PdF:ZeC010 Geography of population and se - Course Information

ZeC010 Geography of population and settlements

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Bc. Darina Mísařová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education

Prerequisites

- Basic knowledge of the terms of social geography.
- Ability to work with the selected school world atlas and atlas of the Czech Republic.
- Ability to work with ArcGIS, MS Office.

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

• Geography Teacher Education for Lower Secondary Schools (programme PdF, C-CV)

Course objectives

The course consists of two separate disciplines of human geography - population geography and geography of settlements whose aim is to promote knowledge of the distribution of population and settlements in geographical space.
The aim is to gain basic knowledge of spatial distribution of population and settlement on Earth.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students should be able to:
- find and use relevant data to analyze the distribution of inhabitants and settlements on Earth,
- explain basic approaches to the structure of the world population,
- use the information obtained in the subjects of regional geography of continents.

Syllabus

• Population Geography
• 1: Population development in history
• 2: Population Structure
• 3: Migration
• 4: Mechanical movement of the population
• 5: Anthropogenesis, demographic revolution
• 6: Population distribution on Earth
• Geography of settlements
• 1: Basic concepts of geography of settlements
• 2: Rural settlement
• 3: Urban settlement
• 4: Urbanization
• 5: Geography of Brno

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

Teaching methods

Teaching will take the form of lectures - theoretical preparation of basic demographic and settlement terminology. The course also includes exercises. Students use the assigned text for their study - see compulsory literature.

Assessment methods

Examination - written exam based on literature, lectures and the exercises.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hod.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
  
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