PřF:Z0109 Seminar of physical geography - Course Information
Z0109 Seminar of physical geography
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Vladimír Herber, CSc. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- RNDr. Vladimír Herber, CSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Vladimír Herber, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- Z0109/01: Wed 9:00–10:50 Z4,02028, V. Herber
- Prerequisites
- Z0026p Physical geography && KREDITY_MIN ( 40 )
Successful completion of basic course Z0026p, Z0026c Physical Geography - 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 19/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The main learning outcomes for the successful student will be:
a) knowledge and understanding of core material in Physical Geography;
b) appreciation of the dynamic and research-based nature of the discipline;
c) ability to use geographical evidence to explain the physical environment.
d) Physical Geography coursework – essay writing and oral presentation - Learning outcomes
- Completing the subject student:
a) extend the knowledge, knowledge and skills of selected topics of physical geography
b) will be able to use better and more systematically the professional literature and other sources in the study
c) will be able to elaborate, present and defend the seminar work on physico-geographic topic - Syllabus
- Selected topics as related to various aspects of physical environments and patterns of human occupancy.
- Part I
- 1. The nature of Physical Geography.
- 2. Global Systems
- 3. Natural resources
- 4. Hydrosphere – oceans, rivers, lakes, and ice formations on Earth
- 5. Highest Mountains in the world
- 6. Volcanoes and volcanic processes
- 7. Deserts – types, processes, desert regions, environmental problems
- 8. Environmental Change, Processes and Landscapes
- Part II
- Physical geography coursework – essay writing and oral presentation
- Literature
- required literature
- DEMEK, Jaromír, Evžen QUITT and Jaroslav RAUŠER. Úvod do obecné fyzické geografie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1976, 400 s. info
- recommended literature
- Introduction to physical geography and the environment. Edited by Joseph Holden. Harlow: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005, xxvi, 664. ISBN 0131217615. info
- WHITE, I. D., D. N. MOTTERSHEAD and S. J. HARRISON. Environmental systems :an introductory text. Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1984, i-xv, 495. ISBN 0-04-551065-2. info
- not specified
- STRAHLER, Alan H. and Arthur Newell STRAHLER. Introducing physical geography. 4th ed. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley, 2006, xxv, 728. ISBN 047167950X. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, class discussion, physical geography coursework – essay writing and oral presentation.
- Assessment methods
- Final essay, and final colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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