ASOA15106U Society, Population, and the theories of social demography
BSc/MSc Elective course
Course package:
Welfare, inequality and mobility
Knowledge, organisation and politics
Culture, lifestyle and everyday life
This course introduces population issues, concepts, theories and typical methods by encompassing the fields of demography, sociology, and economics. It provides an overview of various aspects of demographic dynamics in fertility, migration, aging, education, family and household structure, health and mortality. This course also examines the relationship between population and development, and their potential consequences from sociological, economic and geographical perspectives.
Within the course we will also demonstrate thematic examples and tasks, including:
creating population pyramid. –It is the most intuitive way to show the age and gender composition of the population in a society;
demographic analysis of economic growth. –It can reveal how the population age structure plays a role in the economic development of a society and quantify the so-called population dividend;
descriptive maps of population. –It will show the distribution of the population via maps and demonstrate the spatial heterogeneity of population dynamics;
visualization of migration. –It shows how the population flow looks like and how migration shapes the age composition of the local population;
creating life tables. – It demonstrates how life expectancy is calculated from mortality;
calculation of fertility indicators. –It will help students know the exact meaning of fertility indicators, and the advantage and disadvantage of these indicators
KNOWLEDGE:
Students are equipped fundamental knowledge and theories about population processes and their relationship with development.
SKILLS:
Students are able to perform basic demographic analysis to understand some social and demographic issues.
COMPTETENCES:
Students are aware of the importance of demographic perspective in understanding social phenomena.
Up to 700 pages of literature.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 56
- Preparation
- 130
- Exam Preparation
- 20
- Total
- 206
Student and teacher feedback will be built into the exercises. This will both take paces as peer feedback in smaller groups as well as presentations for class where the professor will give direct feedback
Registration deadline for courses is:
June 1st for Autumn semester
December 1st for Spring semester.
When registered you will be signed up for exam.
Sociology- and anthropology Student:
Registration online at KUnet
International exchange students:
You must sign up by filling in an application form. Find it at
www.sociology.ku.dk.
Credit students:
Find more information at
www.soc.ku.dk under Uddannelse
-> Meritstuderende.
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, -Individual or group (max. 4 students). If the synopsis is written by more than one student, the oral exam will generally be a group exam. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet.
- Exam registration requirements
You need to be signed up for the course to attend the exam
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
Find more information on your study page at KUnet.
Exchange students and Danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology;
www.sociology.ku.dk under Education --> Exams- Re-exam
Oral examination based upon synopsis with formulated questions.
Individual or group
An elective subject is usually offered regularly, but we cannot guarantee it will be offered more than once. Please be aware that the exam for this course is only offered 3 exam terms after the course has ended.
Criteria for exam assesment
Please see the learning outcome
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASOA15106U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- BachelorBachelor choice,Full Degree Master,Full Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- See Timetable
- Course capacity
- Vejl. 40 personer
- Study board
- Department of Sociology, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Sociology
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences
Course Coordinators
- Mengni Chen (4-7d75737850837f733e7b853e747b)
Lecturers
Mengni Chen