Students will conduct intensive studies of population structure and growth, the impact of demographic and planning policies in different countries, methods of measurement and the global directions of population change, in general and in the Arab world and Palestinian change in particular. Students will encounter concepts such as ideal population capacity (population threshold), explore the relationship between population and natural resources and apply measurements at different scales in the Arab world and Palestine. Students will also study future projections of population growth in Palestine, the Arab world and the rest of the world using computerized demographic models. This course will include a project focusing on the population of one geographic location in Palestine, applying statistical methods to examine its population policy.
