30151 - Geography (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course aims at offering to the students some geographical tools to understand and critically analyse the global changes occurring in several fields, such as: population, environment, territory. It will start with some theoretical and methodological aspects and will then focus on several very actual topics concerning demography and migration, cultural and linguistic diversity and the environment.

Course contents

The course has a doublefold perspective: the acquisition of both a theoretical knowldege on Geography and of practical competences on how geography can be used in didactics.

In particular: Geography as both a tool and a goal of Education and Social Inclusion; Geography as a Territorial Process; Geography related to and in relation with Culture

Readings/Bibliography

NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

Studying parts a+b+c:

 

a) General Human Geography (one between the following):

• Greiner A.L., Dematteis G, Lanza C., Geografia umana, Terza edizione, UTET, Novara, 2019 (NO the following paragraphs: 1.1.1 – 1.2.3 – 1.2.6 – 1.3.2 – 1.3.3 – 1.3.4 – 2.1.3 – 3.2.4 – 3.3 – 4.1.1 – 4.1.2 – 4.3.1 – 4.3.2 – 4.8.2 – 6.3.1 – 6.3.2 – 6.3.3 – 6.3.4 – 7.1 – 7.2.3 – 8.1 – 8.2 – 8.3.5 – 8.4 – 9.1 – 9.2 -10.2.2 – 10.2.3 – 10.3.1 – 10.3.2 – 10.3.3 – 10.4.3 – 10.5.1 – 11.3.3 – 11.4 – 11.5)

• De Vecchis G, Fatigati F., Geografia generale. Un'introduzione, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (STUDY par.: 2.6 - 2.7 - 3.5 - 3.6; chapt. 5 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15)

 

b) Geographical Themes, Theories and Models (one between the following):

• Minca C., Colombino A., Breve manuale di geografia umana, Trento, CEDAM, 2012 (NO part 4)

• Frémont A., Vi piace la geografia?, (ed. it. a c. di Gavinelli D.), Roma, Carocci, 2007 (NO parts 1 e 5)

 

c) Teaching geography, literature, and culture (one among the following):

• De Vecchis G., Insegnare Geografia. Teoria, metodi e pratiche, Torino, UTET, 2016 (YES: par. 1.3; cap. 2, 3; par. 4.2, 4.3; cap. 5, 8; par. 9.2, 9.3)

• Marengo M., Geografia e letteratura. Piccolo manuale d'uso, Bologna, Pàtron, 2016

• Pagnini M. P., Terranova G., Geopolitica delle rotte migratorie. Tra criminalità e umanesimo in un mondo digitale, Roma, Aracne, 2018

 

 

 

ATTENDING STUDENTS

Studying parts a+b+c:

 

a) Issues and themes of contemporary Geography

• Tools and materials provided during the course

 

b) Teaching geography, literature, and culture (one among the following):

• De Vecchis G., Insegnare Geografia. Teoria, metodi e pratiche, Torino, UTET, 2016 (DA STUDIARE: par. 1.3; cap. 2, 3; par. 4.2, 4.3; cap. 5, 8; par. 9.2, 9.3)

• Marengo M., Geografia e letteratura. Piccolo manuale d'uso, Bologna, Pàtron, 2016

• Smith S., Fuga in Europa. La giovane Africa verso il vecchio continente, Torino, Einaudi, 2018

c) Geography for learning, knowledge and development (one between the following):

• Writing a didactic project with the support of teacher's instructions

• Pagnini M. P., Terranova G., Geopolitica delle rotte migratorie. Tra criminalità e umanesimo in un mondo digitale, Roma, Aracne, 2018 (NO chapt. 1; Appendix: Nigeria + 2 study cases)
  

Teaching methods

In presence lessons, supported by the use of power point presentations, available on the website: http://campus.unibo.it.

Students will be invited to share a participative attitude during the lessons, by participating to class/group discussions, seminars and other cooperative activities.

Assessment methods

Oral examination of the following goals, knoledges and competences:

(not attending students): contents of the texts; analysis and interpretation of the geographical phenomena and of the relation among geography, literature, and culture; ability to find relations supported by examples; knowledge and use of the geographical lexicon; comunication in italian language

(attending students): main geographical issues and problems; analysis and interpretation of the geographical phenomena and of the relation among geography, literature, and culture; ability to write a didactic project; knowledge and use of the geographical lexicon; comunication in italian language

Teaching tools

A Geographic Atlas or digital resources are recommended

Office hours

See the website of Filippo Pistocchi