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| SEC 317 | Demography | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of ECONOMICS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The aim of this course is to give the student the basic theoretical knowledge about demographical theories and population in Turkey and world. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | define basic concepts of demography.
| 1 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | clarify principles about population. | 1 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | provide and associate knowledge to be learned by giving schoolwork. | 1,3,5 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | show by associating how demographic concepts, methods and theories appropriate with today and our country. | 4,5 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | explain and associate theories and methods again according to results .
| 5 | 1 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Definition of demography, theories and methods in demography, data collection in demography, population policies, population development in Turkey and world, immigration and emigration; urbanization; characteristics of Turkish population. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Definition of Demography and hepler science branches to Science of Demographi
| | | Week 2 | Approaches to population growth in past communities: Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Middle Age Europe, India, Eagypt, Persia, Jewish and Muslim Communities
| | | Week 3 | Approaches of Fizyokrats? to Population
| | | Week 4 | Approaches of Classical Economists? to Population
| | | Week 5 | Main Theories of Demography: Micro and Macro theories
| | | Week 6 | Optimum Population Theory
| | | Week 7 | Malthus? Population Theory and Malhusien Approaches
| | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Structure and components of the polulation
| | | Week 10 | Death ? Birth Rate and Population Growth
| | | Week 11 | The Environmental conditions encourages high fertility
| | | Week 12 | Population structure and components in Turkey
| | | Week 13 | Fertility, life expectency and population growth in Turkey
| | | Week 14 | Arithmetic, Fyzical and Agricultural polulation density in Turkey and throughouth World
| | | Week 15 | Dependent Population and its? relation with economical development in Turkey and throughout World
| | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Bağırkan, Ş. 2003; Demografinin Temelleri Türkiye'nin Demografik Yapısı Uluslararası Demografi, Set Yayınları, İstanbul | | | 2 | Başol, K. 1982; Demografi Genel ve Türkiye, Dokuz Eylül Üniv. Yay. İzmir | | | |
| 1 | Gündüz, M., Kutlar, A., Gündüz, F., Esgin, A., 2005; Nüfus Sorunu, Anı Yayıncılık, Ankara | | | 2 | Bacci, M. L., 2009; Avrupa'da Nüfus Hareketleri, Literatür Yayıncılık, İstanbul | | | 3 | Cipolla, C., 1992; Dünya Nüfusunun İktisat Tarihi, Ötüken Yayınları, İstanbul | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 10/11/2009 | 0,5 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | 14/12/2009 | 0,5 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 04/01/2010 | 0,5 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 7 | 2 | 14 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 7 | 2 | 14 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 101 |
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