118-0407/01 – Demography (DEMOGR)
Gurantor department | Department of Regional and Environmental Economics | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2015/2016 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
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
Compulsory literature:
NEWEL, C. (1994). Methods and Models in Demography. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Recommended literature:
CALDWELL, J. C., CALDWELL, B. K., CALDWELL, P., MCDONALD, P. F., SCHINDLMAYR, T. (2006). Demographic Transition Theory. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Předmět bude ukončen zápočtovým testem a odevzdáním seminární práce (analýzy v excelu).
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. The place of demography in the process of cognition.
2. Demographic matters and approaches to their determination.
3. Basic resources of demographic analyses.
4. Analytical procedures at studies of demographic reproduction.
5. Wider conditionalities of the population development.
6. Demography of the world countries.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction