ZeD005 Applied Geography

Faculty of Education
autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Jaromír Kolejka, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Jaromír Kolejka, CSc.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
Graduation in partial geographic dosciplines.
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 subject is conceived as a follow-up course for students who successfully completed the teaching of partial (analytical) physical and human geographic disciplines during the bachelor study, respectively. The aim of the course is to teach students to effectively apply geographic knowledge and skills in solving problems and problems of practical life. Students will be introduced to the term of the purposeful evaluation of the territory, issues of positive and negative search, landscape and spatial planning, use of simple and more complicated tools of multidisciplinary search and evaluation applicable to schools of all levels. Basic inquiry procedures in an urbanized environment will be presented. Learning outcomes will help students formulate attractive lessons in their future workplaces and present them as important knowledge for the needs of everyday life.
Learning outcomes
The student acquainted with specific examples of the use of geographical knowledge and skills in solving the selected set of planning and design tasks in landscape, ways of solving specific environmental problems on the basis of publicly available data and processing technologies. He/she is capable of similar solutions in other territories.
Syllabus
  • 1. Area assessment for specific purposes. 2. Search and exclusion studies. 3. Operative, short and long-term decision-making processes. 4. Search, poll, evaluation and planning procedures.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • 8. SKLENIČKA, P. Základy krajinného plánování. Praha, 2003, 321 s.
  • 3. KUBEŠ, Jan. Vybrané postupy krajinného plánování. České Budějovice: Jihočeká univerzita, 1997, 248 s.
  • 6. NEPOMUCKÝ, P., SALAŠOVÁ, A. Krajinné plánování. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská, 1996, 100 s.
  • 9. ŽIGRAI, F. Krajina a jej využivanie. Vyd. 1. Brno: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Brně, 1983.
Teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, independent work of the student.
Assessment methods
Completed research study, written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2020, recent)
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