Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:
• Discuss the geographies of population change at a range of scales from global to local, and the factors contributing to these changes.
• Demonstrate a critical awareness of the structural factors constraining and facilitating the alteration of current population trajectories and the potential for population shock events to disrupt these.
• Critically analyse the limitations of the sources available for the study of population geography.
• Critically debate the potential future geographies of global population development from quantitative and qualitative perspectives and through the lens of sustainable development.
• Demonstrate the development of increased critical writing and analytical skills through synthesising readings, formal presentations and the compilation of a research essay.
Indicative Module Content:
Week 1 Introduction – problematising population in the 21st Century
Week 2 History of global population growth – changing spatial patterns & distributions
Week 3 Competing population projections
Week 4 Sources for the study of population
Week 5 Theorising population growth
Week 6 What does sustainable population growth look like?
Week 7 Reading Week
Week 8 Group Project Presentations
Week 9 Population Shocks - Disease & Conflict
Week 10 Migration
Week 11 Regulating population growth – government intervention
Week 12 Climate change and global population