PřF:Z0040 Geography of Europe - Course Information
Z0040 Geography of Europe
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 3/1/0. 4 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Miroslav Kolář, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Antonín Věžník, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Herzán (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Bc. Denisa Witoszová (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Antonín Věžník, CSc. - Timetable
- Thu 11:00–13:50 A,01026
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
Z0040/2: Mon 18:00–18:50 Z5,02004, D. Witoszová
Z0040/3: Mon 9:00–9:50 Z3,02045, O. Herzán
Z0040/4: Wed 12:00–12:50 Z4,02028, O. Herzán - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PROGRAM(N-GK) || PROGRAM(N-CH) || PROGRAM(N-BI) || PROGRAM(N-MA) || KREDITY_MIN(60)
- 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 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 17 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to make students acquainted with the analyses of spatial organisation of socio-economic system of Europe. Basic geographic characteristics of space. Population and human settlements. Territorial structure of economy and structure of branches. Industry, Agriculture, Transport, Tourism and recreation in the European space. Main axis and regions of development - macroregions of Europe.
- Syllabus
- Physical geography of Europe.
- Geographical boundaries of Europe against Asia, differnt conceptions. Population of Europe and superficy of Europe (with different possibilities in Russia). Structure of European population. Europe after the fall of bipolar model of the World.
- Regional geography of European counties (inclusively European part of Russia, Slovakia, exclusively the Czech Republic).
- Literature
- VITURKA, Milan, Stanislav ŘEHÁK and Michal VANČURA. Regionální geografie Evropy a ČR (Regional geography of the Europe and C.R.). 2. vydání. Brno: MU - ESF, 2004, 126 pp. ISBN 80-210-3504-8. info
- BIČÍK, Ivan. Regionální zeměpis světadílů :učebnice zeměpisu pro střední školy. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství České geografické společnosti, 2000, 137 s. ISBN 80-86034-43-7. info
- KRÁL, Václav. Fyzická geografie Evropy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1999, 348 s. ISBN 8020006842. info
- Teaching methods
- The basic Teaching methods are lectures, supplemented about contemporary methods such example e-learning. The course consists also homeworks of students to the actual subjects.
- Assessment methods
- Lectures are in the czech language. The test termination of this course is written tests from the Physical Geography and oral examination from Human geography of Europe.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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