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Course: 2025/2026

Demography
(16637)
Bachelor in International Studies (Plan: 504 - Estudio: 305)


Coordinating teacher: JUIF , DACIL TANIA

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Basic mathematics
Objectives
LEARNING OUTCOMES - Understand, compare and apply basic demographic concepts (natural fertility, parity-specific, IDP, marriage squeeze, etc.) - Know how demographic data are collected (in censuses, civil registrations, and data repositories) and be able to retrieve and use them - Acquire the necessary tools for demographic analysis (calculate indices like the TFR, life expectancy, CDR, migration turnover, migration ratio) - Trace population dynamics from a historical and global comparative perspective; identify current trends and future scenarios - Learn about the principal determinants of demographic change and the related theories - Reflect upon the socioeconomic and environmental consequences of demographic change, including population growth, fertility decline, rise in longevity, ageing and urbanization - Acquire a general view about population policies from a global comparative perspective
Learning Outcomes
K1: Acquire the knowledge, techniques and terminology specific to the field of economics, politics and international relations. K3: To know basic humanistic contents, oral and written expression, following ethical principles and completing a multidisciplinary training profile. K4: Acquire knowledge of the economic, legal, political and social reality from a comparative perspective. K7: To know and understand the main models of political, economic and social organization of States and the processes of change in contemporary societies and politics. K8: To understand the differentiating elements of international problems according to the degree of development of a country. S3: Plan and organize team work making the right decisions based on available information and gathering data in digital environments. S4: Use information interpreting relevant data avoiding plagiarism, and in accordance with the academic and professional conventions of the area of study, being able to assess the reliability and quality of such information. S5: Apply knowledge to identify with rigor, precision and scientific objectivity the social processes and possible solutions. S7: Be able to identify, access and manage sources of information relevant to comparative analysis in the field of politics, economics and international relations. S10: Ability to gather and interpret relevant data and knowledge for the elaboration and defense of arguments on topics in their area of study. C3: Ability to establish good interpersonal communication and to work in multidisciplinary and international teams. C4: Be able to engage in lifelong autonomous learning, enabling them to adapt to new situations.
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction to demography 2. Demographic theories: Malthus and the demographic transition 3. Demographic methods and data 4. Health and mortality transition 5. The fertility transition 6. Migration transition 7. The age transition: challenges of ageing 8. The urban transition 9. Family and household transition 10. Population growth and sustainability 11. Demographic History 11. Demographic History
Learning activities and methodology
Lectures Practical Classes: -Oral presentation in class -Exercises to be carried out in groups or individually -Discussions Individual office hours
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 25
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 75

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Weeks, John R. . Population. An introduction to concepts and issues. Cengage Learning. 2015
Additional Bibliography
  • Bongaarts, J. and Casterline, J.. Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different? . Population and Development Review 38(1): 153¿168.
  • Bongaarts, J. and Casterline, J.. Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different? . Population and Development Review 38(1): 153¿168.
  • Borjas, G. J.. Immigration and globalization: A review essay.. Journal of Economic Literature, 53(4), 961-74. . 2015
  • Christensen, K., Doblhammer, G., Rau, R., & Vaupel, J. W. . Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. The lancet, 374(9696), 1196-1208. 2009
  • Lesthaeghe, R.. The unfolding story of the second demographic transition. . Population and development review, 36(2), 211-251. . 2010
  • Malthus, T. R.. Essay on the principle of population. London: ¿J. Johnson. 1798
  • Reher, D. S. . Economic and social implications of the demographic transition.. Population and development review, 37(s1), 11-33. 2011
  • Wachter, Kenneth W.. Essential demographic methods. Harvard University Press. 2014
  • Zarulli, V., Jones, J. A. B., Oksuzyan, A., Lindahl-Jacobsen, R., Christensen, K., & Vaupel, J. W. . Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(4), E832-E840. 2018

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.