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Introduction to Social Geography - MZ340P26
Title: Základy sociální geografie
Czech title: Základy sociální geografie
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Viktor Květoň, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D.
RNDr. Jiří-Jakub Zevl, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The course is focused on basic topics and problems of social and economic geography. Core concepts, processes and trends in social and economic geography are discussed. The lecture is based on the presentation of key general trends, elaboration of the topic on a specific example in a selected region and generalisation of trends for typologically or regionally related territories, regions, places. Different geographic scales of monitoring from global, regional to local levels are taken into account. Graduates use selected terminology with understanding, can process and interpret data and find connections between them, critically assess data sources and evaluation results, explain the context of problems of socio-economic and socio-cultural nature at different geographical scale levels.

Learning outcomes:
The graduate of the course uses selected terminology with understanding, is able to process and interpret demographic, social and economic data and spatial connections between them, critically assess data sources and evaluation results. Based on the knowledge gained from the course, the student is able to explain the connections between problems of a socio-economic and socio-cultural nature at various geographic scales, is able to navigate on settlement maps.
Last update: Ouředníček Martin, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2025)
Literature -

Required literature:

COE, N., KELLY, P., YEUNG, H. W. C. (2013): Economic geography: a contemporary introduction. 2nd ed. Hoboken, N. J: Wiley-Blackwell, 576 pp.

GREGORY, D., JOHNSTON, R. J., PRATT, G., WATTS, M., WHATMORE, S. (2009): The dictionary of human geography. 5th ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1052 pp.

HAGGETT, P. (1983): Geography: A Modern Synthesis. 3rd rev. ed. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 670 pp.

OUŘEDNÍČEK, M., TEMELOVÁ, J., POSPÍŠILOVÁ, L. eds. (2011): Atlas of socio-spatial differentiation of the Czech Republic. Praha: Karolinum, 137 pp.

TOUŠEK, V., KUNC, J., VYSTOUPIL, J. a kol. (2008): Ekonomická a sociální geografie. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 411 pp.

Školní atlas dnešního světa. Terra.

Školní atlas světa. Kartografie.

 

Suggested readings:

HRNČIAROVÁ, T., MACKOVČIN, P., ZVARA et al. (2009): Landscape Atlas of the Czech Republic. Praha a Průhonice: MŽP ČR, Výzkumný ústav Silva Taroucy pro krajinu a okrasné zahradnictví, 331 pp.

PAVLÍK, Z., ŠUBRTOVÁ, A., RYCHTAŘÍKOVÁ, J. (1986): Základy demografie. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 732 pp.

Journals: Geografické rozhledy, National Geographic.

www.atlasobyvatelstva.cz

Last update: Ouředníček Martin, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Examination requirements (granted by Prof. Ouředníček, Assoc. Prof. Květoň)

Passing the test (open and closed questions based on presentations from lectures and required literature)

Seminars: active attendance of seminars (max. 1 absence) and elaboration of seminar paper (of appropriate quality). 

Last update: Ouředníček Martin, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Development and position of socio-economic geography discipline

2. Geographical position and location

3. Methods of socio-economic geography

4. Scale, hierarchy, core-periphery

5. Regional differentiation and unevenness

6. Regionalization

7. Current tendencies of economic development

8. Transport, mobility, accessibility

9. Settlement geography

10. Geography of population

11. Migration

12. Local processes and problems

13. Discussion seminar

Last update: Ouředníček Martin, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2025)
 
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