Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

I. Objectives
a. To identify the problems of the distribution of the Chilean population.
b. To know the causes of the decrease in births in our country.
c. To know and understand the composition of the Chilean population according to economic activity.
d. To know the population policies applied in our country.

II. Contents
a. Introduction: Information sources in population matters.
i. Vital registries
ii. Census
iii. Continuous population registries
b. World population
i. Concepts of:
1. Population doctrines and policies. Application of the latter in different countries
2. Overpopulation, sub-population and optimum population
3. Analysis of migrations
4. Qualitative (place of origin, destination, history, causes and consequences)
5. Quantitatively (fluxes)
c. Factors that influence the actual distribution of the Chilean population
i. Physical factors
ii. Human factors
iii. Economic factors
d. Historical antecedents of the Chilean population
i. Precolombian population
ii. Colonial population
iii. Population in the last century
iv. Actual population
e. Dynamic characteristics of the popluation
i. Birth and fertility
ii. Death
iii. Vegitative growth
iv. Migrations
f. Composition of the Chilean population
i. Sex
ii. Age
iii. Economic activity
iv. Level of education
g. Actual policies of the Chilean population