Syllabus
Registration via LPIS
Day | Date | Time | Room |
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Monday | 04/22/13 | 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM | SR A619 (Lutz/Robins/Speckbacher) |
Thursday | 04/25/13 | 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM | SR A619 (Lutz/Robins/Speckbacher) |
Friday | 04/26/13 | 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM | SR A619 (Lutz/Robins/Speckbacher) |
Monday | 04/29/13 | 02:00 PM - 05:30 PM | SR A619 (Lutz/Robins/Speckbacher) |
Thursday | 05/02/13 | 02:00 PM - 05:30 PM | SR A619 (Lutz/Robins/Speckbacher) |
Friday | 05/03/13 | 02:00 PM - 05:30 PM | SR A619 (Lutz/Robins/Speckbacher) |
Wednesday | 05/08/13 | 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM | SR A619 (Lutz/Robins/Speckbacher) |
This course will introduce the students to the fundamental demographic concepts and their applications to the study of human capital formation. It will familiarize students with the basic demographic indicators, data and methods that are necessary to describe population dynamics by age, gender and level of education and produce population projections.
The course will also provide an overview over past and current trends in population and human capital (education and health) in all parts of the world with an emphasis on the process of demographic transition. It will also address the consequences of changes in population size and age structure as well as the changing human capital on a broad range of social and economics development indicators in different parts of the world. Finally, the student will get acquainted with the history of population related policies in developed and developing nations over the past decades and the new efforts to broaden such policies through the explicit consideration of human capital with respect to education and health.
After completion of this course, students will be able to
· collect and interpret basic demographic indicators from published statistics
· calculate life tables and different indicators of reproduction
· perform simple projections of population and human capital formation
· Interpret new developments in the international discussions about population, education and health policies
· perform comparative studies of demographic, education and health trends in different countries and on different continents and evaluate the results and their policy implications in the context of different analytical frameworks.
The course is based on a discussion of readings and lectures as well as hands-on calculations of demographic models and projections using existing software. Students will also have to search for their own data on the internet and download it for the calculations to be presented in the student presentations. Apart from regular active participation in class and in group discussions, students will have to deliver individual short papers (including literature reviews, discussion of data and results of own calculations) on assigned topics, provide brief presentations on these issues and do a final exam on the course contents.
Readings
Lectures
Class discussions
Discussions in subgroups
Reflections in individual essays
Student presentations
Exam
Active participation in group discussions (20%)
Individual search and comparative analysis of data (15%)
Individual calculations with interpretations in paper (25%)
Short presentations (20%)
Exam (20%)
Normally, successful completion of semester 1 of MSc SEEP.
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