PřF:Z1107 New Themes in Human Geography - Course Information
Z1107 New Themes in Human Geography
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marie Zlámalová (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 16:00–16:50 Z5,02004
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PROGRAM ( N - GK )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Applied Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Regional Geography and Regional Planning (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography and Regional Development (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Course objectives
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to explore selected general issues of social and economic development; to provide wider context enabling better understanding of actual human geography themes; to interlink contemporary human geography research with other disciplines of social science.
- Syllabus
- 1. Development of human geography, overview of approaches; 2. Knowledge in human geography (postmodernism, poststructuralism); 3. Modernity, post-modernity and structuration theory; 3. Globalization; 4. Post-industrialism, Daniel Bell; 6. Consumption as a geographic phenomena; 7. Media and space
- Literature
- Sociology (Orig.) : Sociologie [Giddens, 1999]. info
- GIDDENS, A. (2003): Důsledky modernity. Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha, 200 s.
- HARRINGTON, Austin. Moderní sociální teorie : základní témata a myšlenkové proudy. Translated by Hana Antonínová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2006, 495 s. ISBN 8073670933. info
- A companion to economic geography. Edited by Eric Sheppard - Trevor Barnes. 1st ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, xv, 536 s. ISBN 0-631-21223-X. info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching methods - lectures, class discussion, group projects, homeworks, reading.
- Assessment methods
- Colloquium (oral) tests ability to take an attitude to actual issues of human geography.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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