Population and Development

Course Structure

1. [\'a multi-perspective approach, incorporating policy, evidence and theory\', \'options from a wide range of highly rated courses\', \'develops skills which have already secured past students promising professional careers\', \'taught through a combination of lectures and seminar discussions and assessed using a combination of coursework, written examinations and a dissertation\', "ESRC/PIC Master\'s Studentship Scheme in Population Studies worth \xc2\xa315,000 is available for this programme. Please refer to the PIC website for full information", \'EitherDevelopment: History, Theory and Policy integrates the concepts and perspectives of a range of disciplines to consider: major trends of development and change in modern history and interpretations of them in the social sciences; contemporary economic and social theory and their bearing on the policy and practice of development orKey Issues in Development Studies* provides an overview of the key issues and debates in international development and one other half-unit development course.\', \'Long Essay and the Research Process (not assessed) provides an understanding of issues associated with the research process in the context of MSc Social Policy essays.\', \'Dissertation on population and development.\', \'Population and Development: An Analytic Approach* examines different analytic approaches to the main interrelationships between population change and socio-economic development.\', \'Population Analysis: Methods and Models* is an introduction to the key concepts and methods of population analysis.\', \'Global Health and Population Change* aims at looking at the relationship of population change and global health, and follows a multidisciplinary approach by integrating demography, public health and epidemiology.\']