Educational objectives Learning goals
The main learning goal is knowledge about potential of demographic variable and techniques in demography-related fields, with special attention to social security, health organization, business strategies.
Knowledge and understanding
The purpose of the laboratory is to make the students – who are looking at their future professional life - aware of importance of demographic skills, as regards issues and methods, to better evaluate impacts of population changes on markets (goods and services) and on society.
Applying knowledge and understanding
Lab of Demography offers skills at analyzing and interpreting relationship between demographic trends and the fundamental fields of human activity in society.
Making judgements
The lab aims at providing specific competences, particularly for population forecasts, use of population data sources, use of methods for causal analysis, making the students able and self-confident in selecting data and tecniques and in developing critical evaluation skills.
Communication skills
A group of frontal lessons are devoted to acquire basic skills for presentation and communication of knowledge and any results, allowing students to develop some communication skills, also thanks to study groups experience.
Learning skills
After passing the final test the student acquires substantial knowledge, specific skills and capacity to completely read and present population trend and phenomena.
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Educational objectives Learning goals
The primary educational objective of the course is the students' learning of some actuarial models for the evaluation of insurance coverage typical of life and non life line of business through the IT application, the use of some dedicated software packages and software “ad hoc” implemented.
Knowledge and understanding.
After attending the course the students know theoretically and know how to deal with topics of particular interest in the actuarial technique of life and non life insurance.
Applying knowledge and understanding.
At the end of the course, students are able to construct and apply some evaluation models typical of the actuarial technique of life and non life insurance, using specific software as well as to interpret the results.
Making judgements.
Students develop critical skills through the application of different typical actuarial models in life and non life insurance, also using experience data.
From the analysis of the results, the students learn a critical vision of the applied evaluation models.
Communication skills.
The students, through the study and practical application, acquire the technical language of the discipline, which must be used appropriately in the final test.
Communication skills are also developed through group activities.
Learning skills.
Students passing the exam have learned knowledge and method of analysis that allows them to deal with the topics developed during the course independently.
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