Overview
Description
Examines the influences of demography (births, deaths, and mobility) on socioeconomic and political structures. Several topics covered affecting national and international populations such as race/ethnicity, births, deaths, gender, family, socioeconomic opportunities, poverty, aging, immigration, migration, urbanization, and environment. Links between these trends, policy, and well-being are established.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- utilize demographic measures and concepts to examine and interpret data about an identified population using appropriate quality data sources.
- develop and design appropriate steps and tasks to conduct a demographic research project based on an identified population.
- write and present the results of a demographic study.
- describe and discuss patterns related to population, fertility, migration, social inequality, health, and mortality within the United States and international populations.
- conceptualize and conduct a research study using demographic methods and quality data sources on a course related topic.