Ze2MP_AOP0 Regional Geography of Australia, Oceania and Polar Regions

Faculty of Education
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Dana Hübelová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Darina Mísařová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Dana Hübelová, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Timetable
Tue 9:45–10:30 učebna 5a
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
Literature
  • CHALUPA, Petr and Dana HÜBELOVÁ. Amerika a Austrálie-cvičení z regionální geografie. Brno: Paido, 2004, 87 pp. ISBN 80-7315-061-1. info
  • LIŠČÁK, Vladimír and Pavel FOJTÍK. Státy a území světa. 2. aktualiz., přeprac. a ro. Praha: Libri, 1998, 1095 s. ISBN 80-85983-53-2. info
  • Austrálie : multimediální učebnice geografie [CD-ROM] : Multimediální učebnice geografie : Austrálie (Variant.). [Praha]: MEDIA trade, 1997, 1 zvukový. info
  • ŠINDLER, Petr and Vladimír BAAR. Regionální geografie světadílů a oceánů. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Pedagogická fakulta v Ostravě, 1988, 309 s. info
  • BRINKE, Josef. Austrálie a Oceánie. 3. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1987, 295 s. URL info
  • BRINKE, Josef. Austrálie. 1. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 1973, 152 s. URL info
Assessment methods
The lessons are realized by the form of lectures and discussions. To complete this course successfully, students are supposed to actively participate in final colloquium (discussion and conversation). Students are expected to: 1) to differentiate different kinds of dimensions of natural and relevant economic and social parameters 2) to localize factual information and geographical phenomena in maps Each student is given a topic on which to write an essay. The essay is obligatory to complete this course successfully. The essay should prove the ability to assemble the partial component information and factual located information and put them into context.
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 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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