The main objective of the minor is to enable students enrolled in a bachelor programme to acquire a basic training in population and development studies, enabling them to understand and, to a certain extent, analyze the great modern global challenges of poverty, demographic transitions, ageing populations, North-South inequalities, not to mention the interaction between population, environment and development.
The minor combines into a single block six courses (of 5 credits each) which the Department of population and development studies offers to all bachelors, courses which may have been taken individually or as part of certain option courses in the bachelor’s programme. By bringing them together, the minor provides an overview of the population-development issue and enables students to acquire basic knowledge in :
- demographic analysis and development theories
- population and development policies
- issues and challenges of the 21st century, both demographic as well as political, social and economic
- relationship between gender and social, economic and political inequalities
- analysis of the interaction between population, environment and development.
