Ze2MK_AOS0 Regional Geography of Australia and Polar Areas

Faculty of Education
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.7. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of physical and socio-economic geography is assumed.
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 the subject is to give an idea of America and Australia as a functioning system of regional units and different dimensions of a hierarchical classification based on natural and corresponding economic and social parameters. Students have to compose information, factual and localized information into their context.
Syllabus
  • AMERICA
  • 1. Identifying and defining of the region
  • 2. Physical-geographical characteristics
  • 3. Social-geogrphical characteristics
  • 4. Regionalisation of the areas and complex characteristics of subregions and countries: Greenland, St. Pierre et Miquelon, Canada; USA; Mexico; Central America; Carribean area, Bermudas; Brasilia; French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela; Columbia, Equador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay; Chile, Argentina, Uruguay; Falklands, South Georgia a South Sandwich. Islands.
  • AUSTRALIA
  • 1. Physical-geographical characteristics
  • 2. Social-geogrphical characteristics
  • POLAR AREAS
  • 1. Arctic
  • 2. Antarctica
Literature
  • Regionální geografie Ameriky pro studenty učitelství zeměpisu pro ZŠ http://www.pf.jcu.cz/stru/katedry/z/vyuka/reg-ucebnice/
  • Geografie Latinské Ameriky: http://rgla.upol.cz/
  • BIČÍK, Ivan. Regionální zeměpis :učebnice zeměpisu pro střední školy. 2. upr. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství České geografické společnosti, 1998, 47 s. ISBN 80-86034-19-4. info
  • BAAR, Vladimír. Anglosaská Severní Amerika. 1. vyd. Ostrava: Ateliér Milata, 1994, 162 s. info
  • BAAR, Vladimír and Petr ŠINDLER. Regionální geografie světadílů a oceánů. 1. vyd. V Ostravě: Pedagogická fakulta v Ostravě, 1989, 231 s. ISBN 8070420162. URL info
  • BAAR, Vladimír and Petr ŠINDLER. Regionální geografie světadílů a oceánů. 1. vyd. V Ostravě: Pedagogická fakulta v Ostravě, 1989, 231 s. ISBN 8070420162. URL info
Teaching methods
Teoretical preparation, group project, presentation of requested work.
Assessment methods
Elaboration of requested work and presentation, oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin konzultací.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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