Master 2025/2026

Research Seminar "Population and Development"

Type: Compulsory course (Population and Development)

Delivered by: Department of Demography

When: 1 year, 1-4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Зинина Ангелина Игоревна, Ilya Ermolin, Kirill. V. Kuznetsov, Alexander Larionov, Natalia Mikhailova, Ekaterina Slobodenyuk

Language: English

Contact hours: 128

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.