Theoretical and pragmatic aspects of community problems and development. Population distribution, composition, growth, migration, vital processes and problems. Development, current organization, and financing of the contemporary health-care system in the U.S. from a comparative perspective. Practical research experience through the development of social research designs, data collection in the field and detailed analysis and discussion of collected data. An examination of the theory and methods of community study.
Major focus is the community in change.
Current data bases, methods in demographic research and their applications. Basic theory and methods applied to selected areas of sociological analysis.