Program Requirements
The Population Dynamics Option (PDO) is open to PhD students in Sociology specializing in Population Dynamics. The purpose of this program is to provide graduate training in demographic methods (including life table analyses) and enhance students鈥� knowledge of critical population issues. As such, students will be required to take a course on demographic methods and an overview substantive course on the key population issues facing societies today. In addition, students will take one complementary course in Sociology; Economics; or Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, which focusses on a particular population issue such as population health, migration, aging, family dynamics, and labour markets and skills acquisition. Students will attend at least five of the seminars given in the Social Statistics and Population Dynamics Seminar series. Dissertation topics must be related to population dynamics and approved by the PDO coordinating committee.
Thesis
A thesis for the doctoral degree must constitute original scholarship and must be a distinct contribution to knowledge. It must show familiarity with previous work in the field and must demonstrate ability to plan and carry out research, organize results, and defend the approach and conclusions in a scholarly manner. The research presented must meet current standards of the discipline; as well, the thesis must clearly demonstrate how the research advances knowledge in the field. Finally, the thesis must be written in compliance with norms for academic and scholarly expression and for publication in the public domain.
Required Courses (6 credits)
A minimum of three years of study is required.
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SOCI 545 Sociology of Population (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The classic literature of sociology of population. Drawing reciprocal linkages between social and population processes: Historical, family and labour force demography, demographic and fertility transitions, mortality, ethnic and race relations, gender, macro-structural interaction theory, and the relation of population and the environment.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Torrisi, Orsola (Fall)
Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or equivalent
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SOCI 625D1 Professional Development Seminar in Sociology
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Professional development of incoming graduate students in sociology.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: McMahan, Peter (Fall)
Course will be offered every other week, during the Fall and Winter terms, for a duration of one hour.
Restrictions: Open to incoming graduate students in the Department of Sociology.
Students must register at the same time for SOCI 625 D1 and SOCI 625D2.
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SOCI 625D2 Professional Development Seminar in Sociology
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Professional development of incoming graduate students in sociology.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: McMahan, Peter (Winter)
Course will be offered every other week, during the Fall and Winter terms, for a duration of one hour.
Restrictions: Open to incoming graduate students in the Department of Sociology.
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SOCI 626 Demographic Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Introduction to demographic measurement and modeling. Course covers direct and indirect estimation, standardization, life table construction, and population projections.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Torrisi, Orsola (Winter)
Specific topics may vary from semester to semester.
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SOCI 702 Ph.D. Proposal Approval
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Presentation and acceptance of the Ph.D. Proposal Defense by the student to the Department Proposal Committee.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Only open to Ph.D. students in the Sociology Department
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SOCI 703 Bibliographic Methods 3
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Further development of research-related skills and the production of a research bibliography under the supervision of a faculty member.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Restricted to Sociology Ph.D. students.
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SOCI 704 Bibliographic Methods 4
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Further development of research-related skills and the production of a research bibliography under the supervision of a faculty member.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Restricted to Sociology Ph.D. students.
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SOCI 705 PhD Comprehensive Examination
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The Comprehensive Examination in Sociology provides an opportunity for students to read broadly in two sub-fields within the discipline, after which they take a written examination that assesses their competence in each sub-field. Students are required to be examined in two of the ten areas of specialization identified by the Department. The comprehensive examination must be successfully passed by all doctoral candidates in order to continue in the doctoral program.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Ph.D. candidates must take a comprehensive examination in two sub-fields within sociology by August of their Ph.D. 3 year. These fields will be chosen from the Department's areas of specialization. In this option, one of these fields must be in Population Dynamics.
Ph.D. candidates are required to submit a thesis on an approved topic. The topic must be approved by a dissertation proposal committee convened by the student's dissertation supervisor. The thesis should be completed within five years after the initial residency period of two to three years.
Further details on the requirements and regulations for the thesis and the fields in which the Department is prepared to direct research may be obtained from the Sociology website at and at .
