- Docente: Laura Federzoni
- Credits: 12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide a solid knowledge of key-concepts, origin, development of Human Geography and of Cartography as a field of study. Students will be able to analyse social phaenomena in spatial perspective, according to the methodology of political, economic, urban geography and of cartography. Students will be able to analyse critically atlases, literary and historical sources to study territory and to achieve geographical information in the digital environment.
Course contents
1) Theories and methods of Geography; Geography and other sciences; evolution of Human Geography. Geography and territorial development: nature and human society; the men's spread over the Earth; migrations; demographic trends in the world. The settlement: rural settlement and agricolture; urban settlement; towns and regions; industrial location; environmental policies. 2) Cartography: evolution from the Ancient Age to the present days; foundations of map-making; topographic cartography; thematic cartography. 3) Geography of landscape: environment and landscape in geographic tradition; meanings of "environment" and "landscape"; natural and human environment; sustaineble development; parks and environmental protection; landscape representation and analysis; landscape planning in Italy and in Europe after the European Landscape Convention.
Readings/Bibliography
1) A.L. GREINER, G. DEMATTEIS, C. LANZA, Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, Torino, UTET, 2016.
2) C. PALAGIANO, A. ASOLE, G. ARENA, Cartografia e territorio nei secoli, Roma, Carocci, 1997.
3) E. TURRI, Il paesaggio degli uomini, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2004.
4) P. BONORA, Fermiamo il consumo di suolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015.
Teaching methods
lessons; cartographic laboratory; excursions; conferences
Assessment methods
Written exam about general concepts of Geography (2 questions) and Cartography (1 question); oral exam about Landscape Geography.
Teaching tools
projector, topographic and digital cartography, thematic cartography
Office hours
See the website of Laura Federzoni