Population Studies has been designed to acquaint the students with the concept, knowledge, and dynamics of population studies, population characteristics, world population situation, determinants and measures of demographic components, population theories, and population trends, mathematical & statistical tools, problems, and their control measures.
Disclaimer: This is the old syllabus of NEB.For 2076 Upadted syllabus with PDF download option,visit: NEB 2076 Updated Syllabus
Grade: Xl
Full Marks: 100 (80 T +10 P)
Pass Marks: 28 T +8 P
Teaching hours: 180
1. Introduction
Population Studies has been designed to acquaint the students with the concept, knowledge, and dynamics of population studies, population characteristics, world population situation, determinants and measures of demographic components, population theories, and population trends, mathematical & statistical tools, problems, and their control measures. This the course is designed as a link between the secondary school level of population education and the bachelor’s level of population education /studies at the university and has two parts: theoretical (80%,) and practical (20%). The students are required to pass both the parts separately.
II. General Objectives
The general objectives of the Population Studies Syllabus course arc:
a. to introduce to the students the basic concepts of population studies: and
b. to develop their insights into the interrelationship between population growth and various processes of social and economic development at individual, family, community, national and global levels.
III. Specific Objectives
At the end of grade XI the students will be able to:
1. explain the meaning of population studies and its importance:
2. state the objectives and major areas of population studies;
3.discuss the meaning, characteristics, population size, composition, distribution, and density of population with reference to Nepal;
4. explain the various sources of population data;
5.compare the population growth trends in developed, developing and SAARC
countries;
6.identify the trends and problems arising out of population growth;
7. explain the world population growth and its trends:
8. differentiate between demographic components, processes and measures;
9. discuss the determinants and trends of mortality and fertility:
10.describe the meaning, types, causes & consequences of migration;
11.compute demographic measures on fertility, mortality, migration and population growth;
12.discuss the Malthus, Optimum and Karl Marx theories of population:
13. explain the concepts and the different stages of demographic transition;
14.acquire skills and proficiency in applying mathematical concepts to solve computational problems in population studies;
15. apply the formulae to population-related data:
16. draw graphs of population data and interpret the trends:
17. apply the mathematical symbols to simplify the population statements:
18. apply the quadratic equation to obtain the ‘intrinsic, rate of growth’ (r) of the population; and
19. use the basic skills of data collection, report writing and report presentation:
IV, Course Scheme:
|
Units
|
Chapters
|
Teaching hours
|
|
1
|
Population Studies
|
7
|
|
2
|
Population (with reference to Nepal)
|
23
|
|
3
|
Population Trends, Problems, and Management
|
12
|
|
4
|
World Population situation
|
18
|
|
5
|
Sources of Population Data
|
14
|
|
6
|
Demography
|
35
|
|
7
|
Population Theories
|
9
|
|
8
|
Mathematics in Demographical Analysis
|
32
|
|
9
|
Practicum
|
30
|
|
Total
|
180
|
V. Course contents
1. Population Studies 7 teaching hours
Concept and importance
§ Objectives
§ Major areas and dimensions
2. Population (with reference to Nepal) 23 teaching hours
• Concepts and importance
• Characteristics of the population: Martial status, literacy, educational status, labor-force status
• Population size & its growth: Composition- age, sex, religion, occupation, ethnicity, mother tongue, education
• Distribution -ecological, regional & rural-urban
• Population pyramid- types and its construction
• Population density- computation
Aging: meaning, needs & importance, family support and care for the elderly people.
3. Population Trends, Problems, and Management 12 teaching hrs
• Emerging trends and population situation
• Emerging trends and population situation
-Emerging population trends and problems in Nepal
• Population related attitudes, beliefs, and values
– Family size
– Age at marriage
– Child Sex-preference (male)
• Problems arising out of population growth:
Basic needs: food, shelter, clothes, health, education, security, safe drinking water, recreation, employment, and environment.
Population management
4. World Population Situation 18 teaching hours
• World population growth and its trend
• Situation in developed & developing countries
• Situation in the SAARC countries
• Population growth measure – the rate of natural increase ( RNI ), balancing equation, arithmetical geometrical, exponential and doubling time and their computation.
5. Sources of Population Data 14 teaching hrs
• Census
• Vital registration
• Sample survey
• Administrative records
6. Demography
Concept and its importance
§ Demographic components, processes, and measures
§ Fertility and fecundity
i. Concepts ii.Dcteimints
iii. Trends
iii. Trends
iv. Measures: Crude Birth Rate (CBR), Age-Specific Birth Rate (ASBR), Total Fertility Rate (TFR), General Fertility Rate (GFR) Child-Woman Ratio (CWR)and Children Ever Born
(CEB). Gross Reproduction Rate (GRR) and Net Reproduction Rate (NRR)
• Mortality and Morbidity
i. Concepts of morbidity and death
ii. Factors affecting mortality
iii. Causes of mortality decline in Nepal
iv. Determinants
v. Trends
ii. Factors affecting mortality
iii. Causes of mortality decline in Nepal
iv. Determinants
v. Trends
vi. Measures: Crude Death Rate (CDR), Age-Specific Death Rate (ASDR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Child Mortality Rate (CTVIR). Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR).
