Course: Socio-economic Geography

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Course title Socio-economic Geography
Course code USSV/CSGE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Maštálka Martin, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Basic conceptions and connection of social-economic geography. Geography of inhabitants (development of inhabitants and prognosis of its development, location of inhabitants, dynamism of inhabitants, structure of inhabitants). Geography of seats (rural settlement, urban settlement, resident system). Geography of industry (main factors of dislocation of industry, historical development, dislocation of world industry). Geography of agriculture (historical development, dislocation of contemporary agriculture production - plant, animal; geographical dislocation world fishery and forestry). Geography of transport (historical development, branch of transport, world dislocation of transport, contemporary trends of world transport) Geography of tourism (travel industry) - (historical development, localized, selected and realization factors of tourism, geography of world travel industry). Universal features of geography of world economy, rice and development of economy. Central-peripheral system of the world and world geo-politic situation. Integrative, disintegrative processes and processes of globalization in contemporary world.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
  • Writing a seminar paper - 4 hours per semester
  • Contact teaching - 6 hours per semester
  • Preparation of a presentation (report) - 4 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Target of subject social-economic geography is acquaint of students with basic aspects of world economy, phenomenon, processes of fundamental themes of study subject.
Student, who pass of subject successful, know: describe and explain regularities and connections in reality of economy system and at the same time work with connections of relationships between nature and society inclusive of economical processes with relative on get through themes given subject (geography of inhabitants, geography of seats, geography of agriculture, geography of industry, geography of transport and a geography of tourism). Student, who pass of subject successful, can: using of knowledge, analysis and synthesis of branch of social-economic geography, next using of knowledge, analysis and synthesis of branch of geography of world economy; orientate on social-economic problematics from local to global scale and interpretation of geographical aspects in system of world economy in geographical and economy and social context. Student, who pass of subject, is able: clearly and convincingly inform experts and laymen information on character expert problems of socio-economic geography and personal opinion on this issues.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment, Work-related product analysis

Recommended literature
  • BIČÍK, I. a kol. Hospodářský zeměpis. Globální geografické aspekty světového hospodářství. Praha: Česká geografická společnost, 2003.
  • Brychtová Š, Fňukal M. Socioekonomická geografie I. díl, Pardubice: FES UPa, 2006.
  • Fňukal, M., Brychtová, Š., Halas, M. Základy humánní geografie. Olomouc, 2014.
  • Jehlička, P., Tomeš, J., Daněk, P. Stát, prostor, politika.. 2000.
  • Maryáš, Jaroslav. Ekonomická geografie I. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2001. ISBN 80-210-2595-6.
  • Toušek, V., Vystoupil, J. a kol. Ekonomická a sociální geografie, nakl. Aleš Čeněk, 2008..
  • Wood, A. Economic geography, GB: ROUTLEDGE, 2010..


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