Course Details
Geography
Academic Year 2022/23
GE55 course is part of 3 study plans
B-P-C-GK Summer Semester 1st year
B-K-C-GK Summer Semester 1st year
unknown (history data) unknown (history data) 1st 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.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Extension of knowledge technical focussed students of natural and social processes having influnce to form landscape. Improvement of region knowledge of sudents.
Knowledge
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.
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
Prerequisites
Knowledge of geography on level of secondary school.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
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