GEOG
4292 / 5292:
MIGRATION,
URBANIZATION, AND DEVELOPMENT
FALL
Instructor:
Andrei
Rogers
Course
content:
This course
will focus on the evolution of cities in the context of historical and
contemporary patterns of population growth, migration, urbanization, and
development at both global and national levels.
Course
structure:
The course
will combine lectures with class discussions and presentations. Students
will be expected to keep up with the assigned readings and come prepared to
participate in class discussions. Each student's grade will be determined
on the basis of class attendance and participation (30%), a midterm quiz (20%),
occasional homework exercises (20%), a research paper and presentation on the
life of a particular city (30%). An essay question about the city biography
project will be included in the midterm quiz; the paper itself will be due on
the last day of class.
Office
hours:
The regular
office hours are immediately after class, and will be held at 1424 Broadway (IBS
Bldg. #3). No appointment is needed during regularly scheduled office
hours. Appointments for times outside of regular office hours may be scheduled
with the instructor by telephone (492-2145), by email
(andrei.rogers@colorado.edu), or by arrangements made immediately before or
after class.
Required
texts:
1. A Concise
History of World Population (Livi-Bacci,
2001)
2. Cities and
Urban Life (Macionis and Parrillo, 1998)
Web
assignments:
Occasional
web searches will be needed to facilitate readings and research on various class
topics. All students will need to have access to a computer and the internet,
and to have an email address.
Course
outline:
The course
will start out by focusing on the history of global economic and demographic
development and the associated patterns of urbanization and city growth, then
move on to a study of immigration, internal migration, and city growth
processes, and, finally, end up with an examination of cities and human
settlement systems.
Lecture
Outline:
Part II.
Migration
Part III.
Cities and human settlement systems