| Course Unit Code | 118-0338/06 |
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| Number of ECTS Credits Allocated | 4 ECTS credits |
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| Type of Course Unit * | Compulsory |
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| Level of Course Unit * | First Cycle |
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| Year of Study * | Second Year |
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| Semester when the Course Unit is delivered | Summer Semester |
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
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| Language of Instruction | Czech |
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| Prerequisites and Co-Requisites | Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) | Personal ID | Name |
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| S1O70 | RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D. |
| Summary |
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| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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The course will equip students with the necessary knowledge of political
geography, population geography, economic geography and regional geography
including the current picture of particular states of the world, and, also,
with the remarkable integration efforts. The aim of this subject is to exceed
the range of the knowledge about social and economic weight of macroregions of
the world and the most development countries.The economic, social and regional
geography create the basic orientation for evaluation of economic development
from the perspective of the formation of new spatial structures. |
| Course Contents |
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1. Development of science, basic theoretical knowledge. Object and subject of interest, contribution of Czech and foreign personalities to the development of geographical sciences. Their functions, approaches, directions.
2. General features of the world economy geography. Position of economic geography in the system of sciences, system approaches and economic landscape, spatial processes in the background of economic relations.
3. Economic relations and landscape sphere. Economy and environment, characteristics of contemporary economic development, economic process and spatial arrangement.
4. Spatial order and meaning of the state. The single world market and the effects of spatial organization, the state system and its economic context, the state as a political-economic system.
5. Regional level of spatial order. Conception of region and regional systems, regionalization and its influence on economic relations, evaluation of regions, their differentiation, regional development and regional policy. From localization theories to the principles of regionalism.
6. Analysis of human resources in geographical view. World population development. Population size issues, natural and migration currencies.
7. Distribution and selected features of the world population. Age distribution of population and differences in aging process. Other significant structural characteristics of the world population.
8. Models of division of the world according to development. Central-peripheral model of the world. The emergence and development of centers of the world economy. Basic characteristics of the core economies of the contemporary world.
9. Europe as an economically strong complex interconnected space. Differences in economic levels of European states. Differences in social environment. Signs of economic cooperation in Europe.
10. Position of the Czech Republic in the World Economy. Natural, economic and social characteristics of the Czech Republic. International position of the Czech Republic and its integration tendencies.
11. Geography of world agriculture. Basic functions, needs and characteristics of agricultural production, crop and livestock production.
12. Geography of industry, industrial structure and development of industrial complexes. Industrialization, the way of progress? Development of the second sector of national economy in the world and in our country.
13. World economic order and integration processes. The importance and role of the UN. Possibilities of economic cooperation in the world. The most important integration efforts in the world.
14. Geospatial view of world economy and possibilities of measuring level of maturity.
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
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| Required Reading: |
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1. FELLMANN, J. D., M. D. Bjelland, A. Getis a J. Getis. Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities. 11th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN 978-0-07-352285-2.
2. RUBENSTEIN, James, M. An Introduction to human geography: the culture landscape. 10th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, 2011. ISBN 978-0-321-67735-8.
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1. Šotkovský, Ivan. Socioekonomická geografie (prostředí lidské aktivity). Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2012. ISBN 978-80-2č8-2624-0.
2. Šotkovský, Ivan. Hospodářská geografie. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita
Ostrava, 2002. ISBN: 80-248-0066-7 |
| Recommended Reading: |
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1. GLASSNER, Martin, I. Political Geography. 3rd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN 0-471-35266-7.
2. HAGGETT, Peter. Geography: A Global Synthesis. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2001. ISBN 0-582-32030-5. |
1. HRALA, Václav a kol. Geografie světového hospodářství (Vybrané kapitoly). Praha: VŠE, 2005. ISBN 80-245-0857-5.
2. TOUŠEK, Václav a kol. Ekonomická a sociální geografie. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7380-1144. |
| Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Lectures |
| Assesment methods and criteria |
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| Task Title | Task Type | Maximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks) | Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing |
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| Credit | Credit | 85 (85) | 85 |
| Zápočtový test | Written test | 50 | 50 |
| Seminární práce v Excelu | Semestral project | 35 | 35 |