Supervised Practice in Demography

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Pre-requisites: BIOE 6525, DEMO 6500, DEMO 6546, DEMO 6555, DEMO 6560, DEMO 6565. This is a graduate course whose objective is to provide the student the opportunity to apply to real life situations the theoretical and methodological knowledge acquired in previous courses. This experience will facilitate the student’s transition from the academic to the occupational environment, since he will assume the tasks and responsibilities that a demographer can undertake at work. These will vary in terms of place as well as in content and type of problem encountered. The student will be exposed t o programs at different agencies so as to become familiar with the diversity of contributions that demographers can make to the social, economic, and health life of the country. He will undertake a demographic analysis as demanded by the different institutions. In this practice, the student will be assigned to a specific agency depending on his particular interest. He or she will be directly supervised by the chosen persons at the agency and by faculty from the Demography Program.