Demography

2021/2022

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Кафедра демографии (Институт демографии имени А.Г. Вишневского)

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Преподаватели

Исупова Ольга Генриховна

Козлов Владимир Александрович

Щур Алексей Евгеньевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is devoted to the role of demography in the system of social studies and the relations between demographic and social economic processes. The aim of the course is to give the student the main ideas of demographic processes, methods of data collection, and data analysis, current approaches and techniques in demographic analysis (f.e. standardization, basic models and life tables) and the interpretation of the demographic results as well as their intake in decision making process. The discipline is an obligatory two 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 mathematics, statistics, geography, economics and social sciences.

Learning Objectives

• - the students will understand the nature of demographic processes and their principles, as well as the reasons for the demographic structures and their consequences
• - the students will understand the nature of demographic processes and their principles, as well as the reasons for the demographic structures and their consequences The students will be able to interpret demographic factors and measures, estimate the demographic situation in the country and the region, explain the dynamics of population (quantity and structures) The students will get the skills of basic demographic analysis
• The students will be able to interpret demographic factors and measures, estimate the demographic situation in the country and the region, explain the dynamics of population (quantity and structures)
• The students will get the skills of basic demographic analysis

Expected Learning Outcomes

• The student understand the main adjustments in demographic analysis and the role of structures and the cohorts
• The student understand the methods and validity of demographic forecasts. Also the purposes and instuments of demographic policy
• The student understands the main definition of migration studies and main research problems from this topic. The role of migration in development (demographic, social, economic)
• The student understands the main factors influencing fertility, the ideas of the general and total rates, cohort analysis
• The students understands the main factors of mortality and morbidity, the ideas of life tables and standatrization
• The students understands the origins of demography and the main definitions

Course Contents

• Demographic structures and demographic analysis
• Introduction and sources
• Mortality and morbidity
• Fertility and nuptality
• Population policy
• Migration

Assessment Elements

• Seminar activity
• Test preliminary
• Hometasks made disctantly (3 tasks)
• Exam (written test)

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 2nd module
  0.4 * Exam (written test) + 0.16 * Seminar activity + 0.24 * Hometasks made disctantly (3 tasks) + 0.2 * Test preliminary

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• A world of populations : transnational perspectives on demography in the twentieth century, , 2017
• Alho, J., & Spencer, B. D. (2005). Statistical Demography and Forecasting. New York: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=163172
• Bridging the gaps : linking research to public debates and policy-making on migration and integration, , 2019
• Demography, Cox, P. R., 2008
• Demography. Vol.1: ., Caselli, G., 2006
• Handbook on migration and security, , 2017
• Household demography and household modeling, , 1995
• Karabchuk, T., Kumo, K., & Selezneva, E. (2017). Demography of Russia : From the Past to the Present. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1250103
• Methods and models in demography, Newell, C., 1988
• The demography of Europe, , 2013
• The demography of health and healthcare, Pol, L. G., 2013
• The new generations of Europeans : demography and families in the enlarged European Union, , 2006
• Why demography matters, Dorling, D., 2018

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Borjas George J. and Chiswick Barry R. Foundations of Migration Economics [Book] / ed. Elsner Benjamin. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Hans-Peter Kohler, Jere Behrman, & Susan Watkins. (2001). The density of social networks and fertility decisions: evidence from south nyanza district, kenya. Demography, (1), 43. https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2001.0005
• Noymer, A., & Hatori, H. (2016). Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edssch&AN=edssch.oai%3aescholarship.org%2fark%3a%2f13030%2fqt2v6135jr
• Ronald Lee. (1987). Population dynamics of humans and other animals. Demography, (4), 443. https://doi.org/10.2307/2061385
• Vishnevsky, A., & Shcherbakova, E. (2019). Demography: Pros and Cons of Raising the Retirement Age. Journal of the New Economic Association, (2), 148. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.nea.journl.y2019i42p148.167