The purpose of this programme is to equip students with specific skills to understand population processes and engage in debates on these processes which are an essential component of planning all over the world and specifically in South Africa.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years part time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Introduction to Sociology: Societal structures and processes
- Introductory demography
- World issues: a geographical perspective
- Basic statistics
- Critical reasoning
Second year subjects:
- Theories of social change
- Sociology of population
- Sociology of families and social problems
- Research in the social sciences
- The African challenge: people and environment
Third year subjects:
- Thinking sociologically: research methodology
- Group dynamics
- Social theory
- State of the environment in Southern Africa
- Qualitative research methodology: the anthropological strategy
Careers: population analyst, researcher.
Source: www.unisa.ac.za