Using the ACS to Introduce Demographic Approaches in Undergraduate Courses

摘要 这个更新项目建立在最初授予期间成功的前五年进展的基础上， 利用美国社区调查（ACS）的数据和课程材料，介绍人口 在广泛的课程中向本科生提供观点。该项目将使基于ACS的课程 在许多本科课程中向本科生提供材料，以便使他们接触人口统计学 适用于不同学科领域的方法，以及人口相关职业的途径 领域的ACS作为美国人口普查长表的继承者，为本科生提供了以下潜力： 探索广泛的主题。通过这种探索，本科生遇到人口统计学 观点，使他们熟悉框架、概念和分析技术， 人口学家使用，从而使他们在课程内容中接触人口学领域， 这必然与人口研究有关。这个更新项目将更新和扩大数据的创建 和课程材料，可供本科生，通过直接与本科生 教师在讲习班和后续网络研讨会，并加强我们的通用网络教学材料。 此外，应先前参加者和审查者的要求， 通过为有兴趣访问ACS数据的教师引入高级分析培训层， 复杂的软件和门户网站。此外，通过与研究生培训人口方案合作， 和教师教师网络，该项目的网站和工作人员将提供信息感兴趣的 大学生了解人口领域的研究生培训和职业，并积极努力将他们联系起来。 这些机会。

ABSTRACT This renewal project builds on the successful first five years of progress during the initial award, which focused on utilizing American Community Survey (ACS) data and curricular materials to introduce demographic perspectives to undergraduates in a wide spectrum of courses. This project will make ACS-based curricular materials available to undergraduates in many undergraduate courses in order to expose them to demographic approaches as applied to different subject areas, as well as to pathways toward careers in population related fields. The ACS, as a successor to the US Census long form, provides the potential for undergraduates to explore a wide range of topics. Through this exploration, undergraduates encounter demographic perspectives, in a way that will familiarize them with frameworks, concepts and analysis techniques commonly utilized by demographers, thus exposing them to the field of demography in courses whose content they do not necessarily associate with population studies. This renewal project will update and expand the creation of data and curricular materials that are accessible to undergraduates, by working directly with undergraduate teachers in workshops and follow up webinars, and by enhancing our general use web instructional materials. Further, in response to requests by earlier participants and reviewers, it will broaden the training opportunities by introducing an advanced analysis tier of training for teachers interested in accessing ACS data with more sophisticated software and web portals. In addition, by working with graduate training population programs and the faculty teacher network, the project's website and staff will provide information to interested undergraduates about graduate training and careers in the population field and work actively to connect them with those opportunities.