OVERVIEW

The teaching is divided into three modules. The first two are dedicated to the basic geographic lexicon and to the development of geographic thought over time, to understand the logics and questions of method that characterize different lines of scientific research in human geography. The third module is dedicated to theoretical models and theories developed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to raise awareness of the evolution of geographical thought from its origins to the advent of modern and post-modern thought, geographical theories and models, issues of vocabulary, sources and tools of analysis, focusing on the trend cultural geography and the different approaches of scientific thought that characterize it.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to raise awareness of the evolution of geographical thought from its origins to the advent of modern and post-modern thought.

The course aims to raise awareness of the issues of geographical lexicon.

The teaching aims above all at the knowledge of the merits and limitations offered by the sources and analysis tools.

The course aims to critically deepen the trend of cultural geography and the different approaches of scientific thought that characterize it.

The course aims to acquire the cognitive and operational skills necessary to describe and interpret terrestrial facts and their spatial organization in a timely and rigorous way.

The course aims to make known the "models" and some theories proposed by scholars of human geography.

PREREQUISITES

Knowledge and skills in the geographic field provided for by the National Geographical Indications for upper secondary schools.

TEACHING METHODS

The course takes place through participatory lectures.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

I-II module (6 cfu)) - The evolution of geographic thought from antiquity to the advent of modern and postmodern thought, with particular regard to the scientific approaches proposed by the "schools" that have followed one another from the late nineteenth century to today. The lexicon, sources and analysis tools useful for interpreting the spatial organization of anthropogenic phenomena. The orientations of cultural geography according to the different approaches of thought. Methodologies in the synchronic and diachronic analysis of the landscape.

III module (3 credits) - Analysis of some geographic models and theories proposed by scholars of human geography.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

I-II module (6 credits)
- G. Rocca, Introduzione alla geografia umana, Genova, Ecig, 2008.

III module (3 credits)
Analysis of some geographic models and theories proposed by scholars of human geography.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GIUSEPPE ROCCA (President)

CARLA PAMPALONI

ALESSANDRO CARASSALE (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

22 February 2022

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

In official appeals, the exam takes place in oral form.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The degree of profit is ascertained by proposing a topic for each module, which the student must develop, linking it, if possible, to other topics of the same module or of other modules being examined.

Exam schedule