Worried about what to do post-graduation? Consider UCI’s 9-month, interdisciplinary MA program in Demographic & Social Analysis.
http://www.demography.uci.edu/ma_program.html
One interdisciplinary program, two degree options
The DASA program is organized around the interdisciplinary field of demography and draws faculty and courses mainly from the Schools of Social Sciences and Social Ecology. Depending on the path of admission, a student who completes the program will earn one of the following degrees:
– M. A. in Social Sciences (Concentration in Demographic and Social Analysis)
– M. A. in Social Ecology (Concentration in Demographic and Social Analysis)
The nine-month Master of Arts curriculum is integrated with the introductory graduate courses in each of the two schools, and includes population theory, research design, descriptive and inferential statistics, and demographic methods. These core courses are complemented by a varying menu of population-relevant electives. The academic year culminates in either an oral exam (Social Sciences) or a thesis (Social Ecology).
At present, students may apply for direct admission into DASA only through Social Sciences. (The DASA degree in Social Ecology is presently an option only for students who have already been admitted to doctoral study. Further information about DASA certification for Social Ecology Ph.D. students may be found by clicking here.) The sample course rubric (below) applies to the Social Sciences pathway.
COURSES |
Required (core) courses are shown below, in bold. Whereas core courses remain the same year-in and year-out, elective offerings vary. The sample electives are compiled from past offerings by DASA faculty. Actual choices extend beyond this sample list. Also, students who have not completed an undergraduate statistics class with a grade of B or better have several ways to demonstrate required competence before enrolling in Grad Statistics II.
Rubric for DASA (Social Sciences Pathway) |
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FALL |
WINTER |
SPRING |
Population |
Grad Statistics II |
Grad Statistics III |
I. Fall electives (partial listing)
Housing (Basolo)-U225
Immigration Dynamics (Bean)-Soc 269A
Transportation Planning (Boarnet)-U212
Race & Ethnicity (Lee)-Soc 230A
Applied Regression Analysis (McCleary)-E266B
Geographic Information Systems (Tita)-J100
II. Winter electives (partial listing)
Intro to Clinical Epidemiology (Kaplan) Tox 210
Transnational Migration (Chavez)-Anthro 235A
Demographics for Planning & Policy (Chew)-U275A
Health Policy and Promotion (Jacobson)-U275
Immigration & the New Second Generation (Lee)-Soc 269
Environmental Ethics (Matthew)-U275B
Ecological Modeling (McCleary)-E252
Descriptive Multivariate Statistics I (Newcomb)-SE290A
Global Urbanization (Smith)-Soc 252A
Spatial Analysis (Tita)-SE275F
Educational Inequality (Feliciano)-Soc 239
Demography of the Suburban Experience (Brown)-Soc 269
III. Spring electives (partial listing)
Gender Inequality (Huffman, Read)-Soc 239
California’s Population (Chew)-E112
GIS in Demography (DeVoy)-Soc 229
Analysis of Social Network Data (Faust)-Soc 259
Comparative International Migration (Liu)-Soc 259
Analysis of Survival Data (McCleary)-SE266D
Families and Households (Treas)-Soc 260