James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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GE5300:04

Contemporary Population Issues

Townsville

Prerequisites: TG2500 (GE2300) or equivalent population studies. Concise or basic knowledge of population concepts
Inadmissable Subject Combination: GE3300 TG3500 TG5500

26 lectures, 36 hours practicals. Second semester.

Staff: Dr S Bandaranaike.

The subject will examine the implications of global population growth and the environmental implications of such growth; issues involved in population planning and charge and in growth control measures: changing age/gender structures and their socio-economic implications: international population movements (migrants, workers, refugees) and their growth.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to educate students in the implications of global population growth, population planning and change and the significance of international population movements.

Assessment by essay (25%); workshops (75%).


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