Academic Year/course:
2017/18
419 - Degree in Geography and Land Management
28332 - Social and Cultural Geography: Processes and Land Patterns
Syllabus Information
Academic Year:
2017/18
Subject:
28332 - Social and Cultural Geography: Processes and Land Patterns
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
419 - Degree in Geography and Land Management
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
4
Semester:
First semester
Subject Type:
Compulsory
Module:
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5.1. Methodological overview
The learning and teaching methodology developed in the course is aimed to promote the attainment of its objectives. A wide range of teaching and learning activities is implemented, such as interactive lessons, practical exercises, individual or group activities, directed activities, field work and private study.
A high level of student participation will be required from all students throughout the course.
Extensive material will be available via the Moodle site of the course. This offers a variety of resources including a repository of the lecture notes used in class, a course syllabus as well as other forms of course-specific materials, including a discussion forum.
5.2. Learning tasks
- Lecture sessions (37 hours)
- Practical activities (15 hours)
- Field work (8 hours)
- Directed activities (12 hours)
- Personal study (75 hours)
- Examination (3 hours)
5.3. Syllabus
• Theory and Methodology in Social and Cultural Geography
• Society, Culture and Spatial Organization
• Social and Cultural Change
• Insecurity and socio-spatial segregation
• Gender, identity and territory
• The Spaces of Violence
• Religion, place and space
5.4. Course planning and calendar
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)
5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources
Claval, P. (2012): Géographie culturelle. Une nouvelle approche des societies et des milieux, Paris, Armand Collin, Coll. U-série Géographie (352 pp), ISBN 978 2 200 27756 7
Macionis, J.J., Plummer, K. (2011) Sociología, Madrid, Pearson Educación (750 pp), ISBN 9788420550305
Maier, J. (1987): Geografía Social, Madrid, Rialp (160 pp), ISBN 978 8 4321 2374 0
Wackermann, G. (2008): Géographie des civilisations, Paris, Ellipses (600 pp), ISBN 978 2 7298 3709 9