POPULATION DYNAMICS AND INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the student must demonstrate:

• to apply and deal with proficiency, using appropriate English technical language, the basic methodological tools necessary to measure and analyze the main demographic characteristics of populations, mechanisms that explain demographic dynamics, and trends of international migrations;

• to understand the past, present and future causes and consequences of the main demographic issues and of international migrations.

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Knowledge and understanding

The course aims at providing to the students the basic knowledge and methodological tools necessary to analyze the main demographic characteristics of populations, mechanisms that explain demographic phenomena and patterns of international migrations. These tools, accompanied by hypotheses and interpretative schemes, will allow students to understand the main causes and consequences of the main past, present and future demographic and migratory issues.

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Applying knowledge and understanding

The study of the main demographic sources - at international, national and local level - and methods is aimed at preparing students to identify autonomously and to make critical analysis of the data necessary to analyze properly demographic and migratory issues. Through working-groups, the course allow the direct application of the studied methodological tools on specific demographic themes and selected macro-areas of the World.

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Further expected learning outcomes:

• Making judgements: The provided techniques will allow students to define properly the measures of demographic phenomena and to acquire independent judgment on demographic and migratory causes, dynamics and their possible consequences.

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• Communication skills: The student is stimulated to treat accurately the assumptions and formal developments of the studied methods and to acquire the appropriate English technical language of the discipline.

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• Learning skills: The direct interaction between teacher and student as well as the activities within working-groups stimulate and favor the learning abilities related to the tools and the contents of the discipline.