Complementary Courses
(9-21 credits)
3-6 credits within the Department from the following:
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SOCI 502 Sociology of Fertility (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : An upper-level course that will cover the major theories and findings from the social scientific study of fertility behavior. Readings and discussion will focus on the causal linkages between social change and transitions in fertility behavior. We will examine contemporary and historical fertility behavior and transitions across the globe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction(s): Open to graduate students and final year undergraduates
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SOCI 506 Quantitative Methods 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Advanced statistical analyses focusing on advanced methods such as event history analysis and analysis of contingency tables.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: SOCI 504 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
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SOCI 507 Social Change (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : An examination of the major sociological theories of long term macro social change. Topics include why industrialization began in Europe instead of Asia, the divergence among societies in systems of class, gender, ethnic and racial inequality, and whether industrial society has entered a new post-industrial or post-modern phase.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken SOCI 672. Undergraduates by permission of instructor only.
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SOCI 508 Medical Sociology and Social Psychiatry (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The social construction of mental illness and disease, the personal and professional definition and recognition of illness, the distribution and determinants of illness, disease, sickness in the population, and the politics of medical research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 510 Seminar in Social Stratification (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Recent theoretical and empirical developments in social stratification and inequality. The study of social class, with attention to the anomalous findings on heterogeneity in labour markets and the labour process, status attainment processes, and the socio-political and industrial attitudes of the working class. Students will prepare quantitative analysis of Canadian survey material as well as critical qualitative reviews.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 512 Ethnicity and Public Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Major themes in the theoretical literature on ethnicity. Public policies with direct and indirect implications for inter-ethnic relations will be studied. Policies affecting areas such as language, education, immigration, employment and promotion, multiculturalism and welfare. Examples drawn from several multi-ethnic societies. Political, constitutional, and economic problems associated with these policy initiatives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 513 Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Examination of the social causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Gender inequality, sexual behaviours, marriage systems, migration, and poverty are shaping the pandemic as well as how the pandemic is altering social, demographic and economic conditions across Africa.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 514 Criminology (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : A survey of the major schools of thought that have developed to explain criminal behaviour from the emergence of modern criminology in the 18th and 19th centuries to current debates.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Carmichael, Jason (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.
Note: Grad students and U3 students only.
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SOCI 515 Medicine and Society (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The sociology of health and illness. Reading in areas of interest, such as: the sociology of illness, health services occupations, organizational settings of health care, the politics of change in national health service systems, and contemporary ethical issues in medical care and research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
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SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Weiner, Elaine (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 270 or permission of instructor.
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SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Soehl, Thomas (Winter)
Prerequisite: 15 credits in the Social Sciences
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SOCI 525 Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Quesnel Vall茅e, Am茅lie (Winter)
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SOCI 526 Indigenous Women's Health and Healthcare
(3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course examines (i) the health status of Indigenous women in Canada, (ii) Indigenous ways of knowing about health, (iii) healthcare services, delivery, and access for Indigenous women in rural and remote areas as well as in urban centres, (iv) and participatory health research with Indigenous communities.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restrictions: Undergraduate students must obtain permission of instructor to enroll in the course.
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SOCI 529 Political Sociology 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Key theories and empirical areas of political sociology. Major works relevant to each theme will be read and analyzed. Topics include: political socialization, the social psychology of political behaviour, class and politics, political organizations, elite studies. A research paper in one of the areas covered will be required.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: SOCI 330
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SOCI 530 Sex and Gender (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar critically reviews theoretical perspectives and research on sex and gender in various domains of social life. It gives special emphasis to work which considers the meaning of gender and how it differs across time and place.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Open to Honours Sociology students and to Sociology Majors with the permission of the instructor
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SOCI 535 Sociology of the Family (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar reviews literature on major research areas in family. The course examines families in the past, the study of family using a life course approach, and considers selective areas which may have had significant influences on contemporary family such as work and family, family violence, and cultural variation in families.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
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SOCI 538 Selected Topics in Sociology of Biomedical Knowledge (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The seminar will examine recent work in the sociology of biomedical knowledge. It will focus on the technological shaping of biomedical knowledge, i.e., on the impact of new technologies and equipments on the development of biomedical knowledge.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 550 Developing Societies (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 555 Comparative Historical Sociology (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The analysis of patterns of state and nation-building in historical and comparative perspectives with particular attention being given to methodology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
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SOCI 571 Deviance and Social Control (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar focuses on how social groups enforce rules (and maintain social order) through coercion and socialization. It reviews current research and critiques key theoretical approaches to social control. Included are discussions of regulating institutions such as prisons and mental asylums, and the roles of gossip, manners and etiquettes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 588 Biosociology/Biodemography (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course will explore linkages between social and biological systems, their influence on health and well-being over the life course, and on health disparities. Topics include classical sociological approaches to biosocial processes, sociobiology (reductionist, but population-based), and newer demographic studies on gen-environment, epigenetic, and stress-metabolic/allostatic processes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 590 Social Conflict and Violence (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course examines recent theory and research on the comparative study of social conflict and political violence. Topics covered include the causes and consequences of international wars, state repression, civil violence, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Shor, Eran (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210
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SOCI 601 Qualitative Research Methods 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Qualitative data interpretation and analysis. Coding, identifying themes and memo-writing. Students conclude their qualitative research project, writing up findings in the form of a publishable-quality paper.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Wang, Skyler (Fall)
Seminar will be offered once a week, during the Fall term, for a duration of two hours (1x2).
