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Course: Human Geography I

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Course title Human Geography I
Course code KGE/7SG1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Kraft Stanislav, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Vančura Michal, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Blažek Vojtěch, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. The development of population and population prognosis, 2. Spatial distribution of words population, 3. Dynamics of pouplation spatial mobility, 4. Synthetic evaluation of population dynamics, 5. Population structures sex, age and language, 6. Population stuctures ethnic, social and economic, 7. Complex analysis of particular settlements, mainly urban settlements, 8. Anaylsis of urban areas and settlement systems, 9. Relations between settlement units and landscape, 10. Urban rural relation (urbanization, suburbanization, agglomerations), 11. Analysis and modelling of settlement networks, 12. Formation of urban regional structures, 13. Basic features of population and settlement world and Czech Republic, 14. Application of settlement-geographical methods in the Czech Republic.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
The course serves as a introduction to the study of human geography. The lectures are aimed on the basics of population geography, demography, and settlement geography in a broader human-geographical perspectives. The main issues: spatial distribution of population in the Earth, spatial mobility of population (migration, commuting etc.). The second part is focused on the settlement geography (urban geography, rural settlement geography etc.)
Students will be able to understand the basic processes in the population and settlement geography
Prerequisites
None.

Assessment methods and criteria
Combined exam

Students will make a few seminar projects and essays.
Recommended literature
  • BAŠOVSKÝ, O., BARAN, V. (1999):. Geografia sídel. 1. vyd. Banská Bystrica. UMB. 170 s. (dodá přednášející).
  • BAŠOVSKÝ, O., MLÁDEK, J. (1985):. Geografie obyvateľstva a sídiel. Učební texty. UK, Bratislava, 221 s..
  • CASELLI, G., VALLIN J., WUNSCH G. (2006). Demography: analysis and synthesis I-IV. Elsevier, Amsterdam..
  • ČERMÁK, Z. (2004):. Migrafion aspects of the Suburbanization in the Czech Republic. In: Drbohlav, D. et al. (eds.) Czech geography at he dawn of the milenium. Olomouc, ČGS, s. 319-329..
  • DICKEN, P. (2007):. Global Shift (5th edition). Sage Publications, 599 s..
  • HAMPL, M (2009):. Geography of societal transformation in the Czech republic. DemoArt, Prague, 242 s..
  • KLUFOVÁ, R., POLÁKOVÁ Z (2010):. Demografické metody a analýzy: demografie české a slovenské populace. Wolters Kluwer, Praha, 306 s..
  • KNOX, P. L., MARSTON S.A. (2010):. Places and regions in global context: human geography. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 515 s.
  • KUPKOVÁ, L. (2007):. Suburbanization and urbanization of Prague - the teory of zonal models and reality. In: Dostál, P., Langhammer J. (eds.) Modelling natural environment and society. Prague, Charles University, s. 205-227..
  • MLÁDEK, J. (1992):. Základy geografie obyvatelstva. SPN, Bratislava, 230 s. (scan poskytnutý přednášejícím).
  • OUŘEDNÍČEK, M., ŠPAČKOVÁ, P., NOVÁK, J. (2013):. Sub Urbs: krajina, sídla, lidé. Academia, Praha, 200 s..
  • PACIONE, M. (2009):. Urban geography: a global perspective. Routledge, London, 703 s..
  • PAVLÍK, Z., RYCHTAŘÍKOVÁ, J., ŠUBRTOVÁ, A. (1986):. Základy demografie. Academia, Praha, 732 s.
  • ROUBÍČEK, V. (1997):. Úvod do demografie. Codex Bohemia, Praha, 349 s..
  • ROUBÍČEK, V. (2002):. Základní problémy obecné a ekonomické demografie. VŠE Praha,, 275 s..
  • SÝKORA, L. (2002):. Suburbanizace a její sociální, ekon. a ekologické důsledky. Ústav pro ekopolitiku, Praha. 191 s..


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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE, date of update: 18.04.2024 23:50. Data created for academic year 2023/2024