Development and International Cooperation Studies

Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to understand the relationships between population dynamics and economic development and of the differences in demographic behavior between advanced and developing countries; to this end they will have knowledge of policies adopted and statistical data, local, national and international related to population structure and movement; mortality and health; fertility and reproductive health; and migration. Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to use the theories and methods that explain the relationships between population dynamics and economic development and the differences in demographic behavior between advanced and developing countries. students will be able to use statistical methods and data at local, national and international level, for Making judgement: students will develop an autonomous judgment capability on a theoretical and practical perspective, on the population dynamics. Communication skills: students will develop an attitude for demographic reasoning and the capacity for argumentation on the population dynamics. Learning skills: students will be able to deal with other subjects of the statistic and demographic field thanks to the basic notions of population dynamics.