SOCb2589 Population Changes

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2019
Rozsah
1/1/0. 9 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Dr. Zuzanna Brzozowska, M.Sc., M.A. (přednášející)
Garance
Dr. Zuzanna Brzozowska, M.Sc., M.A.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
každé sudé pondělí 10:00–13:40 PC25
Předpoklady
!NOW( SOC289 Population Changes ) && ! SOC289 Population Changes
There are no formally enforced prerequisites, but some interest in qualitative and quantitative societal changes and in using Excel will make your course participation more efficient. This is a BA level course and this defines the teaching style, the anticipated workload, and the level of student involvement. The course will be given as lectures (50%) and computer labs (50%). Reasonable ability to write and speak in English is anticipated.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 15 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/15, pouze zareg.: 0/15, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/15
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This is an introductory course to population studies with a strong practical component: it will help understand the demographic changes in contemporary developed societies (mostly in Europe) and teach some basic tools to describe and analyse these changes. We will discuss the causes and consequences of fertility, mortality and migration trends, population ageing and de-standardisation of family forms. During the lab sessions, you will learn where to look for comparative demographic data and how to compute, visualise and interpret basic demographic indicators. We will do all analyses in Excel.
Výstupy z učení
Student po úspěšném absolvování kurzu:
(a) bude znát základní pojmy demografie
(b) bude schopen formulovat výklad demografických jevů pomoci sociologických pojmů
Osnova
  • Seminar 1: Lecture: Organizational and administrative issues; Introduction: main topics of population studies; Key dimensions of population structure Lab: Constructing population pyramid; computing, visualising and interpreting basic indicators (e.g. different kinds of age dependency ratio) Seminar 2: Lecture: Fertility: measures, trends and implications Lab: Computing, visualising and interpreting different kinds of fertility indicators Seminar 3 Lecture: Mortality, morbidity and health Lab: Computing and interpreting life expectancy at different age; computing, visualising and interpreting mortality indicators Seminar 4: Lecture: People on the move: migration yesterday and today Lab: Computing, visualising and interpreting in- and outflows vs. stocks of migrants Seminar 5: Lecture: Future population: forecasting Lab: Population forecasting Seminar 6: Participants’ presentations
Literatura
  • Paul Demeny & Geoffrey McNicoll (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Population, 2003, Macmillan Reference USA.
  • LUNDQUIST, Jennifer Hickes, Douglas L. ANDERTON a David YAUKEY. Demography : the study of human population. Fourth edition. Long Grove: Waveland Press, 2015, xix, 476. ISBN 9781478613060. info
  • Handbook of population. Edited by Dudley L. Poston - Michael Micklin. New York: Springer, 2006, xiii, 918. ISBN 0387257020. info
Výukové metody
Lectures, discussions, presentations, computer lab.
Metody hodnocení
Grading consists of four parts: five short tests covering material of the most recent class and readings (5 x 3 points = maximum 15 points, 15%), six assignments (6 x 5 points = max. 30 points, 30%), research report (max. 35 points, 35%) and its oral PowerPoint presentation (max. 20 points, 20%).
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
  • Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
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