1) (a) Acquaintance with the objectives and conditions of the course; (b) testing student initial knowledge, (c) an introduction to the problem: basic concepts, regional demography and demography of the world regions in literature.

2) (a) Study of the territorial aspects of population development; (b) basic sources of information about the population development in territory: origin, availability, quality and comparability of data; selected secondary sources of information.

3) Regional differentiation of population structures and processes: objectives and importance, methods of evaluating regional differentiation; sources of geographical differences and regularity of their development.

4) Demographic regionalization and typology: selected methods of demographic regions delimitation, typology of regions, the regional divisions of the world and selected international typology of countries and territories of the world.

5) Population and development: context and conceptualisation, the world conferences on population and development, major players in the field of population and development: roles, goals, activities, coordination; strategic documents.

6) Population in international development programs and strategies: ICPD Program of Action, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the MDGs, MIPAA, ICPD Beyond 2014 Post-2015 Agenda.

7) (a) Population in the activities of the United Nations system; (b) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): history, mission, structure of regional, global and regional programs, methods and standards work, implementation partnership of Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science and UNFPA EECARO.

8-13) Demography and population issues of particular world regions.

14) Seminar: students’ presentations on selected themes with floor discussion.