PřF:ZD331 Geographical Thought - Course Information
ZD331 Geographical Thought
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Alois Hynek, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Václav Toušek, CSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Alois Hynek, CSc. - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PROGRAM(D-GR4)
- 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
- Regional Geography and Regional Planning (Eng.) (programme PřF, D-GR4) (2)
- Regional Geography and Regional Planning (programme PřF, D-GR4) (2)
- Course objectives
- - to understand the role of contemporary geographical thought in socially oriented research - evaluate geographical knowledge production with respect to epistemology and social practice - differentiate changing proportion among experience, theory and application in the process of general ´geographization´ of other branches of science - design new topic geographies from local/glocal, regional and global challenges
- Syllabus
- 1. Geography, phislosophy and social theory 2. Existentialism, phenomenology and humanistic geography 3. Radical and marxist geography, not marxism but Marx 4. Structuralism, structuration, realism and locality debate 5. Poststructuralism, post-modernism, postmodernity/late modernity 6. Feminist theory and gender geography
- Teaching methods
- presentations, individual projects, classroom debate, lectures
- Assessment methods
- chapter for dissertation, translation ( 5 pages), presentation dissertation ....all in English language
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every other week.
General note: částečně v angličtině.
Information on course enrolment limitations: pro studenty doktorského studijní programu
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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