SOCI 443

Population Problems and Policies

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

A review of contemporary population trends, their effects on human well-being, and social policy responses. Topics include: population growth, sustainable development, and the environment; population aging; marriage, cohabitation and divorce; new reproductive technology; population and gender; immigration; urbanization and human crowding.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 443, 340, 342.

Formerly: 342; 340

Undergraduate course in Sociology offered by the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences.