GOG 344Y: World Population

Spring, 2008

Professor: Youqin Huang

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

• Syllabus

• 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 Reshanping America

Managing Migration: The Global Challenge

· Peer Evaluation Form for Presentation

• RecycleMania

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

• UAlbany Energy Conservation

UAlbany dorms are competing with each other!

• Super Bowl XLI and demography
• Other Facts for Features by US Census Bureau

• Questions by chapter for building a demographic profile

• Summary of Demographic Perspectives
• 2006 World Data Sheet
• National Population Cartoon Contest Winners
• United Nations International Migration Report 2002

• Study Guide for Midterm
• Study Guide for Final

• Debates:

• Debate 1 (Is population growth, or poverty, the main problem?)

• Debate 2 (Should the U.S. have a more restrictive or lenient immigration policy?)

• U.S. Immigration Policy (slides and notes; download the file and read in Powerpoint to see notes)
• President Bush Proposes Temporary Worker Program (slides and notes)

• Debate 3 (Is population growth an underlying cause of environmental degradation?) 

• Misc.

• Land reform in Scotland (NY Times) 
• How much do you know about world poverty and development? Take a quiz on poverty and development
• Food Crisis in North Korea

§ 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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