GEOGRAPHY M - Z
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
GRAZIA ARENA
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, the course aims to develop:
knowledge and understanding of the main cultural and economic themes of the contemporany and globalized world, such as, for example, the fundamental role of human work in the creation of different landscapes, the wealth of cultural values, economic activities and political orders present in the world;
- the ability to recognize and analyze the topics studied using various tools, such as photographic images, satellite images and graphics;
- the ability to apply the method of analogies and differences at various geographical scales;
- the ability to develop independent judgment on the knowledge acquired and to make a decisions in a responsible and conscious way;
- the ability to use the knowledge acquired to document, report and effectively communicate particular aspects of landscapes related to the issues of decay, conservation and enhancement;
- the ability to put at the service of the community the knowledge and values acquired by concretizing the territorial education and the “public geography”.
Course Structure
The course will take
place through traditional classroom lectures, in which will be used power point
prepared by the lecturer.
If the teaching is given in a mixed or
remote mode, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated
may be introduced, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported
in the syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
The student must be able to locate places
and phenomena on an atlas and must possess basic notions of geography relating
to the environmental and anthropic context.
Detailed Course Content
Theories, concepts and tools of human geography; relationships between the environment, society
and places
; themes and problems on
globalization; themes and problems on cities and urban spaces; migratory movements; population; pyramids of the age; economic sectors: agriculture, industry,
tertiary; sustenible development; territorial education; landscapes and cultural heritages; Global migratory mobility with a focus on the Mediterranean
basin.
Textbook Information
- ALYSON
G., DEMATTEIS G., LANZA C., Geografia
umana. Un approccio visuale, UTET,
2016, pp. 423.
- WIHTOL DE WENDEN C., Le nuove migrazioni, Luoghi, uomini, politiche,
ediz. italiana a cura di A. Riggio, R.G. Maury, Bologna, Pàtron, 2016, pp.
166.
Course Planning
| | Subjects | Text References |
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| 1 | BASIC CONCEPTS: SPACE-PLACE - ENVIRONMENT - TERRITORY - MAPPING SCALE -. GEOGRAPHY TOOLS - ECOSYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT - ENERGY RESOURCES - POPULATION: BASIC CONCEPTS - MIGRATIONS - LANGUAGES AND RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD - DEVELOPMENT THEORIES - AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY, SERVICES - INDUSTRY IN P.V.S. - GLOBALIZATION - GLOCALIZATION - THE CITY: BASIC NOTIONS - THEORETICAL MODELS OF VON THUNEN; WEBER; CHRISTALLER. |
ALYSON
G., DEMATTEIS G., LANZA C., Geografia
umana. Un approccio visuale, UTET,
2016, pp. 423.
|
| 2 | MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS IN HISTORY - THE
FRONTIER AND THE FACTORS OF SPATIAL MOBILITY - NORTH-SOUTH MIGRATIONS - THE
EUROPEAN CASE - DIASPORE - SOUTH-SOUTH MIGRATIONS - NORTH-NORTH MIGRATIONS |
WIHTOL DE WENDEN C., Le nuove migrazioni, Luoghi, uomini, politiche,
ediz. italiana a cura di A. Riggio, R.G. Maury, Bologna, Pàtron, 2016, pp.
166.
|
Learning Assessment
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND ITS EVOLUTION - THE
CONCEPTS OF: SPACE - PLACE - ENVIRONMENT - TERRITORY - LANDSCAPE. GEOGRAPHY
TOOLS - ENERGY RESOURCES - ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION - POPULATION AND
MIGRATIONS - LANGUAGES AND RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD - THEORIES OF ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT - AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY, SERVICES - INDUSTRY IN THE REST OF THE
WORLD - TRANSPORT AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS - GLOBALIZATION - GLOBAL AND LOCAL - THE
CITY: STRUCTURE AND FORMS OF EXPANSION - LA GENTRIFICATION - SMART CITY.
MIGRATORY MOBILITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
