Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Eggerickx Thierry; Gourbin Catherine;
Language
French
Main themes
The topics vary from one year to the other:
- Demography of small populations : aims and methodological problems ;
- Measuring heterogeneity, concentration and social segregation of space ;
- Demography as aid to public administration : interactions between social, housing, spatial planning policies ;
- Demography of business corporations ;
- Population forecasts for regions, towns and municipalities ;
- Community and residential housing ;
- Foreign population, immigrants-foreign origin population, refugees ;
- School population ;
- The population of Louvain-la-Neuve : establishing the census of a night population.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1. | apply demographic methods and tools to daily problems of public management, enterprise management or to the study of consumption practices. |
| 2. | answer questions such as: How can a demographer answer questions asked by local deciders, in spatial or regional planning, etc
What does demography bring to the forecasts and necessary adjustments in community equipment (day-care centers, schools, old people's homes
) and of their spatial location? |
| 3. | identify technical and methodological problems (availability of data, small numbers ) from the fact that applied demography usually focusing on specific "sub-populations" or small area populations. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Other information
SPED 1211 and DEMO 2150
Individual or group work.
Course text and a portfolio of readings
Faculty or entity
PSAD
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Population and Development Studies
