Ze2MP_AOP0 Regional Geography of Australia, Oceania and Polar Regions

Faculty of Education
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Dana Hübelová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jozef Mečiar (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Jozef Mečiar
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Timetable
Wed 8:50–9:35 učebna 5
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
Course objectives
The aim of the tuition is to give the imagination of the Australia, Oceania, Atnartic and Arctic as the functional units of various dimensions and hierarchical formatting on the base of natural and corresponding economical and social parameters. Students have to display the ability of composing partial component pieces of information and subsumtioning lokalizated peaces of information into their context.
Syllabus
  • The Fundamental Themes of Lectures:
  • I. Australia and Oceania
  • 1. The determination and delimitation of the region
  • 2. The physically geographical characteristics of the region a) Geology and paleogeography; b) Geomorphology; c) Climate; d) Waters; e) Soils; f) Biota;
  • 3. Demographical and settlemet characteristics of the region
  • 4. Socially economic characteristics of the region a) Agriculture; b) Mine and manufacturing industry; c) Transport; e) Other tertiary activity; f) Quaternary sector
  • 5. The historically- and politically geographical characteristics of the region
  • 6. Landscape and environment
  • 7. Coplex characterization of the region, integration and disintegration, the relatons to Czech republic.
  • 8. The subreginonalization of the region and complex characterization of subregions and countries
  • a) Australia
  • b) New Zealand
  • c) Polynesia
  • d) Mikronesia
  • e) Melanesia II. Antarctic - comlex survey
  • III. Arctic - comlex survey
  • IV. Geography of oceans
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
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