Course: Place and Local Region

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Course title Place and Local Region
Course code KGE/MMRN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vávra Jaroslav, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Topics of lectures: 1. Introduction to the issues of the local region and place. 2. Development in the philosophy of science of space and place (choir, topos, place, region). 3. Development in the understanding of the region in geographical thinking. 4. Gravitational space models (Reilly's model). 5. Development of administrative regionalization in the Czech Republic. 6. Regionalization and local region in the work of M. Hampl. 7. Global and local concepts (glocalization). 8. Regional development at the level of the local region. 9. Perception of place (empirical and experiential). 10. Maps and spatial data for the local region. 11. Topographic and mental maps of the local region / place. 12. Links between local regions, focus on the Liberec region. 13. Cross-border connections of local regions, focus on the Liberec region. 14. New trends in regionalization.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is for the student to acquire knowledge and skills in regionalization, in the geographical content of the local region, to understand the humanistic concept of the place.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Hampl, M. a kol. Geografická organizace společnosti a transformační procesy v ČR. Praha, 2005.
  • CHORLEY, R. J., & HAGGETT, P. Models in Geography. 1967.


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