Master
2023/2024
Research Seminar "Population and Development"
Type:
Compulsory course (Population and Development)
Area of studies:
Public Administration
Delivered by:
Department of Demography
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
2 year, 1-3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Olga V. Biryukova,
Ilya Ermolin,
Kirill. V. Kuznetsov,
Ksenia Rozhkova,
Nadezhda Shilova
Master’s programme:
Population and Development
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course introduces the students with the basic concepts of economic and human development, problems of inequality and basic demographic challenges. It combines some theoretical models with broad empirical evidence. Within the discipline students can realize the interconnections between social and economic development and demographic behavior The discipline is an obligatory three modules course for first-year students of the Master Program with specialization at ‘Population and Development’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The discipline is taught in English. The prerequisites are the basics knowledge of geography, economics, history, social sciences and statistics.