PdF:Ze2BP_GOP3 Geogr. of Populat. & Settlem. - Course Information
Ze2BP_GOP3 Geography of Population and Settlements
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education - Prerequisites
- A prerequisite for visiting of course is knowledge of concepts of demography and social geography.
- 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
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography (programme PdF, M-ZS4)
- Course objectives
- The Aim of Tuition: On the basis of the general recognition of geography of population and settlement, its factography and its methods - to gain 1) the ability of aimed acquiring of new concrete knowledge of the dealing theme and 2) the ability of synthesis of the said knowledge within the complex framework of developmental relationship of partial geographical spheres - with emphasis on the problem of didactics transformation. At the end of course students should be albe to use informations in regional geography, interpret of basic informations in structure of people.
- Syllabus
- The Fundamental Themes of Lectures:
- 1. Geography of population and settlements as scientific discipline
- 2. Geograpgical aspects of the rise, the forming and the spreading of mankind and human races
- 3. The forms of the spatial organization of population
- 4. Characteristics of population
- a) quantitative (number, density of population)
- b) structural (biological, cultural, economic, legal and political
- c) dynamical (natural movement, mechanical movement, social movement)
- 5. Geographical aspects of population problems
- 6. Geographical aspects of the rise, the forming and the spreading of habitation
- 7. The types of settlements
- 8. The structure and systems of settlements
- 9. Urbanization
- 10. Geography of cities - historical development, tips of cities.
- 11. Rural geography - tips of villages, section plans of rural area.
- Literature
- CHALUPA, Petr and Zdeňka TARABOVÁ. Vybrané kapitoly z demografie : (pro semináře a cvičení). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1991, 61 s. ISBN 802100343X. info
- CHALUPA, Petr and Zdeňka TARABOVÁ. Přehled geografie obyvatelstva, demografie a geografie sídel : učební texty pro posluchače učitelského studia geografie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986, 162 s. info
- CHALUPA, Petr and Zdeňka TARABOVÁ. Základy geografie obyvatelstva, demografie a geografie sídel. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1983, 159 s. URL info
- SHORT, John Rennie. Human settlement (Orig.) : Lidská sídla. info
- BAŠOVSKÝ, Oliver and Jozef MLÁDEK. Geografia obyvatel'stva a sídiel. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Universita Komenského, 1985, 221 s. 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
- Teaching methods
- The course is going trought the lectures (ever week) from basic demographical terminology.
- Assessment methods
- The course is teaching 2 hours per week. Examination have 2 parts - 2 written tests in semestr and oral from literature and lectures. Written tests from demografical and settlements terms. Knowledge of states and capital cities in world.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Information on completion of the course: Podmínkou připuštění k ukončení předmětu je získání zápočtu ze Ze2BP_GOS3
Course is no more offered.
The course is taught: every week.
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