SOC 2202

Population and Social Change

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Introduction to population studies. The primary focus is on the relationships between demographic processes (fertility, mortality, and immigration) and social and economic issues. Discussion covers special topics related to population growth and spatial distribution, including marriage and family formation, population aging, changing roles and statuses of women, labor force participation, immigrations, urban growth and urbanization, resource allocation, and the environment.

Forbidden Overlaps Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: GDEV 2010, PUBPOL 2030, SOC 2030, SOC 2202.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY, EC-SAP)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024FA, 2023FA, 2023SP

Outcomes

• Understand and examine the determinants and consequences of demographic change, and components therein in the US and internationally.
• Examine the mutual interrelationships between population and society.
• Understand alternative policy approaches associated with challenges and opportunities presented by changing population size and composition.
• Utilize basic methodological approaches to population analysis.

Distribution Category (SSC-AS) (CA-AG, SBA-AG)

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Comments CALS students must enroll in GDEV 2010.

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