Course: Elements of Cartography

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Course title Elements of Cartography
Course code KGE/ZKAR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Severýnová Popková Klára, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The conceptual model of cartography is linked to geographic education in the following topics in the form of delimitation of geography maps and cartography, and formulation of problems and tasks for reflection, possibilities of competitions and games based on maps and their use in class and field. 1. Conceptual basis of geography and cartography, content of general geographic and topographical maps 2. Displaying global contexts, globes and world maps 3. Regional maps, general geographic maps 4. Place, topography and topographic maps 5. Attributes of geographic objects, thematic maps 6. Analysis of thematic map, identification, composition, background, theme, context 7. Summary of Cartographic Concepts

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing)
  • Class attendance - 56 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Integration of geographic and cartographic conceptual bases.. Getting acquainted with key concepts of cartography (geometric basis of maps, cartographic imaging, cartometry, remote sensing of the Earth, generalization, symbolization) Practicing the skill of reading the contents of a topographic and general geographic map, differentiating the geographic and topographical basis of thematic map and mapping of thematic map from a cartographic point of view the information available.
orientation in knowledges of cartography and topography in university range, working out of given map outputs
Prerequisites
knowledge of cartography and topography in grammar school range of geography

Assessment methods and criteria
Presentation of acquired experience via portfolio

Credit: participation on seminars, attendance 80 %, check tests, working out of semesteral tasks Exam: writting, Oral
Recommended literature
  • Čapek, R. Geografická kartografie. Praha, 1992. ISBN 80-04-25153-6.
  • Hojovec, V. Kartografie. Praha, 1987.
  • Kaňok, J. Tematická kartografie. Ostrava, 1999. ISBN 80-7042-781-7.
  • Miklín Jan, Dušek Radek, Krtička Luděk, Kaláb Oto. Tvorba map. Ostrava, 2018.
  • Nižnanský, B., Popková, K. Kartografie pro geografy. 2012.
  • Robinson et al. Elements of Cartography. New York, 1995.


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