PřF:Z7890 Application in Geography - Course Information
Z7890 Application in Regional and Social Geography
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Petr Daněk, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniel Seidenglanz, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ivan Andráško, PhD. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D. - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- Z7890/01: Thu 14:00–15:50 Z4,02028, I. Andráško, P. Daněk, O. Mulíček, D. Seidenglanz
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PROGRAM(N-GK)
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Applied Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Regional Geography and Regional Planning (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography and Regional Development (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Course objectives
- The main objective of the course is to enhance analytical skills of students and their capacity to apply different methods to solution of concrete practical issues. At the end of the course the students will be able to solve different problems by application of advanced statistical methods (such as multiple regression, factor, cluster), methods of demographic projections, and methods of stategic documents preparation.
- Syllabus
- Topics of lectures: 1. Changing approaches to doing research in human geography.
- 2. Demographic projection methods 1 (cohort-component method).
- 3. Demographic projection methods 2 (other methods).
- 4. Discriminant analysis and its application in human geography.
- 5. Cluster analysis and its application in human geography.
- 6. Factor analysis and its application in human geography.
- 7. Introduction to analysis of large data sets in human geography.
- 8. Regional HDP, analysis of labor market development.
- 9. Assessment of employment structure, specialization, diverzification.
- 10. Methods of preparation and negotiation of strategic programming documents for bodies on various hierarchical level of goverment.
- 11. Regression analysis and examples of its application in social and electoral geography. 12. Geographical perception and examples of application of spatial preferences maps in prognosing migration trends.
- Literature
- HEBÁK, a kol. Vícerozměrné statistické metody 2. Praha: Informatorium Praha, 2005. info
- HEBÁK, Petr. Vícerozměrné statistické metody 3. Praha: Informatorium, 2005. ISBN 80-7333-039-3. info
- HERNANDEZ, Michael J. and John VIESCAS. Myslíme v jazyku SQL : tvorba dotazů. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2004, 378 s. ISBN 802470899X. info
- ROWLAND, D. T. Demographic methods and concepts. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xiv, 546. ISBN 0198752636. info
- Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost :příručka pro uživatele. Edited by Miroslav Disman. 3. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2000, 374 s. ISBN 80-246-0139-7. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, class discussion, examples of geographical practices
- Assessment methods
- Lectures, practical examples, class discussion, small individual projects. The course ends with an oral colloquium.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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