professor Neil G. Bennet, Coordinator. (See also the Institute for Demographic Research Web Site .)
