GOG 344Y: World Population

Professor:  Youqin Huang

 

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This course satisfies the “Oral Discourse” category of the General Education requirements at UAlbany!

 

·         Supplementary Readings:

 

                Commoner: Poverty Breeds "Overpopulation"

                Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: A Malthusian View

                Hardin: The Tragedy of the Commons

                Ritchie_Calder: UNICEF's Response to Population Growth: Family Planning

                Harvey: A Marxian Analysis of the Population-Resource Problem

                Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America

                  Managing Migration: The Global Challenge

 

  • Debates:

 

 

 

 

·          Peer Evaluation Form for Presentation

 

UAlbany is competing with 160 other schools to see who can recycle the most. 

UAlbany dorms are competing with each other!

 

 

 

§  Malnourished boy

§  Kindergarden run by government

§  Orphans

§  Rice fields damaged by flood

§  Waiting outside of  public distribution center

§  UN World Food Program - Work for Food  

                               
                            Should we provide unconditional food aid to North Korea?

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Lecture Notes:

1.      Introduction

2.      World population patterns

3.      Demographic perspectives

4.      Demographic Data

5.      Mortality

6.      Fertility

7.      Migration

8.      Age Transition

9.      Household transition

10.  Urban transition

11.  Population and contemporary issues

12.  Population policies