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GISD Courses

Qualifying and Required Courses for the GISD

Courses for the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Demography (GISD) must be selected from the approved courses list.

The GISD requires at least 10 but no more than 20 hours of graduate-level coursework, including two required courses: 

  • A proseminar (SOC/PUBHLTH 8802)
  • Introduction to Demographic Analysis (SOC 7753)

Your course list for the GISD must be approved by your advisor and the GISD coordinator. You must complete the GIS advising sheets and send it to GISD coordinator, Reanne Frank, frank.219@osu.edu, prior to submitting your on-line application via Gradforms.

DepartmentNumberTitle
AEDECON6400Regional and International Development 
ANTHROP5505Wicked Science (crosslisted with EEOB) 
 7004Social-Ecological Systems (crosslisted with ENR) 
CRPLAN5001Introduction to GIS for Planning
CSE5523Machine Learning and Statistical Pattern Recognition
 5544Introduction to Data Visualization
 6520Foundations of Applied AI for Non-Majors 
ECON5850Labor Economics
 6731Survey of Econometric Methods I 
 8732Econometrics II
 8733Econometrics III
 8853Labor Economics III
ESQREM8725Quantitative Methods Capstone Seminar 
ESQUAL8290Qualitative Research in Education: Methods and Analysis 
GEOG5103Intermediate Spatial Data Analysis 
 5210Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems  
HDFS7350Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood 
 8820Theoretical perspectives on the Family 
 8862Seminar in Human Development and Family Sciences 
PSYCH6870Basic Principles of Social Psychology
 7708Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making 
POLYSCI7140Race and Ethnicity 
PUBAFRS6000Public Policy Formulation and Implementation
 7574Mixed Methods Approaches for Policy-Related Research (crosslisted with HTHRHSC) 
PUBHLTH7000Public Health in Developing Countries 
PUBHEPI6410Principles of Epidemiology
 6440Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology 
PUBHHMP7686Qualitative Methods for Health Research 
PUBHEHS6325Climate Change and Human Health
 6330Environmental Epigenetics 
RURLSOC5540Population, Place and Environment 
SOCIOL5650Presenting and Communicating Quantitative Data 
 8802Seminar for Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Demography
SOCWORK7570Policy Analysis and Social Legislation Process 
STAT6500Statistical Machine Learning 
WGSST8800.01Topics in Feminist Studies