Training in Demography

描述（申请人提供）：布朗大学人口研究与培训中心要求支持人口统计学的多学科培训。这份申请要求招收7名博士预科生。人口统计学的学员将成为社会学、经济学和人类学的研究生。作为人口统计学培训生，他们要完成一门特别设计的人口研究课程，包括课程作业、研究培训和独立的论文研究。PSTC在人口研究和培训方面有着悠久的历史，其计划强调人口研究的多学科性质。在这份延续申请中，我们提供了新的证据，证明布朗大学的人口研究和培训中心受益于强有力的制度支持，包括大大改善的新空间，优秀而稳定的教师队伍，有凝聚力的现代跨学科培训计划，以及招聘优秀学生的良好记录。我们还强调了培训计划的重要创新，包括一个新的团队教授多学科必修课程，将研究学徒制正式化，作为加强学科培训的一种方式，以及必修的跨学科课程要求，以加强跨学科交流。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Studies and Training Center of Brown University requests support for multidisciplinary training in demography. This application asks for seven pre-doctoral trainees. Trainees in demography enroll as graduate students in sociology, economics, and anthropology. As demography trainees, they complete a specially designed curriculum in population studies involving coursework, research training, and independent dissertation research. The PSTC has a long history of research and training in population and its program emphasizes the multi-disciplinary nature of population research. In this continuation application, we provide fresh evidence that the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown benefits from strong institutional support, including vastly improved new space, an outstanding and stable faculty, a cohesive modern interdisciplinary training program, and a track record of recruitment of outstanding students with a strong record of success. We also highlight important innovations to our training program that include a new team taught multi-disciplinary required courses, a formalization of research apprenticeship as a way of enhancing disciplinary training, and a required cross-disciplinary course requirement as a way of enhancing interdisciplinary communication.