WEEKLY COURSE

OUTLINE
Date Content to be covered
• Natural population change
• The measurement of birth and deaths
Week 1
• Measurements of population (demographic) change
• Factors influencing population change in an MEDW e.g. UK

• Population change in the UK over time

Week 2
• The economic, political and social factors influencing the change

• The Demographic Transition Model

Week 3 • Comparisons with countries from the MEDW and LEDW.
• Evaluate the usefulness of the DTM.

• Population structure – study of the age-sex structure of the UK.

• How and why it has changed over time.
• Links between the Demographic Transition Model and age structure
Week 4
– do countries at different stages have different population
structures?
• Population pyramids.
• Study of aging population in the UK and a youthful population in an
LEDC.
Week 5
• Why do they happen?
• What are the implications?

• Definition and types of migration

• Theories of migration
Week 6
• The push-pull model
• Lee’s model

• The physical, economic, social, cultural and political causes of

migration.
Week 7
• The consequences of migration – the economic, environmental,
social and cultural impacts.
 • Refugee migration – how is it different to economic migration?
Week 8
• Causes and consequences

Week 9 • Test on Population