PřF:ZD331 Geographical Thought - Course Information
ZD331 Geographical Thought
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2015
- 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. Antonín Věžník, CSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Alois Hynek, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PROGRAM ( D - GR4 ) || PROGRAM ( KOS )
- 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
- Multidisciplinary studies at Faculty of Science (programme CST, KOS)
- 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
- Literature
- Key thinkers on space and place. Online. Edited by Phil Hubbard - Rob Kitchin. Second edition. Los Angeles: Sage, 2011. xv, 510. ISBN 9781849201018. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
- Key methods in geography. Online. Edited by N. J. Clifford - Gill Valentine - Shaun French. London: SAGE Publications, 2010. xviii, 545. ISBN 9781412935081. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
- Geographic thought : a praxis perspective. Online. Edited by George L. Henderson - Marvin Waterstone. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2009. xvi, 378. ISBN 9780415471701. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
- Key concepts in geography. Online. Edited by N. J. Clifford. 2nd ed. Los Angeles [i.e. Thousand Oaks, Calif.]: Sage, 2009. xvi, 462. ISBN 9781412930215. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
- The dictionary of human geography. Online. Edited by Derek Gregory. 5th ed. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xvi, 1052. ISBN 9781405132886. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
- Introducing human geographies. Online. Edited by Phil Crang - Mark Goodwin - Paul J. Cloke. 2nd ed. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. xvii, 653. ISBN 034088276X. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
- Practising human geography. Online. Edited by Paul J. Cloke. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 2004. xvi, 416. ISBN 0761973001. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
- 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)
- Study Materials
The course is taught last offered.
The course is taught: every other week.
General note: částečně v angličtině.
Information on course enrolment limitations: pro studenty doktorského studijní programu
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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