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There is no examination or formal paper required and the Pass/Fail criterion will be used. There are many conceivable topics that could be covered and to some extent we will be influenced by the interests of participants. Although no formal paper is required, each student will be expected to make a brief report to the seminar on some topic of particular interest. This report will be oral (no written product is necessary) and will be scheduled for the last of the six week sessions. Including this last session, there are eight topics listed below which will be consolidated as we proceed.

Most of the emphasis will be on third world population subjects although we will reserve one session for policy issues in developed countries.

The class is scheduled to meet on Tuesdays, 2-5.

United Nations, Concise Report on the World Population Situation in 1995. New York, 1995.
Keyfitz, Nathan and K. Lindahl-Kiessling. "The World Population Debate: Urgency of the Problem" in Sir Francis Graham Smith ed., Population: The Complex Reality. London: The Royal Society, pp.21-51.
Lutz, Wolfgang. "The Future of World Population", Population Bulletin 49,1. June, 1994. 42pp.
Cleland, John. "Different Pathways to Demographic Transition" in Population: The Complex Reality op.cit. pp.229-247.
Cohen, Joel. How Many People Can the Earth Support? Norton, 1995. Chaps.7,8,9.
Moffett, George D. Critical Masses, Viking, 1994. Chaps.1-2.
Wattenberg, Ben J. "The Population Explosion is Over" The New York Times Magazine, Nov.23,1997, pp.60-63.

Westoff, Charles F. and Akin Bankole, "Unmet Need:1990-1994", DHS Comparative Studies 16, June,1995.
Pritchett, Lance, "Desired Fertility and the Impact of Population Policies," Population and Development Review 20, 1, March 1994.
Bongaarts, John, "The Impact of Population Policies: Comment", Population and Development Review 20,3, September 1994.
Pritchett, Lance, "The Impact of Population Policies: Reply" Population and Development Review 20,3, September 1994.
Cleland, John and C. Wilson, "Demand Theories of the Fertility Transition: An Iconoclastic View," Population Studies,41, 1987.

Malthus. T.R. "Overpopulation Is a Serious Problem" in Charles Hohm and Lori Jones,eds. Population: Opposing Viewpoints, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, 1995. pp.29-35.
Engels, Frederick, "Overpopulation is a Myth" in Hoohm and Jones, op.cit pp.36-40.
Cohen, Joel, "There are Too Many People on the Planet" in Hohm and Jones, op.cit.,pp.64-68.
Simon, Julian, "There is an Impending Shortage of People," in Hohm and Jones, op.cit., pp.69-74.
Cohen, Joel, op.cit., Chap.14 "Water: A Case Study of Natural Constraints."
Orians, Carolyn and Marina Skumanich, The Population-Environment Connection. December 1995.
Moffett, George op.cit. Chap.3.
Preston, Samuel H. "Population and the Environment: The Scientific Evidence" in Population: The Complex Reality, op.cit., pp.85-92.
Demeny, Paul "Tradeoffs between Human Numbers and Material Standards of Living," in Resources, Environment and Population, Supplement to Population Development Review
Ehrlich, Paul R., Anne H. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily, The Stork and the Plow, Grosset/Putnam, 1995. Chaps.1,6.
Keyfitz, Nathan, "Population and Development Within the Ecosphere: One View of the Literature" Focus Winter, 1992, pp.12-25.

Population Resource Center, "A History of the United Nations Population Conferences", Executive Summary, 1994.
United Nations, Programme of Action of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development 1994.
Bongaarts, John "Population Policies in the Developing World," Science 263, Feb.11, 1994.
Dixon-Mueller, Ruth. Population Policy and Women's Rights, Praeger, Westport,Conn. 1993.
Westoff, Charles F. "International Population Policy", Society 32,3, 1995.
Westoff, Charles F. "Finally, Control Population" and Ellen Chesler, "Stop Coercing Women." New York Times Magazine, Feb.6, 1994.
McIntosh, A. and Jason Finkle, "The Cairo Conference on Population and Development", Population Development Review 21,2, June,1995.
Harkavy, Oscar. Curbing Population Growth: An Insider's Perspective on the Population Movement, Plenum, 1995.
Moffett, George, op.cit. Chaps.5-7.
Sinding, Steven W., John Ross, and Allan G. Rosenfield, "Seeking Common Ground: Unmet Need and Demographic Goals", International Family Planning Perpectives 20,1, March 1994.

Conly,Shanti and Sharon Camp, India's Family Planning Challenge:From Rhetoric to Actionf. Population Crisis Committee, Washington,D.C., 1992.
Visaria,Leela and Pravin Visaria, "India's Population in Transition," Population Bulletin 50,3, 1995.
Conly,Shanti and Sharon Camp, China's Family Planning Program. Population Crisis Committee, Washington,D.C., 1992.
Larson, Ann and S.N. Mitra, "Family Planning in Bangladesh: An Unlikely Success Story." International Family Planning Perspectives 18,4, December, 1992.

Bouvier,Leon and Lindsey Grant. How Many Americans? Sierra Club, 1994
Rolph, Elizabeth. Immigration Policies: Legacy from the 1980s and Issues for the 1990s. Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Calif. 1992.
National Academy of Sciences. J.P.Smith and B.Edmonston,eds. The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, 1997. Summary chapter, pp.1-13
Espenshade, T.J. "Undocumented Migration to the United States" in F.Bean et.al., Undocumented Migration to the United States. Urban Institute, Washington,D.C., 1990, pp.159-181.
Popenoe, David, "American Family Decline, 1960-1990: A Review and Appraisal" Journal of Marriage and the Family 55, August, 1993.
Westoff, Charles F. "Perspective on Nuptiality and Fertility" in Kingsley Davis, et.al., Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Demeny, Paul "Pronatalist Policies in Low-Fertility Countries: Patterns, Performance and Prospects" in K. Davis, op.cit.
McIntosh, C. Alison "Recent Pronatalist Policies in Western Europe" in K. Davis, op.cit.
Westoff,Charles F. "Replacement Fertility: A Magnetic Force?" in Lutz, Wolfgang (Ed.) Future Demographic Trends in Europe and North America. Academic Press, 1991.
Hohn, Charlotte "Policies Relevant to Fertility" in Lutz, Future Demographic Trends in Europe and North America, op.cit.

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