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2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

SO 215 - Demography and Public Health


An introduction to the field of social demography with emphases in the following areas: 1) mortality; 2) fertility; 3) migration; 4) population growth; 5) population composition of populations and sub-populations. The two central questions are: how do society, culture and the basic instituions influence population and the reverse. Summary phrase for the course: “demography is destiny.”

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