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Socioeconomic Geography - MZ340U06
Title: Socioekonomická geografie
Czech title: Socioekonomická geografie
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 8
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:4/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Dana Fialová, Ph.D.
doc. RNDr. Viktor Květoň, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The course is focused on basic topics and problems of social and economic geography for specialists in education in geography. Core concepts, processes and trends in social and economic geography are discussed. The lecture is based on the presentation of key general trends, elaboration of the topic on a specific example in a selected region and generalisation of trends for typologically or regionally related territories, regions, places. Different geographic scales of monitoring from global, regional to local levels are taken into account. The course consists of morning lecture and afternoon seminar focused on use of themes in secondary school education of Geography. Follow-up exercises are focused on acquiring skills in the application of theoretical and methodological knowledge and their use in teaching practice. The main emphasis is placed on individual and team work, analytical, synthetic, cartographic and presentation skills.
Learning outcomes:
The graduate of the course uses selected terminology with understanding, is able to process and interpret demographic, social and economic data and spatial connections between them, critically assess data sources and evaluation results. Based on the knowledge gained from the course, the student is able to explain the connections between problems of a socio-economic and socio-cultural nature at various geographic scales, is able to navigate on settlement maps and thematic maps of school atlases related to socio-economic issues.

Last update: Ouředníček Martin, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2025)
Literature -

Required literature:

COE, N., KELLY, P., YEUNG, H. W. C. (2013): Economic geography: a contemporary introduction. 2nd ed. Hoboken, N. J: Wiley-Blackwell, 576 pp.

GREGORY, D., JOHNSTON, R. J., PRATT, G., WATTS, M., WHATMORE, S. (2009): The dictionary of human geography. 5th ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1052 pp.

HAGGETT, P. (1983): Geography: A Modern Synthesis. 3rd rev. ed. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 670 pp.

OUŘEDNÍČEK, M., TEMELOVÁ, J., POSPÍŠILOVÁ, L. eds. (2011): Atlas of socio-spatial differentiation of the Czech Republic. Praha: Karolinum, 137 pp.

TOUŠEK, V., KUNC, J., VYSTOUPIL, J. a kol. (2008): Ekonomická a sociální geografie. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 411 pp.

Školní atlas dnešního světa. Last edition. Terra.

Školní atlas světa. Last edition. Kartografie.

 

Suggested readings:

HAMPL, M. (1996): Geografická organizace společnosti a transformační procesy v České republice. Praha: DemoArt, 395 pp.

HRNČIAROVÁ, T., MACKOVČIN, P., ZVARA et al. (2009): Landscape Atlas of the Czech Republic. Praha a Průhonice: MŽP ČR, Výzkumný ústav Silva Taroucy pro krajinu a okrasné zahradnictví, 331 pp.

OUŘEDNÍČEK, M., JÍCHOVÁ, J., POSPÍŠILOVÁ, L. eds. (2017): Historicical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands. Praha: Karolinum.

PAVLÍK, Z., ŠUBRTOVÁ, A., RYCHTAŘÍKOVÁ, J. (1986): Základy demografie. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 732 pp.

PAVLÍK, Z., KÜHNL, K. (1982): Úvod do kvantitativních metod pro geografy. 1. vyd. Praha: SPN, 266 pp.

Journals: Geografické rozhledy, National Geographic.

www.atlasobyvatelstva.cz 

Last update: Ouředníček Martin, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Credit requirements (awarded by Dr. Fialová)
 
• Each pair submits (in printed form - will be returned) 2 tasks (Czech district, foreign region)
• Presentation of assigned tasks - one of the couple
• Essay on selected topic
• Research on a given topic
• Active participation in exercises
• Gain at least 50 points (maximum possible 65)
   - 2 points - participation in exercises

   - 1 to 3 points - activity on exercise, the result of homework

   - 1 to 5 points - research

   - 1 to 5 points - essay

   - 1 to 5 points - each block of exercises

• Passing the credit test (exercise content)
• Terms for home work
Possible max two excused absences

 

Examination requirements (granted by Prof. Ouředníček, Assoc. Prof. Květoň)

Passing the written test (open and closed questions based on presentations from lectures and required literature)

Last update: Ouředníček Martin, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Development and position of socio-economic geography discipline

2. Geographical position and location

3. Methods of socio-economic geography

4. Scale, hierarchy, core-periphery

5. Regional differentiation and unevenness

6. Regionalization

7. Current tendencies of economic development

8. Transport, mobility, accessibility

9. Settlement geography

10. Geography of population

11. Migration

12. Local processes and problems

13. Discussion seminar

Last update: Ouředníček Martin, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (20.08.2025)
 
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