This course offers a broad panorama of the major socio-demographic challenges that the various regions of the world face in the 21st century. Its goal is to introduce students to the main concepts of demographic analysis, current demographic trends and key demographic issues. The course is designed to make students acquainted with the basic demographic terms, methods and to cover fundamental measures of mortality, fertility, family formation and migration. The questions addressed cover both socio-demographic and health trends, as well as their economic, social, political and environmental causes and consequences. Moreover, this course offers social perspectives on population development from a comparative and international perspective.
The course format consists of lectures and seminars.
- Enseignant: Leona Stašová