GOG 344Y: World Population

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 Reshaping America

Managing Migration: The Global Challenge

• 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?) 

• Study Guide for Midterm
• Study Guide for Final

· 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

• 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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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