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SOC 303 - Demography (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: SOC 101 
 
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to address questions concerning population growth and change. It explores critical issues such as the relationship between population growth and development; immigration and internal migration; how demographic processes and opportunities vary by age, race, ethnicity, and gender; and how and why these processes vary around the world. Additionally, students will learn to compute a variety of demographic measures using publically available data and Excel.