PdF:Ze0001 Methods in Geography - Course Information
Ze0001 Methods in Geography
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Mgr. Hana Pokorná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Mgr. Hana Pokorná, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education - Timetable
- Wed 12:05–12:50 učebna 1
- Prerequisites
- basic knowledge with PC, MS Word, Excel, Internet
- 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, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- Student will be able to work with citations, work with data, tables, graphs, interpret data, tables graphs, make statistics maps, work with basic or nonbasic files, describe files. Geographical information and its verbal, tabular, graphic and cartographic processing including the use of basic statistical methods provided in basic program equipment.
- Syllabus
- Geography as a science using methods. Basic outline of methods, data, information and its sources, basic statistical terms, graphs, cartograms and diagrams, theoretical distribution, correlation and timelines.
- 1. Creation and development of statistics, its past and present importance for geography.
- 2. Sampling.
- 3. Primary elaboration of statistical information (table, graph, statistical map and its basic components and principles of geographical feature organization and demonstration.
- 4. Descriptive statistics and its use in practice (mean value, characteristics of variability, asymmetry and acuteness)
- 5. Methods of timelines and its importance for analysis of development tendencies.
- 6. Main geographical applications of several fields of mathematical statistics (theoretical distribution of random quantities, characteristics of dependence, testing).
- 7. Use of special statistical PC programs in geography.
- Literature
- required literature
- BRÁZDIL, Rudolf. Statistické metody v geografii : cvičení. 3. vyd. Brno: Vydavatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 1995, 177 s. ISBN 8021012609. info
- recommended literature
- učebnice zeměpisu pro SŠ a ZŠ
- BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, Miroslav KOLÁŘ and Pavel PROŠEK. Statistické metody v geografii (Statistical methods in geography). Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1993, 177 pp. ISBN 80-210-1260. info
- not specified
- UČEBNICE ZEMĚPISU SŠ a ZŠ
- GREGOROVÁ, Gabriela and Valéria FILLOVÁ. Štatistické metódy v geografii. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Geo-grafika, 2004, 117 s. ISBN 8096814664. info
- HERBER, Vladimír. Statistické metody v hydrologii I. 1. vyd. Brno: Rektorát Masarykovy university, 1990, 120 s. ISBN 80-210-0127-5. info
- BRÁZDIL, Rudolf. Statistické metody v geografii - cvičení. 2. vyd. Brno: Rektorát Masarykovy university, 1989, 177 s. ISBN 8021000414. URL info
- BRÁZDIL, Rudolf, René WOKOUN, Pavel PROŠEK, Zdeňka TARABOVÁ and Miroslav KOLÁŘ. Statistické metody v geografii - cvičení. Vyd. 1. Brno: Rektorát UJEP, 1981, 177 s. info
- WOKOUN, René, Pavel PROŠEK, Zdeňka TARABOVÁ, Miroslav KOLÁŘ and Rudolf BRÁZDIL. Statistické metody v geografii : cvičení. Vyd. 1. Brno: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Brně, 1981, 177 s. info
- CYHELSKÝ, Lubomír and Jan ZELINKA. Statistické metody v příkladech. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1960. info
- Teaching methods
- lecture
- Assessment methods
- Regular teaching according to the schedule, lectures. To complete this course successfully, it is necessary to pass a written test (theoretical and practical parts) – calculations, graphs, maps etc.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Podmínkou připuštění ke zkoušce je získání zápočtu ze Ze0002
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
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