Demography

The Certificate Program in Demography offers courses and seminars for 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 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, fellowships in demography are available through the Institute.