Demography of Lusophone Countries
Code
711041056
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Geografia e Planeamento Regional
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Getting familiar with the main concepts used in demography;
b) Recognizing the elements of population growth;
c) Understanding both the main causes as the socio-economic and spatial effects of changes in demographic structures;
d) Realizing the significance of the relations between population, development and environment;
e) Highlighting the objectives and the effects of population policies or of their absence;
f) Identifying identical and specific features of the Portuguese speaking countries populations structures and dynamics;
g) Building on solutions to problems associated to the triangle population / development / environment;
h) Developing demographic analysis and diagnoses at different scales.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
(1) Significance and objectives of Demography; (2) Key concepts in demographic studies; (3) Natural and migratory trends on population growth; (4) The demographic situation in Portuguese speaking countries; (4.1) Spatial distribution of the population - regional inequalities, urban and rural population; (4.2) Population structures - shares by age and sex; (4.3) Relation between population, environment and development; (4.4) Explicit and implicit population policies.
Bibliography
Aryeetey-Atthoh, Samuel (2003) - Population Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, in Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, Nova Iorque, Prentice Hall, 2003, pp. 120-146.
Bandeira, Mário Leston (1996) Demografia e Modernidade: Família e Transição Demográfica. Lisboa, INCM;
Livi Bacci, Massimo, 500 Anos de Demografia Brasileira: uma Resenha, Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, vol. 19, nº 1, 2002, pp. 141-159.
http://www.abep.nepo.unicamp.br/docs/rev_inf/vol19_n1_2002/vol19_n1_2002_8pontodevista_141_159.pdf
Nazareth, Joaquim M. (2004) Demografia: a ciência da população. Queluz, Presença.
Sanchez Barricarte, Jesus Javier (2008) El crecimineto de la población mundial. Implicaciones socioeconómicas, ecológicas y éticas. Valência, Tirant lo Blanche.
Weeks, John R. (2008) Population: an introduction to concepts and issues. Belmont, Wadsworth.
Teaching method
Lectures and participatory classes. Practical classes are aimed to: i) monitor and control the development of a group work, developed on several stages: i) debate, with the teacher intervention, on several themes of the discipline, with the support of texts or other resources.
Evaluation method
Each student is required to:
- Read selected bibliography, whose contents will be the support of written tests:
a. Full test (35%);
b. 5 short tests (approximately 30 minutes), being counted the 4 of those with better classifications (35%)
NOTE: Students who require it - for example, for not having performed four tests - can concentrate on Full test the 70% determined by these elements of assessment
- Develop a written essay (group work - 20%) and its oral presentation (3 moments of individual action - 5%);
- Statutory class attendance and appropriate class participation (5%)