PřF:Z8116 Theoretical cartography - Course Information
Z8116 Theoretical cartography
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Karel Staněk, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Karel Staněk, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 11:00–12:50 Z2,01032
- 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.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Geographical Cartography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course, students should be able to: understand the basic problems of theoretical cartography, cartographic paradigmes above all semiotic, cognitive and communicative and deal also with feedback of practice and creative appliances to cartographic theory.
- Syllabus
- 1. Metacartography. 2. Development of cartographic paradigmes. 3. Actual trends incartographic theory. 4. Visual perception and interpretation of maps. 5. Cognitive model of cartography. 6. Theory of cartographic communication. 7. Relation between reality and cartographic symbols. 8. Theory of map using. 9. Cartographic semiotics and linguistics. 10. Cartography as a creative arts. 11. Cartographic profession. 12. Cartography and subserviences of cartographic productions. 13. Cartography and scientific vizualization.
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- credit proof and oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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