Population and Society

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Explain the demographic processes of mortality, fertility, and migration, and analyse the socio-economic and behavioural factors that influence them
• Use and interpret key demographic measures including fertility rates, life expectancy, and dependency ratios

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use appropriate academic sources to support arguments and reference them accurately

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically assess demographic data sources and population projections, including the sources of uncertainty involved in projecting population change
• Analyse the social and economic consequences of changes in patterns of mortality, fertility, and migration

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.