SOC 319 • Intro to Social Demography
2:00 PM-3:30 PM
This course will provide a basic introduction to demography, which is the study of human population change and composition. The academic area of "Social Demography" attempts to understand the causes and consequences of the key components of population change--fertility, mortality, and migration--as well as of population composition, including patterns of age and sex structure, family, education, and race and ethnicity. In this course we will learn some basic tools for studying demography, as well as think critically about contemporary demographic issues.
Grades will be based on several assignments, exams, and classroom participation
Weeks, J.R., Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues, 10th Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning