GEOGRAPHY (UNIT A)
cod. 13053

Academic year 2010/11
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Geografia (M-GGR/01)
Field
Discipline storiche, storico-artistiche, geografiche, sociologiche e filologiche
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

The course aims at offering the basic knowledge about different research perspectives offered by contemporary human geography. The student, besides basic concepts of the discipline, will acquire the sense of interdisciplinarity of the geographical approach to social sciences, that can be applied in many research topics

Prerequisites

A basic knowledge of the traditional notions of geography (both physical and human) and about the different areas of the planet (from the point of view of both physical and political geography)

Course unit content

The course offers a synthetic overview of the main contemporary research directions in human geography, with a particular focus on the geography of population, the geography of food, political geography, the geography of globalization. The course will also investigate the feeling of attachment to a particulat place and the new complex forms of social and cultural citizenship

Full programme

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Bibliography

J. D. FELLMANN, A. GETIS, J. GETIS, Geografia umana. Cultura società spazio. Italian edition by V. Guarrasi and B. Vecchio, Milan, McGraw-Hill, 2007

Teaching methods

Lectures, use of Power Point presentations, possibly lectures by guest speakers, oal presentations by the students

Assessment methods and criteria

oral exam

Other information

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