711-0611/01 – Social and economic geography (SEG)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Social SciencesCredits4
Subject guarantorPhDr. Anna Papřoková, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorPhDr. Anna Papřoková, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year4Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2002/2003Year of cancellation2010/2011
Intended for the facultiesHGFIntended for study typesBachelor
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
NAV11 Mgr. Alice Navrátilová
PAP40 PhDr. Anna Papřoková, Ph.D.
SOL06 PhDr. Oldřich Solanský, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit and Examination 16+0
Part-time Credit and Examination 16+0

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Analyzing, identifying, reassessing and qualified designing of the change of geo-spatial and socially economic phenomena and processes.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Project work

Summary

The load-bearing portion of this subject is the world economy geography and the linked-up social and economic, environmental, demographic und town-planning issues and viewpoints. On the basis of such observations it is possible to analyze and influence with minimum negative impacts the area bound organization of social and economic phenomena and processes.

Compulsory literature:

Knox, P., Agnew, J. (1989). The Geography of the World Economy.London, New York: Edward Arnold Fellmann, J.,Getis, A., Getis, J. (1992). Human Geography (Landscapes of Human Activites). Dubuque:Wm.C.Brown Publishers

Recommended literature:

Fingleton,B.edited (c2007).New directions in economic geography. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Mackinnon, D. (2007). An introduction to economic geography: globalization, uneven development and place.(Danny Mackinnon and Andrew Cumbers). Harlow : Pearson Prentice Hall Glassner, M. I. (1993). Political Geography. New York, Singapore: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Neil, C. M., Kelly P. F.and Yeung H.W.C.(2007). Economic geography a contemporary introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

test project oral examination

E-learning

Other requirements

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1.The subject of the socially economic geography (further SEG only). Development hereof, inter-disciplinary nature hereof, approaches and targets of the investigation. 2.Methodology. Specific features of the methods of SEG. 3.Complexity of the space. Natural, cultural and economical factors. 4. State as the subject of SEG study. Basic characteristics (territory, population, politically- economic system, method of the economy organisation ). 5. Status and possibilities of human resources Lay-outof the world population and its dynamics. . Indicators of human development. 6. Reproduction behavior and social institutions. State, matrimony, , family, socal politics. 7. Selected structural features of the population and their connections. . Demographic structure, age, races, religiosity, economic activity. 8. Influence of settlement on the spatial, industrial, socially-economic and life conditions. Development of towns. . 9. Social layers. Levels of living and life styles. Social exclusion. 10. Effect of social-economic factors upon the deployment of industries and problems of modern society. 11. General features of the geography of the world economy. Economic organisation, natural resources, economical growth. t. 12. World system analysis. Europe in the social and economic survey (industrialization e, services, unions). Development of the North American and Asia-Pacific areas, , developing countries. 13. Position of the Czech Republic in the world economy. 14. World economics in geo-spatial connections. Integration and globalization processes.

Conditions for subject completion

Part-time form (validity from: 1960/1961 Summer semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Exercises evaluation and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51 3
        Exercises evaluation Credit 35 (35) 0 3
                Written exam Written test 35  0 3
        Examination Examination 65 (65) 0 3
                Oral Oral examination 65  0 3
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Occurrence in study plans

Academic yearProgrammeBranch/spec.Spec.ZaměřeníFormStudy language Tut. centreYearWSType of duty
2010/2011 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration K Czech Most 4 Compulsory study plan
2010/2011 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Most 4 Compulsory study plan
2009/2010 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Most 4 Compulsory study plan
2008/2009 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Most 4 Compulsory study plan
2007/2008 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Most 4 Compulsory study plan
2006/2007 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Most 4 Compulsory study plan
2005/2006 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Most 4 Compulsory study plan
2004/2005 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Ostrava 4 Compulsory study plan
2003/2004 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Ostrava 4 Compulsory study plan
2002/2003 (B6202) Economic Policy and Administration (6202R009) Economics, Management and Informatics in The Field of Public Administration K Czech Ostrava 4 Compulsory study plan

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Assessment of instruction



2009/2010 Winter