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This course is designed to equip students from all faculties with a basic understanding of the ways in which population variables interact with economic, political, social, cultural, physical and environmental factors to create a changing balance. The course introduces students to the basic measures which are used by demographers to describe the structure of populations, as well as the changes induced by births, deaths and migration. There is no pre-requisite for this course, but through active participation in the course, students will gain experience in the calculation and interpretation of basic rates and ratios, as well as an understanding of the relationships between patterns of development and population changes and distribution.
- Lecturer: Julian Devonish
- Lecturer: Samantha John-Aloye
- Lecturer: Michael Yee-Shui
This course examines the diverse societies of the Caribbean in global context, exploring contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic processes shaping the region. A central theme that runs throughout the course is the idea of continuity and change - how social structures and institutions are influenced by historical as well as contemporary factors. Students will also receive a firm grounding in Caribbean social structure and socio-cultural relations, exploring key debates surrounding issues such as the afterlives of plantation societies, social stratification, rural and urban social change, coping with debt and disasters, migration, popular culture, and social movements. Actual topics covered may vary from year to year. An effort will be made to connect these themes to current events occurring across the region.
- Lecturer: Doreen Gordon
This course builds on the theoretical understandings of development that students developed in SY27J – The Sociology of Development. It surveys a number of important issues involved in the process of globalization and the ways in which they impact on the process of development. After completing this course, students will be able to:
- describe the main features of the development project and the globalization project, and explain how the former evolved into the latter.
- analyze how these general trends in the world economy affect particular social issues such as employment, poverty, food security, and environmental degradation.
- explain why the process of globalization inevitably produces counter-movements against it, and describe the most important of these movements
- evaluate contemporary issues and policy questions relating to development and globalization, based on an in-depth understanding of the process of globalization, as specified above.
- Lecturer: John Talbot