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Course organization
This course presents the basic concepts and tools for the study of Geography in preparation for understanding the problems of the contemporary world and aimed at professional opportunities in the education sector.
Prerequisites: Students should have already acquired from high school, familiarity with the following topics: The Earth as a planet (shape, size and movement). The representation of the surface of the earth (Maps, scale reduction, projections, cartographic products). The atmosphere (composition, division, characteristics) and climate and its elements (solar radiation and temperature, pressure and atmospheric circulation, humidity and precipitation), variations (factors) and classification of climates. The hydrosphere (seas and oceans, movement of the seas, inland waters). The lithosphere (distribution of land masses and oceans, the theory of plate tectonics, large topographic structures, volcanoes and earthquakes.) These basic skills are part of the study syllabus, addressed at achieving an adequate preparation for the education field (teaching).
Course Content: Object of study and method of Geography. The partitions of Geography. The tools of the geographer. The world and its problems.
Textbooks:
- Le parole chiave della geografia (G. De Vecchis e C. Palagiano), Roma, Carrocci 2009: First section (Epistemology), Second section (Methods), Third section (Representation), Fourth section (Survey unit), pp. 23-168)
-A. FREMONT, Vi piace la geografia? (D. Gavinelli), Roma, Carrocci, 2009.
-A.MACCHIA, Il mondo e i suoi paesi. La Geografia del Pianeta a inizio XXI secolo, Bologna, Pàtron 2010 (sections to be selected).
- Le parole chiave della geografia (G. De Vecchis e C. Palagiano), Roma, Carrocci 2009: First section (Epistemology), Second section (Methods), Third section (Representation), Fourth section (Survey unit), pp. 23-168)
To review the "prerequisites" it is recommended, in addition to consulting an Atlas, a good manual on Earth Sciences. LUPIA PALMIERI E., Il globo terrestre e la sua evoluzione, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2000 is suggested to anyone who has not yet studied the basic elements of physical geography.
Other bibliographic references can be suggested for those students who attend lessons.
A meeting will be requested of all students, in particular non-attending ones, in order to select the most appropriate choice.
Teaching Methods: The course consists of classroom lectures with slide projections.
Final exam. For students who attend lessons there will be a written learning process check test on the basic knowledge of physical geography and cartography.
