International Max Planck Research School for Demography

Courses

Courselist - Summer Semester 2012

Past Courses

IMPRSD Course Numbering System

The first digit of a course number describes the length of the course: 1 designates courses that are one or two weeks long, 2 designates courses that are more than two weeks long but less than a semester long, and 3 designates courses that run for an entire semester.

The next two digits describe the general topic of the course, as follows:

• 00-09: event-history analysis and other statistical methods; research design
• 10-19: formal demography and modeling, simulation, and forecasting methods
• 20-29: fertility and family dynamics
• 30-39: mortality, morbidity, longevity, population aging
• 40-49: economic demography and population/economic/environment interactions
• 50-59: migration and spatial demography
• 60-69: topics related to particular countries or regions
• 70-79: historical demography; history of demographic thinking
• 80-89: other topics
• 90-99: student research seminars and the like

Credit

IMPRSD courses offered in Rostock will ordinarily require about four hours of work outside the classroom for every hour of instruction. Hence a course that meets for three hours per week for fifteen weeks would require approximately 180 hours of homework in addition to the 45 hours of classroom time, for a total of about 225 hours. In many university systems in Europe, course credits are assigned such that one credit corresponds to one week's full-time work for a normal student. In this case, a course with about 225 hours of work would be worth 5 or 6 such credits.

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