Course Details
Geography
Academic Year 2023/24
GE55 course is part of 1 study plan
B-P-C-GK / GI Summer Semester 3rd year
Landscape field its structure and development during time. Basic shapes of Earth’s relief and processes and their modulation. Climate making factors, climate influence on development of relief, soil and vegetation. Weather. Water and its role in physical-geographic field. Karst areas and their development. Foundations of socio economic geography. Geographic incidence on Earth movement. Modern methods of geographic research. Summary regional geography of the world, continents and the Czech Republic. Geographic approach to creations of topographic and theme cartographic works.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Entry Knowledge
Knowledge of geography on level of secondary school.
Aims
Extension of knowledge technical focussed students of natural and social processes having influnce to form landscape. Improvement of region knowledge of sudents.
Students will manage theoretical basics of landscape sphere studies and their single components against background of ecology and environmental protection problems. They will refresh their region-geographic knowledge of single world continents and Czech republic as well in context of contemporary social and political situation.
Students will manage theoretical basics of landscape sphere studies and their single components against background of ecology and environmental protection problems. They will refresh their region-geographic knowledge of single world continents and Czech republic as well in context of contemporary social and political situation.
Basic Literature
NETOPIL, Rostislav: Hydrologie pevnin. Praha: Academia, 1972. (cs)
DEMEK, Jaromír, QUITT, Evžen, RAUŠER, Jaroslav: Úvod do obecné fyzické geografie. Praha: Academia, 1975. (cs)
BRÁZDIL, R. a kol.: Úvod do studia planety Země. Praha: SPN, 1988. (cs)
kolektiv: Anatomie Země. Albatros, 1995. (cs)
HRALA, Václav, KAŠPAR, Václav, VITVAROVÁ, Irina: Geografie světového hospodářství. Praha: VŠE, 1996. (cs)
BIČÍK, Ivan a kol.: Regionální zeměpis světadílů. Praha: ČGS, 2007. (cs)
BIČÍK, Ivan a kol.: Makroregiony světa. Praha: ČGS, 2010. (cs)
DEMEK, Jaromír, QUITT, Evžen, RAUŠER, Jaroslav: Úvod do obecné fyzické geografie. Praha: Academia, 1975. (cs)
BRÁZDIL, R. a kol.: Úvod do studia planety Země. Praha: SPN, 1988. (cs)
kolektiv: Anatomie Země. Albatros, 1995. (cs)
HRALA, Václav, KAŠPAR, Václav, VITVAROVÁ, Irina: Geografie světového hospodářství. Praha: VŠE, 1996. (cs)
BIČÍK, Ivan a kol.: Regionální zeměpis světadílů. Praha: ČGS, 2007. (cs)
BIČÍK, Ivan a kol.: Makroregiony světa. Praha: ČGS, 2010. (cs)
Recommended Reading
BLIJ, Harm J. De, MURPHY, Alexander B.: Human Geography - Culture, Society and Space. New York: Wiley, 2003. (en)
Syllabus
1. Geospheres.
2. Planetary geography.
3. Georelief development.
4. Climate factors.
5. Weather.
6. Fundamentals of hydrology and hydrography.
7. World plant bands.
8. Demographic mobility of population.
9. Regional geography of Asia.
10.Regional geography of Africa,Australia.
11.Regional geography of Europe.
12.Regional geography of the Czech republic.
13.Actual methods of geographical research
2. Planetary geography.
3. Georelief development.
4. Climate factors.
5. Weather.
6. Fundamentals of hydrology and hydrography.
7. World plant bands.
8. Demographic mobility of population.
9. Regional geography of Asia.
10.Regional geography of Africa,Australia.
11.Regional geography of Europe.
12.Regional geography of the Czech republic.
13.Actual methods of geographical research
Prerequisites
Knowledge of geography on level of secondary school.
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Geospheres.
2. Planetary geography.
3. Georelief development.
4. Climate factors.
5. Weather.
6. Fundamentals of hydrology and hydrography.
7. World plant bands.
8. Demographic mobility of population.
9. Regional geography of Asia.
10.Regional geography of Africa,Australia.
11.Regional geography of Europe.
12.Regional geography of the Czech republic.
13.Actual methods of geographical research
2. Planetary geography.
3. Georelief development.
4. Climate factors.
5. Weather.
6. Fundamentals of hydrology and hydrography.
7. World plant bands.
8. Demographic mobility of population.
9. Regional geography of Asia.
10.Regional geography of Africa,Australia.
11.Regional geography of Europe.
12.Regional geography of the Czech republic.
13.Actual methods of geographical research