Prerequisite: SOCI 600
Restrictions: Permission of instructor.
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SOCI 620 Quantitative Methods 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course provides an introduction to generalized linear models for analyzing categorical and correlated data. The main topics include: (1) logistic/probit models (including multinomial logit, logit models for ordinal data) and (2) Extensions to multilevel and panel data analysis. The exposition covers model specification,estimation, hypothesis testing, remedies for violations of statistical assumptions, and interpretation of the results. The emphasis is on applications of these models in social science research, and research articles in sociology are used to illustrate the application of these models and techniques.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: McMahan, Peter (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 504 or equivalent
Restriction(s): Premission of instructor.
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SOCI 621 Fixed and Random Effects (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Fixed and random effect regression. Emphasis on longitudinal panel data and hierarchical data.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: SOCI 504 or equivalent
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SOCI 622 Event History Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Applied introduction to event history analysis, a set of statistical methods used to analyze changes from one state to another (i.e. transitions) and the effects of independent variables on the timing and likelihood of these transitions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: SOCI 504 or equivalent
Restrictions: Permission of instructor.
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SOCI 623 Latent Variable Models (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Latent variable models attempt to explain complex relations between manifest/observed variables by simple relations between these variables and an underlying unobservable or 鈥渓atent鈥� structure. Topics include both cross-sectional (Latent Class, factor analysis) and longitudinal (Latent Transition/Hidden Markov, Latent Class Growth Analysis, Growth Mixture Models) versions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: SOCI 504 or equivalent
Restrictions: Permission of instructor.
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SOCI 624 Social Networks (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Social networks from various standpoints, including classical theory, formal models, methods for empirical analysis, and substantive applications.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: SOCI 652 or Permission of Instructor
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SOCI 631D1 Informing Social Policy with Canadian Data (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Tools needed to work with complex Canadian surveys in order to address social issues. Theoretical sessions given by experts from the academic community and statistical agencies are combined with laboratory workshops where students apply advanced statistical methods to survey data and complete their own research projects.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: Advanced undergraduate course in statistics (SOCI 461 or equivalent); passive bilinguism (French and English); and permission of the instructor
Passive bilingualism (English and French) required, as training will be given in both languages. Maximum enrollment: 12. With permission of the instructor. The course is offered over 2 semesters, and meets 6 hours every 2 weeks.
Students must register for both SOCI 631D1 and SOCI 631D2.
No credit will be given for this course unless both SOCI 631D1 and SOCI 631D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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SOCI 631D2 Informing Social Policy with Canadian Data (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Tools needed to work with complex Canadian surveys in order to address social issues. Theoretical sessions given by experts from the academic community and statistical agencies are combined with laboratory workshops where students apply advanced statistical methods to survey data and complete their own research projects.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: SOCI 631D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both SOCI 631D1 and SOCI 631D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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SOCI 720 Reading in Social Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Supervised readings in social theory supervised by a member of staff. Topics will be chosen to suit individual interests.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 730 Reading and Research (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Supervised readings and research supervised by a memeber of staff. Topics will be chosen to suit individual interests.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
0-3 credits from the following:
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ECON 634 Economic Development 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : A systematic treatment of the characteristics and problems of economic development in underdeveloped countries.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Grimard, Franque (Fall)
