ANTHRO 337
Birth, Death, and Disease: Anthropological Demography
Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for ANTHRO 337.
Description
Examines how human populations change over time, what factors underlie patterns of disease and death, and why demography is so important to the study of epidemics. The course will explore the use of demographic methods and theories of demographic and epidemiological transition to examine fertility, morbidity, mortality and migration from an anthropological perspective, with a particular focus on infectious disease dynamics.
Availability 2016
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Dr Heather Battles
Points
ANTHRO 337: 15 points
Prerequisites
ANTHRO 201 or 120 points passed