Universität Wien

234006 VO Policy Research: Public Health, Fertility and Migration (2022S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
REMOTE
Moodle

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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Please note that there will be offered a 2. exam in summer semester 2022:
30.05.2022 at 11 am in Moodle

Two more exams will be offered in winter semester 2022/23 and then in summer semester there will be the another possibility to sit the exam in the corresponding course.

  • Monday 07.03. 10:00 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 11.03. 10:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 14.03. 10:00 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 18.03. 09:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 21.03. 10:00 - 13:00 Digital
  • Friday 25.03. 10:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 28.03. 10:00 - 13:00 Digital
  • Monday 04.04. 10:00 - 11:30 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This lecture covers the policy dimension of demographic trends at the national and international level. It will start with the history of population related policies in the fields of mortality/health, fertility and international migration. A specific focus will be on international conventions and the sequence of international population conferences during the second half of the 20th century. In particular, we will discuss the fundamental paradigm shift from population control to reproductive health that took place around the 1994 Cairo World Population Conference.
The lecture will also cover the evolution of European migration policies and summarize the current state of dealing with policy challenges in the context of depopulation and population ageing in Europe.
The course will be given in the form of a lecture that will be recorded with the video as well as the Power Point slides used available on Moodle.

Assessment and permitted materials

The assessment will be in the form of a final exam in which students will be asked to write short essays on topics covered in the lecture. It will be an open book exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

In the exam students must show their knowledge of the topics covered as well as their independent critical analysis of them. There will be a strict check for plagiarism.
a) Maximum number of points that can be achieved: 100
b) Minimum requirement for a positive result: 50 points
c) Scale of marks:
91 - 100.....points Grade 1
78 - 90.......points Grade 2
64 - 77.......points Grade 3
50 - 63.......points Grade 4
Under 50 points Grade 5

Examination topics

The topics covered in the lecture (see above) will also be the examination topics

Reading list

Wolfgang Lutz, 2021, Advanced Introduction to Demography. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Jyoti Shankar Singh, 2009, Creating a New Consensus on Population: The Politics of Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights and Women’s Empowerment. (Chapters 1-4). Earthscan.
Gauthier, Anne H. 2007. The Impact of Family Policies on Fertility in Industrialized Countries: A Review of the Literature. Population Research and Policy Review 26 (3): 323346. https://doi.org/10.1007/
s11113-007-9033-x
Wolfgang Lutz and Nicholas Gailey, 2020, Depopulation as a Policy Challenge in the Context of Global Demographic Trends. UNDP Human Development Series. https://eeca.unfpa.org/en/node/53482

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