Level:  master academic studies

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Demographic issues are among the most topical and the most complex issues through which rules and regulations of social development are studied. Any further development and prosperity of a society depends on the demographic potentials and resources. This means that their qualitative improvement is a catalyst for social advancement. Development of demographic studies is of general social interest. Therefore, it is important to educate future specialists who will be able to observe and analyze competently demographic conditions and processes, to find appropriate solutions for current demographic issues, to develop a system of measures for enhancement of positive demographic development, as well as to apply their knowledge in planning future socio-economic and spatial development. The balance between theoretical and practical knowledge, which is acquired during the course of studies in demography, with the correlating scientific disciplines, provides demographers with broad knowledge. The course of study in Demography provides a modern and multidisciplinary context of population survey. It supports analytic, systematic and creative way of thinking as well as the application of knowledge. The basic course of study prepares students for the scientific research at the higher levels of education whose outcome is the theoretical and methodological enhancement of demography.

Goals of the Demography Master programme are: 1. forming the fundamental and applicative demographic knowledge, together with a set of correlating specific disciplines which are all needed for the analysis and study of population; research and explanation of the mass demographic occurences that are of special significance for the development of any society; description of the interaction and influence between population on one hand and environmental, social, economic and regional development; role of humans in creating and changing the geospatial reality; 2. forming the skills necessary for planning, organizing and realizing field, survey and other kinds of population study, as well as the skills needed for the statistical observation, for suggesting methodological solutions in population cesuses, vital and migrational statistical studies, for suggesting guidelines for their standardization and harmonization; 3.forming of knowledge and attitudes concerning political actions about the issue of childbearing, as well as those concerning the issues relevant for health promotion; implementation of the migratory policies and political solutions for the aging of population; training for the planning and defining of the measures of population policies in Serbia; 4. training for the application of various techniques and methods of population calculation or of certain categories of population; 5.training of experts - demographers for critical evaluation of the demographic situation and demographic resources, and action planning for the change in attitudes when issues of childbearing, health and migrations are concerned.

Outcomes of the Demography Master programme: ♦ ability to apply demographic knowledge in all domains of observation, analysis and examination of human resources and potentials (population, family and household studies) conducted in various research institutions, statistics agencies and organizations involved in social development, insurance, etc; ♦ ability to critically observe population, family and household changes registered by the municipal records' offices, statistics agencies and insurance companies; ♦ ability to apply demographic knowledge for the urban, spatial, regional and economic planning; ♦ ability to apply demographic knowledge and skills necessary for selection, organization and administration of population surveys, field research, market research, workforce, employment, etc; conceiving the programmes for statistical data presentations; ♦ ability to select contents and methods of population survey within different domains and various issues (interview, questionnaire, etc);

Applicants who have graduated from the corresponding four year institutions are eligible to apply for the Master programme in Demography

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