Master
2023/2024
Research Seminar "Population and Development"
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Population and Development)
Area of studies:
Public Administration
Delivered by:
Department of Demography
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Зинина Ангелина Игоревна,
Oxana Bondarenko,
Ilya Ermolin,
Kirill. V. Kuznetsov,
Alexander Larionov,
Natalia Mikhailova,
Yassir Ali Osman Mohammed,
Ekaterina Nastina,
Daria Salnikova,
Ekaterina Slobodenyuk
Master’s programme:
Population and Development
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
12
Contact hours:
124
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course introduces the students with the basic concepts of economic and human development, problems of inequality and basic demographic challenges. It combines some theoretical models with broad empirical evidence. Within the discipline students can realize the interconnections between social and economic development and demographic behavior The discipline is an obligatory three modules course for first-year students of the Master Program with specialization at ‘Population and Development’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The discipline is taught in English. The prerequisites are the basics knowledge of geography, economics, history, social sciences and statistics.
Learning Objectives
- The aim of the course is to explain students the demographic and social economic aspects of the human development. Within this course the connections between demographic, social economic and political processes are observed as well as their influence on social and human development and possible causal mechanisms. In the first part, we will take a look at the contemporary differences in various development outcomes across nations. Once we realize that these differences were (and indeed had to be) in the making since at least a couple of centuries, and possibly way more, it becomes imperative to turn our attention to possible answers to the two fundamental questions: (1) Why are contemporary societies so much richer than their distant ancestors? (2) Why are some nations so much wealthier than others today? In the second part of the course, we will briefly discuss the history of global economic growth and the history of divergence between rich and poor nations, with particular emphasis on the Industrial Revolution and various hypotheses on its causes. Next, we will consider individual factors of economic development, like geography, human capital and institutions, and analyze how they contribute to economic development and to the observed between-country economic inequality, using both historical and contemporary material. Finally, we will examine topics especially salient for the developing countries, like coping with advantages and challenges of ethnolinguistic and religious diversity; the resource curse issues; the debate on long-run benefits of international development aid.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Additional useful for the academic paper writing skills
- The student can find the most suitable methods of research, data sources, develops hypotheses and the ways to test it
- The student can organize the predefence of the paper as a public presentation
- The student is able to summarizes and groups knowledge from the research literature
- The student is able to write texts of different genres
- The student know the basic elements and stages of academic research
Course Contents
- Introduction of acedemic research
- Research proposal
- Literature review
- Academic paper writting skills ractical guide
- Predefences
- Academic writting
- Introduction to anthropology
- Economy of happiness
- Public administration
Assessment Elements
- Literature review
- Methodology for studying migration
- Methodology of the study of fertility
- Methodology of studying innovations
- Practical aspects of the application of R
- Sociological methods of analysis
- Semi-structured interview and other qualitative methods
- Discussion of the Proposal
- Introduction to Anthropology
- The Economics of Happiness
- Public administration
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 4th module0.1 * Discussion of the Proposal + 0.1 * Discussion of the Proposal + 0.3 * Literature review + 0.3 * Literature review + 0.1 * Methodology for studying migration + 0.1 * Methodology for studying migration + 0.1 * Methodology of studying innovations + 0.1 * Methodology of studying innovations + 0.1 * Methodology of the study of fertility + 0.1 * Methodology of the study of fertility + 0.1 * Practical aspects of the application of R + 0.1 * Practical aspects of the application of R + 0.1 * Semi-structured interview and other qualitative methods + 0.1 * Semi-structured interview and other qualitative methods + 0.1 * Sociological methods of analysis + 0.1 * Sociological methods of analysis
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.3 * Introduction to Anthropology + 0.3 * Introduction to Anthropology + 0.3 * Public administration + 0.3 * Public administration + 0.4 * The Economics of Happiness + 0.4 * The Economics of Happiness
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- 6, P., & Bellamy, C. (2012). Principles of Methodology : Research Design in Social Science. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=595703
- Bischoping, K. (2005). Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches/The Practice of Social Research. Teaching Sociology, 33(1), 95–97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X0503300110
- Contemporary academic writing. A comprehensive course for students in higher education : Course book, Sowton, C., 2016
- Presentation skills for students, Emden van, J., 2004
- Research methods : the basics, Walliman, N., 2018
- Research proposals : a practical guide, Denscombe, M., 2012
- Silvis, C. A. (2015). Presentation Skills : One Hour Workshop. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning PTR. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=910374
- Strengths and Limitations of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods. (2017). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.887088
- Telling a research story : writing a literature review, Feak, C. B., 2009
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Developing a winning grant proposal, Orlich, D. C., 2013
- Haber, R. J., & Lingard, L. A. (2001). Learning Oral Presentation Skills: A Rhetorical Analysis with Pedagogical and Professional Implications. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E3B18106
- Heck, R. H. (2004). Studying Educational and Social Policy : Theoretical Concepts and Research Methods. Mahwah, N.J.: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=113815
- Ligia MUNTEAN JEMNA. (2016). Qualitative And Mixed Research Methods In Economics: The Added Value When Using Qualitative Research Methods. Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law, (9), 154. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.aic.jopafl.y2016v9p154.167
- Sandoval, I. S. (2016). Understanding Political Science Research Methods: The Challenge of Inference. Political Studies Review, 14(3), 451. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929916655062
- Successful presentation skills, Bradbury, A., 2006
- The literature review : a step-by-step guide for students, Ridley, D., 2012
- Theobald, T. (2019). Develop Your Presentation Skills : How to Inspire and Inform with Clarity and Confidence (Vol. Fourth edition). London: Kogan Page. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2175100