PdF:Ze0031 General Regional Geography - Course Information

Ze0031 General Regional Geography

Extent and Intensity

1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography (programme PdF, M-ZS4)
• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography (programme PdF, M-ZS5)

Course objectives

The goal of course is to get basic knownledge about specific regions of the world. The specific objectives are: - on the basis of the concrete analysis and solving of selected problems to generalize some themes of regional geography of continents, - use geographical informations in other courses, - with emphasis on the problem of didactics transformation.

Syllabus

• 1) The evolution of conception of Regional Geography and the conception of its object
• 2) The object of Regional Geography
• 3) The selected problems of region
• 4) The Regiogeographical aspect and targets
• 5) The structure of Regional Geography
• 6) The position of Regional Geography in the system of sciences
• 7) The importance of Regional Geography
• 8) The access, medology and basical methods of Regional Geography
• 9) The principles and methods of regionalisation
• 10) The geographical regionalisations of the world
• 11) The geographical regionalisations of the parts of the world
• 12) Regional position of the Czech Republic in the framework of the hierarchicaly hihgher units.
• 13) The Regionalisation of Czech Republic. The evolution of accesses.
• 14) The regional aspects of integrative processes.

Literature

required literature
• KUNC, Josef, Václav TOUŠEK, Jiří VYSTOUPIL, Petr DANĚK, Pavel KLAPKA, Ondřej MULÍČEK, Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Michal VANČURA, Antonín VĚŽNÍK, Milan VITURKA and Petr TONEV. Ekonomická a sociální geografie (Economic and social geography). 1. vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2008, 411 pp. učebnice vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4. info
• MEČIAR, Jozef. Obecná regionální geografie. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 140 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4011-3. info
• BAŠOVSKÝ, Oliver and Viliam LAUKO. Úvod do regionálnej geografie. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, 1990, 118 s. ISBN 8008002786. info

Teaching methods

Discussion Cooperative forms education Particular presentation Theoretic and practical preparing for education on primary school

Assessment methods

Credit course, active participation, homeworks.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• Ze0020 Geography of Population and Settlements

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2012, recent)
  
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