6 ECTS credits
172 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4009512FNW for working students in the 1st semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- NOTE: registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Sociology
- Educational team
- Patrick Deboosere
(course titular)
Hannelore De Grande
- Activities and contact hours
-
8 contact hours Lecture
36 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
128 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
Series of exercises to be elaborated concerning demographic projections and scenarios of demographic evolutions.
- Additional info
Analysis & discussion on reports:
UN Human Development Report
UN World Population Prospects
Studiecommissie voor de Vergrijzing (HRF), Jaarlijks Verslag
Federaal Planbureau, Bevolkingsvooruitzichten 2007-2060, Mei 2008
Observatorium voor Gezondheid en Welzijn Brussel, Gezondheidsindicatoren
Observatorium voor Gezondheid en Welzijn Brussel, Armoederapport
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
Hands-on experience with demographic analysis and projections
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 40% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral Exam
with a relative weight of 40
which comprises 40% of the final mark.
Note: Individual oral presentation of the paper
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Research Project
with a relative weight of 60
which comprises 60% of the final mark.
Note: Group task: elaborating and discussing an application - short paper
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Not applicable.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Sociology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)