| Course Unit Code | 116-0364/02 |
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| Number of ECTS Credits Allocated | 4 ECTS credits |
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| Type of Course Unit * | Choice-compulsory type B |
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| Level of Course Unit * | First Cycle |
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| Year of Study * | Third Year |
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| Semester when the Course Unit is delivered | Winter Semester |
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
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| Language of Instruction | Czech |
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| Prerequisites and Co-Requisites | Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) | Personal ID | Name |
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| S1O70 | RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D. |
| Summary |
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| The subject of demography is intended for all those interested in a more professional understanding of demographic processes. It provides knowledge about population reproduction to students studying at universities, not only in the university field, but also to organizations with a diverse application focus (e.g. branches of the Czech Statistical Office, workers at the level of municipal, city or district councils, etc.). Students will become familiar with demography as a scientific field, verify the possibilities of analytical procedures when working with various demo-social indicators, critically assess the role of external influences on population processes, and become familiar with the possibilities of population theory and politics in the whole social system. The specific results of analyzes of selected phenomena will serve to obtain a realistic idea of the degree of demographic development of the Czech Republic. Key chapters 3, 4 and 5 offer essential insights into basic demographic structures and processes, explain the state and development of the reproductive behavior of our population. Analyzes at the national level are supplemented to a lesser extent with international comparisons so that basic demographic knowledge about trends in our society finds an adequate response in comparative approaches to the surrounding world demographic environment. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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| The course grants students basic knowledges of population reproduction. The main components of this process are natural increase and migration. Demographic studies present knowledges about population development and changes of the primary population structures (age composition, national and religion structure etc.). Student learns to use demographic indicators, gets acquainted with demographic situation in Czech Republic and in the world. |
| Course Contents |
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1. Place of Demography in the Understanding.
2. Demographic Events and the Approaches to their Recognition.
3. Basic Instruments of the Demographic Analyses.
4. Analytical Processes at the Study of the Demographic Reproduction.
5. Wider Conditionalities of the Population Development.
6. Demography of the World Countries. |
| Recommended or Required Reading |
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| Required Reading: |
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1. CALDWELL, J. C., CALDWELL, B. K., CALDWELL, P., MCDONALD, P. F., SCHINDLMAYR, T. Demographic Transition Theory. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006.
2. Dudley L. Poston Jr., Leon F. Bouvier. Population and Society: An Introduction to Demography. 2nd editon, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2017.
3. Weeks, John, R. Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues. 12 ed., Boston: Wadsworth Publishing, 2015. |
1. Ouředníček M. a kol. Historický atlas obyvatelstva českých zemí. Praha: Karolinum, 2017.1.
2. Šotkovský, I. Socioekonomické struktury v rozvoji regionů. Postavení obyvatel Moravskoslezska v prostorové struktuře regionů soudržnosti ČR. SAEI, vol. 38, Ostrava: VŠB-TUO, 2015.
3. Šotkovský, I. Demografie: teorie a praxe v regionálních souvislostech, SOET, vol. 6. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2013.
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| Recommended Reading: |
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1. Lundquist, J. H., Anderton, D., L., Yaukey, D. Demography: The Study of Human Population. 4th ed., Long Grove: Waveland Press, 2015.
2. NEWBOLD, Bruce K. Population Geography: Tools and Issues. 2nd ed., Lanham, Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.
3. Šotkovský, I. Population Ageing and Social Security System in the European Union Countries and the Czech Republic. In Staníčková, M., L. Melecký, P. Doleželová and T. Powado-vá (eds.). Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on European Integration 2020. Ostrava: VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, pp. 880 – 887, 2020. |
1. Pavlík, Z., Rychtaříková, J., Šubrtová, A.: Základy demografie. Praha,
Academia, 1986, 736 s.
2. Roubíček, V.: Úvod do demografie. 1 vyd., Praha, Codex Bohemia 1997, 349 s.
3. Šotkovský, I. Populační vývoj obcí Moravskoslezského kraje po roce 1990. Praha: ČSÚ, Demografie, 64(1): 62-76, 2022. |
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