Contemporary Human Geography in Czechia I - MZ300E008

• Title: Contemporary Human Geography in Czechia I
• Czech title: Současná sociální geografie v Česku I
• Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2021 to 2021
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 10
• 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

Last update: RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D. (29.09.2021)

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.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D. (29.09.2021)

Each student will be required to select a supervisor by 19 October (according to his field of interest), prepare a three-page review of three professional articles (by 23 November) and a 15-page paper on a selected topic under the tutorship of participant teachers (by 4 January) with the presentation (.ppt) followed 11 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.

Syllabus

Last update: RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D. (05.10.2021)

MZ300E008   Contemporary Human Geography of Czechia I

Course for ERASMUS students: winter term 2021–2022; 10 ECTS credits

LR room, Albertov 6, 3rd floor

Tuesdays (October 5^th 2021 – January 21^nd 2022) 10:40-12:15

RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D. ([e-mail])

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

 

Annotation:

This course covers selected topics from the human geography of Czechia and presents an introduction of research teams activities at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (see also https://www.natur.cuni.cz/geography/department-of-social-geography-and-regional-development/research/research-teams.

The 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 by 19 October (according to his/her field of interest), prepare a three-page review of three professional articles (by 23 November) and a 15-page paper on a selected topic under the tutorship of participant teachers (by 4 January) with the presentation (.ppt) followed 11 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.

 

Time schedule of lectures

1

5. 10. 2021 Introduction to the course (Jiří Vágner, Martin Ouředníček)

2

12. 10. 2021 Regional and Political Geography (Libor Jelen)

3

19. 10. 2021 Historical and Cultural Geography (Zdeněk Kučera)

4

26. 10. 2021 International Migration and Czechia in European Context (Dušan Drbohlav)

5

2. 11. 2021 Post-communist City: Changes in the Spatial Structure of Prague (Luděk Sýkora)

6

9. 11. 2021 Urbanisation and Suburbanisation Processes in Czechia (Martin Ouředníček)

7

16. 11. 2021 Agriculture and Rural Space of Czechia (Radim Perlín)

8

23. 11. 2021 Competitiveness and regional development in Czechia: perspective of contemporary approaches in economic geography (Viktor Květoň)

9

30. 11. 2021 Tourism in Czechia and Urban Tourism in Prague (Jiří Vágner, Tomáš Krajňák, Veronica Marianovská)

10

7. 12. 2021 Health Geography of Czechia (Ivana Kulhánová)

11

14. 12. 2021 Geography of Elections (Tomáš Kostelecký)

12

11. 1. 2022 Presentations of essays and discussion (Jiří Vágner, Martin Ouředníček et al.)