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ECON 641 Labour Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : A synthesis of theoretical developments in the area of labour economics with stress upon problems of empirical testing.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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ECON 734 Economic Development 4 (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Problems of economic growth and planning in selected underdeveloped countries. Topics covered vary from year to year in response to student interests; growth, poverty and income distribution, LDC labour markets and institutions, trade and development, international debt problems, issues in trade policy.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Grimard, Franque; Amodio, Francesco (Winter)
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ECON 741 Advanced Labour Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Selected theoretical and policy issues in labour economics.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Saltiel, Fernando (Fall)
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ECON 742 Empirical Microeconomics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Surveys the empirical techniques used in applied microeconomic fields, particularly development and labour economics. Focus is on the formulation of empirical models derived from economic theory, and on various estimation methodologies, including panel data econometrics, limited dependent variable models, and duration analysis. A "hands on" approach is emphasized.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Chaudhuri, Saraswata (Fall)
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ECON 744 Health Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : The emphasis will be on describing and analyzing the structure and performance of the Canadian health system, though some attention will be given to recent attempts by the federal and provincial governments to deal with current problems in this field. Readings will be selected from the economics and health literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EPIB 648 Methods in Social Epidemiology (3 credits)
Overview
Epidemiology & Biostatistics : Methods for conducting studies in social epidemiology and population health will be covered. Topics will include causal inference; measurement and concepts of social exposures; methods for study design and analysis. Techniques for descriptive and etiologic investigations of socioeconomic position, gender, race and ethnicity, geography, and social policies will be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Yang, Seungmi (Fall)
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EPIB 681 Global Health: Epidemiological Research (3 credits)
Overview
Epidemiology & Biostatistics : A review of selected epidemiological research focussing on global health and disease topics. Research will be mostly from developing countries and research methods will be highlighted. Case studies will be used to illustrate specific applications and challenges.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisite: With permission of instructor.
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PPHS 501 Population Health and Epidemiology (3 credits)
Overview
PPHS : This course presents concepts and methods of epidemiology at the introductory level. The use of epidemiologic methods for population and public health research and practice will be illustrated. A review of selected population health questions such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the cardiovascular disease epidemic, cigarette smoking, or screening for disease will be presented.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Banerjee, Ananya (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 501.
Course not open to students enrolled in Epidemiology or Public Health programs.
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PPHS 525 Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective (3 credits)
Overview
PPHS : Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Quesnel Vall茅e, Am茅lie (Winter)
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PPHS 527 Economics for Health Services Research and Policy (3 credits)
Overview
PPHS : Key health policy topics in developed economies using analytic frameworks and tools from economics. Major topics include health insurance, health care financing, and the roles of individuals and public and private institutions in the health care system.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 527.
NOTE: This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments, with the permission of the instructor. A background in introductory economics is useful, though not required.
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PPHS 528 Economic Evaluation of Health Programs (3 credits)
Overview
PPHS : Concepts and methods used to carry out economic evaluations of health programs and interventions, including public health interventions, pharmaceuticals, and other health care interventions. Includes topics such as calculation of unit costs, measurement of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and assessment of uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Russell, Alton (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 528.
No prior background in economics is required.
Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments.
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PPHS 529 Global Environmental Health and Burden of Disease (3 credits)
Overview
PPHS : This course presents the grand challenges in global health from environmental and occupational risks along with the multi-disciplinary methods used to identify, control, and prevent them. It will introduce students to knowledge and skills in core disciplines of environmental health and approaches to environmental risk recognition, control and prevention in a global context.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Weichenthal, Scott Andrew (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 529.
1. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students.
2.This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments.
