Milestones GOG 102 2016
22-25 August
Course material: India's Demography, Demographic Futures.
Video: Sterilizing India
eBook: People and the Planet Chapter 2 (Sections 2.4 and 2.5).
15-19 August
Course material: Demographic Definitions, Demographic Transition, Age-Sex Pyramids, China's Demography.
Video: Population Pyramids, China - One Child Policy.
Weblink: 200 Years of Population Growth in Sweden – Animated Age-Sex Pyramid.
eBook: People and the Planet Chapter 2 (Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3).
8-12 August
Course material: Material Consumption.
Video: Story of Stuff.
Weblink: Ecological Footprint (WWF).
eBook: People and the Planet Chapter 3 Consumption.
1-5 August
Course material: Economic Growth and Long Wave Cycles; The Last (5th) Kondratieff Wave.
Video: Money as Debt
25-29 July
Course material: GDP and HDI Measures of Development; Gini Index; Antecedents to Modern Economic Growth.
Videos: UNDP's Human Development Report 2010; World Population Growth;
Class activity: Calculating GDP
eBook: Read Chapters 2, 4, 5 and 15 of Beyond Economic Growth
18-22 July
Read the three documents in 'Preliminaries'. Take the Oxford Practice Grammar online test linked from 'Improving your English' document.
Course material: Meaning and Measures of Development.
Class activity: Ignorance Survey
Video: Hans Rosling 2006: Stats that reshape your world-view
eBook: Read Beyond Economic Growth Chapter 1
IPPE 16 Milestones
Week 38
Course material: China's Demography; India's Demography; Demographic Futures.
Videos: China-One Child Policy; Sterilising India.
eBook: People and the Planet Chapter 2 (Sections 2.4 and 2.5).
Week 37
Course material: Economic Growth and Long Wave Cycles; The Last Kondratieff Wave; Material Consumption; Demographic Definitions; Demographic Transition.
Videos: The Story of Stuff; Population Pyramids.
eBook: People and the Planet Chapter 2 (Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3).
Weblinks: Understanding Exponential Growth; Ecological Footprint; Material World; Ecological Footprint; The Water We Eat; 200 Years of Population Growth in Sweden.
Week 36
Course material: GDP/HDI Measures of Development; Social Inequality - Gini Index; Measures of Development - Venn Diagrams; Antecedents to Modern Economic Growth
Videos (in-class): UNDP Human Development Report 2010; Nic Marks - Happy Planet Index; World Population; Money as Debt
Class activities: Calculate GDP; Venn Diagrams of six development measures
Videos (self-study): Inside Job (documentary about global financial crisis of 2008)
Weblink: Gapminder World
eBook: Read Beyond Economic Growth Chapters 2 and 15
Week 35 (starting Friday 2 September)
Read the three documents in 'Preliminaries'. Take the Oxford Practice Grammar online test linked from 'Improving your English' document.
Course material: Meaning and Measures of Development.
Class activity: Ignorance Survey
Video: Hans Rosling 2006: Stats that reshape your world-view
eBook: Read Beyond Economic Growth Chapter 1
Demography Links
- 200 Years of Population Growth in Sweden – Animated Age-Sex Pyramid
- American Migration: Interactive Map
- Asylum seekers in Europe
- Be a Demographer
- Gapminder World
- India's first 30 years of Family Planning
- Interactive World Migrations Map: Arrivals and Departures by country
- The World at Seven Billion – What's Your Number?
- World Population Growth Video
Development, Economy, Consumption Links
- Consumption – Rhodes University library guide
- Corruption Perception Index
- Ecological Footprint – World Wildlife Fund website
- Gapminder Ignorance Survey
- Gapminder World
- Happy Planet Index
- Human Development Index
- Material World – Peter Menzel Photography
- The water we eat (Angela Morelli's great visualisation)
- The world economy explained with just two cows
- Theories of development from the guardian.com
- Understanding Exponential Growth – Interactive Tutorial
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