Actuarial and Financial Sciences

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.