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Mar 12, 2025
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SOC 384 - Population (3 units)
The relationship of population to resources, the environment, and social structure. Analysis of population growth and change.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 .
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. demonstrate understanding of the trajectory of population history and analyze existing data sources.
2. distinguish, compare and contrast survival and sustainability challenges for pre-agricultural, agricultural, industrial, and post-industrial populations.
3. formulate and defend hypotheses about population growth over the next 20 year (including contrary currents in different regions).
4. identify and describe major population crises.
5. summarize and critique leading theories of one of these crises, both in terms of logic and in terms of evidence.
6. design and defend an original theory that builds on, improves and extends at least one of the existing theories.
7. demonstrate understanding of population migration and distribution, eport broad outlines of migration flows since 100,000. BCE, and analyze existing data sources.
8. recall more detailed features of US and especially Nevada population patterns and trends over the past 150 years.
9. explain, compare, contrast, and critique theories of these patterns and trends.
10. propose and defend at least one original hypothesis that builds on an existing theory but offers at least one correction or extension.
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