Internal Migration in the United States: Methods, Models, and Theories

5 credits

Provides overview of internal migration in the United States and theories of migration that attempt to explain why and where people migrate. Explains how to access and process U.S. internal migration survey and administrative data. Covers statistical and visualization methods for analyzing these data to summarize geographical and temporal trends in U.S. internal migration. Recommended: familiarity with the R programming language (or similar programming language) and RStudio; and either GEOG 315, GEOG 317, GEOG 326, or GEOG 360.