According to the ministerial order that provides for geography the knowledge of "elements of physical and human geography", the course aims to provide the foundations of general geography, with specific reference to the contents and skills that are addressed in nursery and primary school; it also proposes to convey a critical knowledge of the main aspects, processes and problems faced by geography, with references to the Italian and European context. Therefore the students will acquire the ability to illustrate the main natural and human processes that contribute to the formation of territories and landscapes and will be able to highlight their mutual relations.
Attendance and participation in the proposed training activities and individual study will enable the student to
The teaching activities will be organised in order to encourage active learning on the part of the students; for this reason, moments of frontal and laboratory teaching will be alternated. The frontal lessons will be aimed at providing the basic tools to understand the main territorial processes that take place at the Italian and European scale and the complex relationships that are established between their landscape configurations. The laboratory-type teaching activities will be based on problem-based methodologies and will be aimed at stimulating the critical and transcalar analysis of some problems of geography of Italy and Europe. Specific workshop activities will be devoted to the discussion of the design of teaching activities related to the geography problems of Italy and Europe studied.
The module proposes to study the main processes affecting the geography of Italy and Europe. In particular, it focuses on the following themes - the idea of Europe - the European Union; - the peopling of Europe and Italy; - urbanisation in Italy and Europe; - rural Europe and Italy; - Mediterranean Europe; - Europe outside Europe.
Exam program for attending students: - Teaching material (texts, papers, videos, slides) uploaded by the teacher on AulaWeb. - Critical reading of at least one of the following texts:
Examination programme for non-attending students: - Teaching material (videos and slides) uploaded by the teacher on AulaWeb. - Study of a text to be chosen from among:
- Critical reading of at least one of the following texts:
Ricevimento: Student reception is held, by appointment, on the Teams platform on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 5:30 pm.
GIACOMO ZANOLIN (President)
FEDERICO DE BONI (President Substitute)
March 16, 2021
GEOGRAPHY OF ITALY AND OF EUROPE
The examination will take place through an oral interview in which the student will have to present a didactic activity and will have to answer some questions aimed at verifying the understanding of the main territorial processes that take place at the Italian and European scale and the complex relations that are established between their landscape configurations.
The examination will allow to verify:
It is possible to take the exam only after having acquired the laboratory credit in Didactics of Geography.
All students are invited to periodically consult the page of this course on the e-learning portal AulaWeb (accessible from the University website or at www.aulaweb.unige.it). All information and materials relating to this course are published exclusively on this site.
In case it should not be possible to hold the lessons in person for health reasons, they will be delivered remotely using the University's TEAMS and/or AulaWeb platforms.
Students who do not attend the lectures are invited to contact the lecturer in order to agree on the examination procedures.
