LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course helps students to acquire knowledge and develop skills in the use of modern methods and technologies for regional analyzes in the field of demography, economics, policy and governance at the regional level. Subjects of the lectures are issues related to the information and modeling, data collection, field research, questionnaires preparation, processing and presentation of data, the use of statistical methods for regional analysis.
Inputs: The course is in the first year and not require prerequisites of other subjects, but knowledge from undergraduate training for collecting, processing and analyzing data can be helpful for students.

Outputs: The uptake of knowledge and skills during the course of the study may be useful in disciplines and tasks associated with the research and information search, processing and analyzing data, solving practical problems in the field of regional analyzes, and in their future experience.
Expected Results
Knowledge: In this course, students will gain knowledge about sarvremennite methods of regional analysis to study the views of different groups of respondents, and processing and analyzing quantitative information.
Skills: By solving specific tasks within the course students will develop skills to collect and analyze information from regional development: use of spreadsheets, cloud technologies for communications and surveys.