Course Highlights
GEOG435 Population Geography
(January 2-January 22)
Today, over 6 billion people inhabit the Earth, more than at any point in human history. Not long ago, in the 1960s, there were only 3 billion people living on our planet, and at the turn of the 19th century the world’s population was barely over one billion. Every day almost one quarter of a million people are added to the human society. Is the world overcrowded? Why are we growing so fast? Where are we distributed? Is the world’s population and its growth evenly distributed across the Earths surface? Where has the world’s population increased, and why is it increasing at different rates at different regions? These are just some of the thought provoking questions we will be discussing in the class. The population processes: birth, death, and migration shape and change the size and composition of population in different countries and regions of the world. They affect, and are affected by ascribed population characteristics - age, gender, race and ethnicity, and achieved population characteristics, such as religion, education, marital status, employment, or income.
What is the future of the world’s population? Come and share your thoughts in this challenging learning experience that affects us all!
Faculty
Dr. Mila Zlatic is a social geographer with more than 30 years of experience in population development. Educated in the US, at UC Berkeley, and abroad, in former Yugoslavia, Dr. Zlatic has worked on social issues in numerous countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Middle East. She has been a consultant for the World Bank, Council of Europe Development Bank, US AID, and the UN, the Urban Institute, PADCO and other consulting agencies. Besides, the University of Maryland she has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses at the New York University (NYU), George Mason University, and the University of the District of Columbia.
