Human Geography Research of Czechia I - MZ300E011

• Title: Human Geography Research of Czechia I
• Czech title: Výzkum sociální geografie v Česku I
• Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. RNDr. Dušan Drbohlav, CSc.; RNDr. Libor Jelen, Ph.D.; doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.; RNDr. Zdeněk Kučera, Ph.D.; Ivana Kulhánová, Ph.D.; doc. RNDr. Viktor Květoň, Ph.D.; prof. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D.; RNDr. Radim Perlín, Ph.D.; prof. RNDr. Luděk Sýkora, Ph.D.; RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D.

Annotation

Annotation:
This course covers selected topics from the human geography of Czechia and presents an introduction of research teams activities at Dep. of Social Geography and Regional Development (see also https://www.natur.cuni.cz/geography/department-of-social-geography-and-regional-development/research/research-teams.
Its introductory part will provide a historical background and the discussion of the position of Czechia within Europe. Then, the course will cover the following topics: urban and regional systems, internal and international migration, economic geography (focused mostly on agriculture and the service sector, including tourism),
urban geography, including the post-communist urban transition of Prague, health geography and elections in Czechia. Each student will be required to select a supervisor (according to his field of interest), prepare a three-page review of three professional articles and a 15-page paper on a selected topic under the tutorship of
participant teachers with the presentation (.ppt) followed . Based on the paper, each student will give a ten minute Power Point presentation during the final class. Students are required to attend at least eight lectures and the final class with a presentation.

Last update: Vágner Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.09.2024)

Requirements to the exam

Each student will be required to select a supervisor by 14 October (according to his field of interest), prepare a three-page review of three professional articles (by 18 November) and a 15-page paper on a selected topic under the tutorship of participant teachers (by 6 January) with the presentation (.ppt) followed 14 (21) January. Based on the paper, each student will give a ten minute Power Point presentation during the final class. Students are required to attend at least eight lectures and the final class with a presentation.

Last update: Vágner Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.09.2024)

Syllabus

MZ300E011   Human Geography Research in Czechia I

Course for ERASMUS students: winter term 2023–2024; 7 ECTS credits

M (Velká mineralogická room), Albertov 6, 2nd floor (Geology) – just almost opposite( right)  to the main staircase

Tuesdays (October 1^th 2023 – January 23^th 2024) 13:10-14:45

RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D. ([e-mail])

doc. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D. ([e-mail])

Time schedule of lectures

1. 10. 2024 Introduction to the course (Jiří Vágner, Martin Ouředníček)

 

8. 10. 2024) Historical and Cultural Geography (Zdeněk Kučera)

 

15. 10. 2024 Regional and Political Geography (Libor Jelen)

 

22. 10. 2024 Agriculture and Rural Space of Czechia (Radim Perlín)

 

29. 10. 2024 Urbanisation and Suburbanisation Processes in Czechia (Martin Ouředníček)

 

5. 11. 2024 Post-communist City: Changes in the Spatial Structure of Prague (Luděk  

                   Sýkora)

 

12. 11. 2024 Health Geography of Czechia (Ivana Kulhánová)

 

19. 11. 2024 Tourism and Second Homes in Czechia (Jiří Vágner)

 

26.11.2024 Geography of Elections (Tomáš Kostelecký)

 

3. 12. 2024 Competitiveness and regional development in Czechia: perspective of contemporary approaches in economic geography (Viktor Květoň)

 

10.12.2024 Migration Geography (Dušan Drbohlav)

 

14. 1. 2025 + 21. 1. 2025 Presentations of essays and discussion (Jiří Vágner, Martin Ouředníček et al.)

Last update: Vágner Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.09.2024)