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.

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

winter

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