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Students will gain a good overview of content, methods, and approaches both of Population and Social Geography. An important teaching aim refers to fertility, mortality, spatial mobility, as well as to the basic theories of Social Geography.

1. Introduction to Population Demography

2. National and intgernational approaches in Social Geography

3. Applied Social Geography

4. Population, Society, and Settlement

5. Measuring Spatial Demography (fertility, mortality)

6. Distribution and density of Population

7. Social space and sSpatial mobility 

input oriented course (by getting students involved)

At the end of the course (further possible repetitions in the subsequent semester)

Bähr, J. (2004): Bevölkerungsgeographie, 4. Aufl. UTB, Stuttgart

Steinicke, E. (1997): Bevölkerungsgeographie. Klett, Stuttgart et al.

Werlen, B. (2000): Sozialgeographie. UTB, Stuttgart

Weichhart, P. (2008): Entwicklungslinien der Sozialgeographie. Steiner, Stuttgart

no particular prerequisites