ENSb1322 Carpathian Field Trip

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Michal Medek (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Hendrychová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
TYP_STUDIA(B)
• Interest in one of the following fields: conservation, visitor management, heritage interpretation, environmental education. The more, the better. • Fluency in English, including conservation terminology. • Residency in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia or Ukraine. • Physical ability for hiking in the mountains (2000 m. altitudes). • Suitable gear for hiking in the high mountains including rainy and windy conditions.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 7 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 7/7, only registered: 0/7, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/7
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Abstract
The purpose of the field trip is to compare approaches to visitor management with particular focus on soft methods of visitor management through education and natural heritage interpretation.
Learning outcomes
Students will visit 5 Carpathian national parks (IUCN cat. 2) and 1protected landscape area (IUCN cat. 5). The areas were chosen in order to demonstrate different challenges of tourism for conservation and variety of approaches to cope them. Detailed itinerary is below. Students meet with representatives of the national parks / PLAs and receive lectures on heritage interpretation during the field trip. Student teams will also suggest educational activities for a wetland nature reserve and present them to local conservationists. Within following part of this project, Ukrainian students will be suggesting educational measures for the national parks in the Zakarpattia region. Students from other countries will be encouraged to join their teams and compete for a grant to put the measures into real life.
Key topics
Dates 20th - 26th June 2025 Itinerary of the field trip is available at https://bit.ly/V4F_25_Field_Trip Cost 80€ The trip is supported by the Visegrad Fund through the project Shifting towards Ecotourism in Protected Areas through Heritage Interpretation.
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
Field excursion, teamwork delivering a project.
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Taking part in the field trip start to finish.
Alternate completion
Not possible.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught in blocks.
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