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