PřF:Z0043 Population geography - Course Information
Z0043 Population geography and geodemography
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Milan Jeřábek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jiří Malý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Alan Faltýnek (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Milan Jeřábek, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Milan Jeřábek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Mon 14:00–15:50 Z5,02004
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- KREDITY_MIN(40)
- 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: 23/30, only registered: 0/30 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Physical Geography (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Geographical Cartography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Geography and Cartography with a view to Education (programme PřF, B-UCZ) (2)
- Geoinformatics and Regional Development (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Social Geography (programme PřF, B-GEK)
- Course objectives
- The course is an introduction to basic approaches to the spatial analysis of population distribution, its composition and development. Seminars focused on acquiring practical analytical methods are an integral part of the course.
- Learning outcomes
- The graduate of the course focuses on population issues from a geographic / complex point of view, namely development and number, structure, movement and basic population processes at different hierarchical levels.
- Syllabus
- Lectures:
- 1. Introduction. History of the discipline.
- 2. Data sources, availibility of data (history of population censuses and registration).
- 3. Antropogenesis. Distribution of population on Earth. Racial differentiation.
- 4. Development of world population (history, future).
- 5. Distribution of population with respect to natural and social environment.
- 6. Methods of analysis of population distribution.
- 7. Introduction to demography: demographic data a indicators, time in demographic analysis.
- 8. Age and sex structure of population.
- 9. Structure of population based on economic signs.
- 10. Structure of population based on cultural signs.
- 11. Introduction to natural reproduction of population - natality, mortality, population increase / decrease.
- Seminars:
- 1. Essay: reasons / factors of small population increase in Europe before the middle of the 18. century.
- 2. Data sources: analysis of long-term population development.
- 3. Population distribution according to the altitude.
- 4. Maximally populated areas and their development.
- 5. Sex composition of the population according to the age.
- 6. Age-sex composition of the population.
- 7. Basic measures of natality, fertility and reproduction.
- 8. Construction of life tables.
- Literature
- Životní cyklus : sociologické a demografické perspektivy. Edited by Dana Hamplová - Petra Šalamounová - Gabriela Šamanová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 2006, 307 s. ISBN 8073300826. info
- BAILEY, Adrian. Making population geography. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005, xiii, 226. ISBN 0340762640. info
- ROWLAND, D. T. Demographic methods and concepts. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xiv, 546. ISBN 0198752636. info
- FIALOVÁ, Ludmila. Představy mladých lidí o manželství a rodičovství. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2000, 163 s. ISBN 80-85850-87-7. info
- Populační vývoj České republiky 1998. Edited by Zdeněk Pavlík - Milan Kučera. 1. vyd. Praha: Katedra demografie a geodemografie Přírodovědecké fakulty Univerzity Karlovy, 1999, 97 s., tab. ISBN 80-902154-8-3. info
- ROUBÍČEK, Vladimír. Úvod do demografie. 1. vyd. Praha: CODEX Bohemia, 1997, 348 s. ISBN 80-85963-43-4. info
- MLÁDEK, Jozef. Základy geografie obyvatel'stva. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Slovenské pedagogické nakladatel'stvo, 1992, 230 s. ISBN 8008007680. info
- BAŠOVSKÝ, Oliver and Jozef MLÁDEK. Geografia obyvatel'stva a sídiel. 2. nezm. vyd. Bratislava: Universita Komenského, 1989, 221 s. ISBN 80-223-0026-8. info
- PAVLÍK, Zdeněk, Jitka RYCHTAŘÍKOVÁ and Alena ŠUBRTOVÁ. Základy demografie. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1986, 732 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching methods - lectures, class discussion, homework.
- Assessment methods
- Check-up of elaborated seminar papers. Written exam (test).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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