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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Human Geography

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 118-0301/06
Abbreviation SCEGEO
Course title Human Geography
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Development of Human Geography (Basic notes and natures of human geography).

2. Introduction to the Theory and Methodology in Human Geography (Techniques and methods).

3. Introduction to the Therory of Spatial (Geographical) Systems.

4. Changes on the political and economic world map (State and his Basic Signs and Typology).

5. Introduction to Population geography (Development of the World Population)

6. The geography of the world economy (Agricultural and Industrial Process).

7. Core - periphery System of the World.

8. The Czech Republic and geographic background (Social and Economic Characteristics of the State).

9. World economy in geospatial context.

Literature

1. KNOX, P. L., AGNEW, J., MCCARTHY, L. The Geography of the World Economy. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-1444184709 .

Advised literature

1. FELLMANN, J. D., M. D. BJELLAND, A. GETIS and J. GETIS. Human Geography: Land-scapes of Human Activities. 12th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2013. ISBN-13: 978-0078021466 .

2. COE, Neil,‎ KELLY, Philip, YEUNG, Henry W. C. Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction. 2nd ed., New York, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2013. 576 s. ISBN 978-0-4709-4338-0 .