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Academic Year/course: 2017/18

419 - Degree in Geography and Land Management

28303 - Geographical thought: conceptual and methodological evolution


Syllabus Information

Academic Year:
2017/18
Subject:
28303 - Geographical thought: conceptual and methodological evolution
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
419 - Degree in Geography and Land Management
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
First semester
Subject Type:
Compulsory
Module:
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5.1. Methodological overview

This subject has a theoretical and practical orientation. Academic activities begin with the theoretical sessions (45 hours) by the lecturer, synchronizing this development practices in the classroom sessions (10 hours). Both in the development of theoretical and practical sessions, the exhibition allows an academic dynamic in which the student intervention may be continuous and absolutely necessary to complete the learning process.

5.2. Learning tasks

Lecture sessions: 45 hours

Interactive, individual or group activities: 10 hours

Directed activities: 34 hours

Private study: 58 hous

Assessment: 3 hours

5.3. Syllabus

0.- Introduction
1. Building one science: construction stages of Geography.
1.1. The origins of Geography and its relationship to the Cartography. From the Old Age to the Scientific Revolution.

1.2. The precursors of Modern Geography: the naturalistic approach.
1.3. Modern Geography: Determinism, Possibilism ...
1.4. Epistemological revolutions in the second half of the twentieth century.
1.5. The answers to the Neopositivism in Geography.
1.6. New Trends.


2. Fields of geographic knowledge: Physical Geography, Human Geography and Regional Geography.


3. Main concepts in Geography.


4. Geography and Science
4.1. The role of the Geography in the Science.
4.2. Methods of Analysis in Geography

5.4. Course planning and calendar

The course is divided into four thematic blocks. The first block includes the first unit -construction stages of Geography-; it runs during the first six weeks of the term. The second thematic block includes the unit 2 -presentation of the different study fields of Geography- and runs during the following two weeks. The third block covers the main concepts about Geography and develops during one week, and the fourth block includes the role of Geography in the Science, and runs during one or two weeks.

 

For further details concernig the timetable, classroom and other information of the course please refer to the

“Facultad de Filosofía y Letras”  web site (https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases)

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