Course: Geography: Concept of Place

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Course title Geography: Concept of Place
Course code KGE/PMSG
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
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.
  • Rubáš Dominik, RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Bendl Tomáš, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
unspecified

Learning activities and teaching methods
Seminár
  • Contacts hours - 28 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Students use humanistic geographical methods in their own chosen place, which they compare with humanely positivist geographical methods. The course is focused on a humanistic understanding of place. The basic concept is the phenomenological philosophy of Heidegger, Patočka and Malpas. A place in the works of geographers Tuan, Relph, Cresswell and others.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written assignment

Recommended literature
  • Blunt, Alison and Dowling, Robyn. Home. Abingdon, 2006. ISBN 10 0-415-33275-3.
  • Cresswell, Tim. Place. A short Introduction. Oxford, 2004. ISBN 13 978-1-4051-067.
  • Lynch, Kevin. Obraz města. The Image of the City. Praha, 2004. ISBN 80-7273-094-0.
  • Malpas, Jeff. Heidegger's Topology: being, place, world. Cambridge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-262-63368-0.
  • Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci. Towards a phenomenology of Architecture. New York, 1979. ISBN 0-8478-0287-6.
  • Patočka, Jan. Úvod do fenomenologické filozofie. Praha, 2003. ISBN 80-7298-064-5.


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