Ze0020 Geography of Population and Settlements

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Prerequisites
A prerequisite for visiting of course is knowledge of concepts of demography and social geography.
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 Aim of Course: On the basis of the general recognition of geography of population and settlement, its factography and its methods - to gain 1) the ability of aimed acquiring of new concrete knowledge of the dealing theme and 2) the ability of synthesis of the said knowledge within the complex framework of developmental relationship of partial geographical spheres - with emphasis on the problem of didactics transformation. At the end of course students should be albe to use informations in regional geography, interpret of basic informations in structure of people.
Syllabus
  • The Fundamental Themes of Course:
  • 1. Geography of population and settlements as scientific discipline
  • 2. Geograpgical aspects of the rise, the forming and the spreading of mankind and human races
  • 3. The forms of the spatial organization of population
  • 4. Characteristics of population
  • a) quantitative (number, density of population)
  • b) structural (biological, cultural, economic, legal and political
  • c) dynamical (natural movement, mechanical movement, social movement)
  • 5. Geographical aspects of population problems
  • 6. Geographical aspects of the rise, the forming and the spreading of habitation
  • 7. The types of settlements
  • 8. The structure and systems of settlements
  • 9. Urbanization
  • 10. Geography of cities - historical development, tips of cities.
  • 11. Rural geography - tips of villages, section plans of rural area.
Literature
    required literature
  • KUNC, Josef, Václav TOUŠEK, Jiří VYSTOUPIL, Petr DANĚK, Pavel KLAPKA, Ondřej MULÍČEK, Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Michal VANČURA, Antonín VĚŽNÍK, Milan VITURKA and Petr TONEV. Ekonomická a sociální geografie (Economic and social geography). 1. vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2008, 411 pp. učebnice vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4. info
  • ŠOTKOVSKÝ, Ivan. Úvod do studia demografie. 1. vyd. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 1996, 158 s. ISBN 80-7078-327-3. info
  • CHALUPA, Petr and Zdeňka TARABOVÁ. Vybrané kapitoly z demografie : (Pro semináře a cvičení). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1991, 61 s., tab. ISBN 80-210-0343-X. info
    recommended literature
  • BAŠOVSKÝ, Oliver and Jozef MLÁDEK. Geografia obyvatel'stva a sídiel. 2. nezm. vyd. Bratislava: Universita Komenského, 1989, 221 s. ISBN 80-223-0026-8. info
  • SHORT, John Rennie. Human settlement (Orig.) : Lidská sídla. info
Teaching methods
The course is going trought the lectures (ever week) from basic demographical terminology.
Assessment methods
Lecture with a seminar. Examination - oral.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: Podmínkou připuštění k ukončení předmětu je získání zápočtu ze Ze2BP_NSS5
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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