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EconomicsThe Department of Economics offers graduate study in the following principal areas: economic theory, econometrics, public finance and taxation, industrial organization, labor economics, monetary economics, international economics, comparative economic systems, economic development, economic history, and mathematical economics. HistoryThe Department of History offers graduate study in most fields of history, including the History of Science and Medicine. Faculty specialties within this field include the history of medicine and natural history, the history of epidemics, the scientific revolution, alchemy and magic, the history of technology, and America in the nuclear age. Students specializing in this area may also take advantage of the interdisciplinary course offerings in the program in the History and Philosophy of Science. Human DevelopmentThe Human Development Graduate Group studies the theories, methods, and accumulated research that provide the basis for the expanding knowledge of human behavioral development. Students select areas of emphasis from course work focusing on a life cycle phase (i.e., infancy - adolescence, adulthood). In addition, a developmental domain is chosen (biological, social-emotional, or cognitive educational) emphasizing the contexts within which human development takes place (families, schools, hospitals, etc.). Preparation requires an undergraduate major in the biological or social sciences. Students with prior work in genetics, human development, psychology or physiology are particularly suited to the program. PsychologyThe Department of Psychology offers graduate study in three major areas: psychobiology (physiological and comparative psychology), social-personality, and perception and cognition. Developmental psychology is represented in all three areas. Specific areas of interest include ontogeny and adaptive significance of behavior, cognitive mapping in childhood, language and self concept development, visual perception, consciousness, learning and memory, language processing, cross-cultural studies of personality, psychology of gender, development, maturation and decline of visual and auditory senses, behavioral and hormonal interactions, social cognition, environmental psychology, cultural correlates of social change, and the social construction of emotion. SociologyThe department has special strengths in self, symbols and social interaction; organizations and public policy; political economy and development; family, gender and population; law and society; urban, ethnic and community studies; energy and environment; social conflict and change; social theory, and historical and comparative sociology. StatisticsThe aim of the dual MD/PhD (Statistics) program is to provide MD's with research qualifications in statistics and biostatistics at the PhD level. While there are excellent opportunities for such individuals, only a few people so far have this combination of degrees. The emphasis of the statistical curriculum for candidates in this program will be in biostatistics and medical statistics; a solid theoretical background as well as data analysis, consulting and computing skills are to be acquired as well. |
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