116-0364/02 – Demography (DEMOG)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Marketing and BusinessCredits4
Subject guarantorRNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorRNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementChoice-compulsory type B
YearSemesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2021/2022Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesEKFIntended for study typesBachelor, Follow-up Master
Instruction secured by
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S1O70 RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit 2+1

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

The course grants students basic knowledges of population reproduction. The main components of this process are natural increase and migration. Demographic studies present knowledges about population development and changes of the primary population structures (age composition, national and religion structure etc.). Student learns to use demographic indicators, gets acquainted with demographic situation in Czech Republic and in the world.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Tutorials

Summary

The subject of demography is intended for all those interested in a more professional understanding of demographic processes. It provides knowledge about population reproduction to students studying at universities, not only in the university field, but also to organizations with a diverse application focus (e.g. branches of the Czech Statistical Office, workers at the level of municipal, city or district councils, etc.). Students will become familiar with demography as a scientific field, verify the possibilities of analytical procedures when working with various demo-social indicators, critically assess the role of external influences on population processes, and become familiar with the possibilities of population theory and politics in the whole social system. The specific results of analyzes of selected phenomena will serve to obtain a realistic idea of the degree of demographic development of the Czech Republic. Key chapters 3, 4 and 5 offer essential insights into basic demographic structures and processes, explain the state and development of the reproductive behavior of our population. Analyzes at the national level are supplemented to a lesser extent with international comparisons so that basic demographic knowledge about trends in our society finds an adequate response in comparative approaches to the surrounding world demographic environment.

Compulsory literature:

1. CALDWELL, J. C., CALDWELL, B. K., CALDWELL, P., MCDONALD, P. F., SCHINDLMAYR, T. Demographic Transition Theory. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006. 2. Dudley L. Poston Jr., Leon F. Bouvier. Population and Society: An Introduction to Demography. 2nd editon, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2017. 3. Weeks, John, R. Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues. 12 ed., Boston: Wadsworth Publishing, 2015.

Recommended literature:

1. Lundquist, J. H.,‎ Anderton, D., L., Yaukey, D. Demography: The Study of Human Population. 4th ed., Long Grove: Waveland Press, 2015. 2. NEWBOLD, Bruce K. Population Geography: Tools and Issues. 2nd ed., Lanham, Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. 3. Šotkovský, I. Population Ageing and Social Security System in the European Union Countries and the Czech Republic. In Staníčková, M., L. Melecký, P. Doleželová and T. Powado-vá (eds.). Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on European Integration 2020. Ostrava: VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, pp. 880 – 887, 2020.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Předmět je vyučován také pomocí interaktivního systému elektronického prostředí Moodle.

Other requirements

Active participation in seminars, preparation of materials, elaboration of seminar work in spreadsheet editor Excel by analysis of selected demographic process, active participation in lectures, credit test.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Place of Demography in the Understanding. 2. Demographic Events and the Approaches to their Recognition. 3. Basic Instruments of the Demographic Analyses. 4. Analytical Processes at the Study of the Demographic Reproduction. 5. Wider Conditionalities of the Population Development. 6. Demography of the World Countries.

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 2021/2022 Winter semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Credit Credit   3
Mandatory attendence participation: Participation in exercises is mandatory (exercises are only once every 2 weeks). In the event of serious reasons, it is the student's duty to excuse himself from the exercise in advance and at the same time agree with the course guarantor on how to compensate for the exercise.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: Participation in exercises is mandatory (exercises are only once every 2 weeks). It is the student's duty to apologize in advance for the exercise and at the same time agree with the course guarantor on how to compensate for the exercise. In justified cases, the student can process the assigned task independently.

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