Demography is the study of human population size, socioeconomic characteristics, structure, spatial distribution and development, and analysis of how these features are trending. Focus is given to the three main components of population change - fertility, mortality and migration, and other features such as geographical or political structures, which contribute to population change.
1. SOCI1001: Introduction to Social Research
2. SOCI1002: Introduction to Sociology I
3. SOCI1005: Introductory Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences or ECON1005: Introduction to Statistics
4. FOUN1013: Critical Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences or FOUN1019: Critical Reading and Writing in the Disciplines (Year long – 6 credits)
5. FOUN1101: Caribbean Civilization
6. FOUN1201: Science, Medicine and Technology in Society
7-10. Plus 4 Level I Free Electives
11. SOCI2000: Classical Social Theory
12. SOCI2004: Introduction to Population
13. SOCI2005: Reproductive Health and Family Life Education
14. SOCI2007: Survey Design and Analysis
15. SOCI2008: Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences
16. SOCI2009: Statistical Computing for Social Research
17. SOCI3018: Demography I: Population, Trends and Policies
18. SOCI3021: Demography II: Demographic Techniques
19. SOCI3022: Population, Environment and Development
20. SOCI3015: Introduction to the Evaluation of Social Programmes or SOCI3041: Introduction to Social Marketing
21-24. Plus 4 Level II Free Electives
25-30. Plus 6 Level III Free Electives
NOTE: Students intending to pursue the MSc. in Demography are urged to do SOCI2006—Qualitative Methods in Sociological Research and GEOG2332—Introduction to Geographical Information Systems as free electives.
Why Study Demography?
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