3. Previous coursework in statistics and environmental science is useful, though not required.
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PPHS 615 Introduction to Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3 credits)
Overview
PPHS : Introduction to the field of infectious disease epidemiology taught from a public health perspective. Topics include analytic methods, study design, outbreak investigations, surveillance, vaccine development and evaluations, screening, modelling, and infectious causes of cancer or chronic diseases.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Merckx, Joanna-Trees (Fall)
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SOCI 502 Sociology of Fertility (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : An upper-level course that will cover the major theories and findings from the social scientific study of fertility behavior. Readings and discussion will focus on the causal linkages between social change and transitions in fertility behavior. We will examine contemporary and historical fertility behavior and transitions across the globe.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction(s): Open to graduate students and final year undergraduates
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SOCI 512 Ethnicity and Public Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Major themes in the theoretical literature on ethnicity. Public policies with direct and indirect implications for inter-ethnic relations will be studied. Policies affecting areas such as language, education, immigration, employment and promotion, multiculturalism and welfare. Examples drawn from several multi-ethnic societies. Political, constitutional, and economic problems associated with these policy initiatives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 513 Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Examination of the social causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Gender inequality, sexual behaviours, marriage systems, migration, and poverty are shaping the pandemic as well as how the pandemic is altering social, demographic and economic conditions across Africa.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Soehl, Thomas (Winter)
Prerequisite: 15 credits in the Social Sciences
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SOCI 525 Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Quesnel Vall茅e, Am茅lie (Winter)
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SOCI 535 Sociology of the Family (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This seminar reviews literature on major research areas in family. The course examines families in the past, the study of family using a life course approach, and considers selective areas which may have had significant influences on contemporary family such as work and family, family violence, and cultural variation in families.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
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SOCI 588 Biosociology/Biodemography (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course will explore linkages between social and biological systems, their influence on health and well-being over the life course, and on health disparities. Topics include classical sociological approaches to biosocial processes, sociobiology (reductionist, but population-based), and newer demographic studies on gen-environment, epigenetic, and stress-metabolic/allostatic processes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
3 credits from the following streams:
Qualitative Stream:
3 credits from the following:
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SOCI 601 Qualitative Research Methods 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Qualitative data interpretation and analysis. Coding, identifying themes and memo-writing. Students conclude their qualitative research project, writing up findings in the form of a publishable-quality paper.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Wang, Skyler (Fall)
Seminar will be offered once a week, during the Fall term, for a duration of two hours (1x2).
Prerequisite: SOCI 600
Restrictions: Permission of instructor.
Quantitative Stream:
3 credits from the following:
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SOCI 620 Quantitative Methods 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : This course provides an introduction to generalized linear models for analyzing categorical and correlated data. The main topics include: (1) logistic/probit models (including multinomial logit, logit models for ordinal data) and (2) Extensions to multilevel and panel data analysis. The exposition covers model specification,estimation, hypothesis testing, remedies for violations of statistical assumptions, and interpretation of the results. The emphasis is on applications of these models in social science research, and research articles in sociology are used to illustrate the application of these models and techniques.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: McMahan, Peter (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 504 or equivalent
Restriction(s): Premission of instructor.
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SOCI 621 Fixed and Random Effects (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Fixed and random effect regression. Emphasis on longitudinal panel data and hierarchical data.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: SOCI 504 or equivalent
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SOCI 622 Event History Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Applied introduction to event history analysis, a set of statistical methods used to analyze changes from one state to another (i.e. transitions) and the effects of independent variables on the timing and likelihood of these transitions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: SOCI 504 or equivalent
Restrictions: Permission of instructor.
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SOCI 623 Latent Variable Models (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Latent variable models attempt to explain complex relations between manifest/observed variables by simple relations between these variables and an underlying unobservable or 鈥渓atent鈥� structure. Topics include both cross-sectional (Latent Class, factor analysis) and longitudinal (Latent Transition/Hidden Markov, Latent Class Growth Analysis, Growth Mixture Models) versions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: SOCI 504 or equivalent
Restrictions: Permission of instructor.
0-12 credits from the following:
Students who have not taken the courses listed below must make up the deficiencies in addition to the regular coursework:
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SOCI 504 Quantitative Methods 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : An introduction to basic regression techniques commonly used in the social sciences. Covers the least squares linear regression model in depth and may introduce models for discrete dependent variables as well as the maximum-likelihood approach to statistical inference. Emphasis on the assumptions behind regression models and correct interpretation of results. Assignments will emphasize practical aspects of quantitative analysis.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Clark, Shelley (Fall)
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SOCI 580 Social Research Design and Practice (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Asking researchable sociological questions and evaluation of different research designs used to answer such questions. Development of cogent research proposals, including data collection procedures. Principles, dynamics, strengths and practical limitations of research designs. Examples from recent publications.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Shor, Eran (Fall)
Restriction: Open to U3 and graduate students
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SOCI 600 Qualitative Research Methods 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Overview of qualitative research design and modes of data collection, particularly observation, interviewing and focus groups. Students are required to design and undertake their own qualitative research project. Introduction to computerized tools for qualitative data management, transcription and analysis.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Pike, Isabel (Winter)
Restrictions: Permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken SOCI 540.
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SOCI 652 Current Sociological Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : Examination of works in some major areas of Sociology with a focus on: antecedent thought and research in the area; the internal structure and consistency of these works; the validity of the major claims made; and the implications for future theoretical development and research.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: van den Berg, Axel (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 330
If you are admitted at the Ph.D. 1 level and an exemption is obtained for one or more of the four courses above, another one must then be substituted in its place.
