[Open Yale course：Global Problems of.Population Growth]
耶魯大學開放課程：全球人口增長問題
About the course
This survery course introduces students to the important basic material on human fertility,population growth,the demographic transition and population policy.Topics include:the human and environmental dimensions of population pressure,demographic history,economic and cultural causes of demographic change,environmental carrying capacity and sustainability.Political,religious and ethical issues surrounding fertility are also assressed.The lectures and readings attempt to balance theoretical and demographic scale analysis with studies of individual humans and communities.The perspective is globaa with both developed and developing countries included.
本次調(diào)查過程中向?qū)W生介紹有關(guān)人類生育的重要基本材料,人口增長,人口轉(zhuǎn)變和人口政策.主題包括：人口壓力,人口歷史的人類和環(huán)境方面的問題;人口變化,環(huán)境的承載能力和經(jīng)濟和文化的可持續(xù)發(fā)展.政治,宗教和道德問題圍繞：生育殺嬰,墮胎,避孕,重男輕女,政府強制,移民和婦女地位.這些講座和閱讀試圖分析人類個體和整個社會形成的人口規(guī)模與理論上的平衡.該觀點涵蓋了全球發(fā)達國家和發(fā)展中國家.爭論的原因是醫(yī)療和人口迅速增長的影響等問題.
Class Sessions
1.Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies
2.Sex and Violence Among the Apes
3.From Ape to Human
4.When Humans Were Scarce
5.Why Is Africa Different?
6.Malthusian Times
7.Demographic Transition in Europe; Mortality Decline
8.Demographic Transition in Europe; Fertility Decline
9.Demographic Transition in Europe
10.Quantitative Aspects
11.Low Fertility in Developed Countries (Guest Lecture by Michael Teitelbaum)
12.Human and Environmental Impacts
13.Fertility Attitudes and Practices
14.Demographic Transition in Developing Countries
15.Female Disadvantage
16.Population in Traditional China
17.Population in Modern China
18.Economic Impact of Population Growth
19.Economic Motivations for Fertility
20.Teen Sexuality and Teen Pregnancy
21.Global Demography of Abortion
22.Media and the Fertility Transition in Developing Countries (Guest Lecture by William Ryerson)
23.Biology and History of Abortion
24.Population and the Environment
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