• Migration
i. Concept of mobility
ii. Determinants- Demographic, Social, Economic, Political and Natural; Push and
Pull factors
iii. Trends (internal and international)
iii. Trends (internal and international)
• Types of Migration
• Causes and consequences of Migrations.
• Measures: In migration Rate (IMR), Out Migration Rate (OMR), Net Migration Rate (NMR) Gross Migration Rate (GMR)
7. Population Theories 9 teaching hours
Importance and criticism: Malthusian theory, Optimum theory, Karl Marx Theory and Demographic transition
•Demographic Transition: Concepts, Assumption, and Stages; Landry, Thompson, Notestcin and CP Blacker
•Demographic Transition: Concepts, Assumption, and Stages; Landry, Thompson, Notestcin and CP Blacker
8. Mathematics in Demographical Analysis 32 teaching hours
Real numbers, absolute value, average, absolute numbers, relative numbers (Proportions, ratios, rates)
• Set theory
i. Concept of set and sub-sets, set notations
ii. Universal set, null set, finite and infinite sets
iii. Union and intersection of sets.
ii. Universal set, null set, finite and infinite sets
iii. Union and intersection of sets.
• Relation, Mappings, and Functions
Logarithms
• Simultaneous Linear Equations:
i. Constants and variables
ii.Direct and indirect variation
iii. Equations and identities
ii.Direct and indirect variation
iii. Equations and identities
iv. Graphical and algebraically solution of linear equations
v. Graphical representation of inequalities.
v. Graphical representation of inequalities.
• Quadratic equations
i. Solving quadratic equations in standard form
ii. Solving quadratic equations by factorization
iii.Application of the problems involving quadratic equations.
• Analytic geometry
ii. Solving quadratic equations by factorization
iii.Application of the problems involving quadratic equations.
• Analytic geometry
i. Cartesian plane
ii. Distance between two points
ii. Distance between two points
iii. Equation of a straight line in form y, 1, 0
• Matrice and Determinants:
Simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication;
A solution of two and three unknowns by matrix method and determinants,
(Using Cramer’s Rule/Inverse Method)
9. Practicum 30 teaching hours
VI. Instructional Materials
• Atlas/Globe
• National Report Census 2001 (CBS), Kathmandu.
• Population Monograph of Nepal ( 1987, 1995 and 2003) World Population Data (Current year) ESCAP, Bangkok.
• National Planning Commission (7th to current plans)
VII. Instructional Techniques Student-centred techniques:
(a) role play
(b) demonstration
(c) discussion
(d) individual /group work
(c) fieldwork project work etc
(f) report presentation
(g) self-study
(h) problem solving method.
(i) case study.
VII. Scheme of Assessment
|
S.N
|
Type of
Questions
|
Duration
|
Number of Questions
|
Maximum
Marks
|
Full Marks
|
Pass Marks
|
|
1
|
Th. Short
|
3 hrs
|
6
|
6×8=48
|
80
|
28
|
|
2
|
Th. Long
|
2
|
2×16=32
|
|||
|
3
|
Practicum
|
Report+ Viva
|
20
|
20
|
8
|
The candidates are required to attempt 6 short questions out of 8 and 2 long questions out of 3.
IX. Prescribed Texts
1. Bista, Premsing et.al, Population Studies-XI, Bhundipuran Prakashan, Ktm
2. lji6, k|]dl;+x / dx]Gb|/fh hf]zL, @)^!, hg;+Vof cWoog efu !, e’F8Lk’/f0f k|sfzg, sf7d8f}F 3. Bhande, AshaA. & Tara Kanitkar (2003) Principles of Population Studies, Himalaya Publishing House
4. 1jfnL, bfdf]b/, @)^) hg;+Vof lzIff -kfFrf}F ;+:s/0f_, ljBfyL{ k’:ts e08f/ .
5. zfx, 8f=cf/=s], @)^!, hg;V+ of lzIff XI, Pstf a’S; l8l:6«Jo’6;{ k|f=ln= yfkfynL, sf7df8fF} .
6. Jacobson W. J., 1979, Population Education. A knowledge Base, Teachers College, Colombia University, New York.
7. o’lg;]km g]kfn, !((#, :j:y hLjgsf] ;/n tl/sf .
People who read this may also like to read
Or Download All NEB updated syllabus NEB 2076 Updated Syllabus