Migration, Population Distribution, and Urbanism

Catalog description

Pre -requisites: DEMO 6500, DEMO 6546. The trend and characteristics of migratory movements of population distribution and of urbanism are analyzed in this graduate course within a framework of social change and economic development through lectures, class discussion, and exercises. Development of several explanatory theories of these three processes are also analyzed, as well as the data sources and methods used in their analysis. The main internal and external migrations, the population distribution patterns and the structure of the urban communities in different types of societies are studied. It is expected that at the end of the course the student had developed analysis skills for the study of these three components as well for the evaluation of the components’ trends and causes.