- Docente: Marzia Marchi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-GGR/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Anthropology, Religions, Oriental Civilizations (cod. 8493)
Learning outcomes
During the lessons, students acquire skills in the field of human
geography, with particular focus on population and settlement. Also
learn the tools to read the geographical and topographical maps of
the past and of today.
Course contents
Human Geography as a way to interpret the globalization
-Cultures and Methods of Geography in historical perspective.
- Cartography and Travels: instruments for our understanding the space
-World Population and its trends in different countries . Gender and age relations; migrations. Demographic and cartographic indicators.
- Geography and culture: languages, religions, processes of globalization.
-Introduction to different aspect of human geography: economic geography, political geography, urban geography.
-Resources uses and Planet degradation : challenges for sustainability
- Exemples of geo-historical transformations in Emilia Romagna during the 20th.century.
Readings/Bibliography
Students must to know :
A- Grenier A.L, Dematteis G,Lanza C., Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, UTET, Torino 2016,
B- Marchi M., Geografie dell'Emilia Romagna nel Novecento ", AMS ACTA Unibo, 2016, pp. 53, on line in http://amsacta.cib.unibo.it.+ M.Marchi, Geografie del cibo in Emilia Romagna.Culture alimentari e prodotti tipici, in "Ri-Vista", n.2/2015, pp. 42-59, on line in AMS Campus.
Teaching methods
Video projector will be used for help the lessons with photos, maps and geographical models
Assessment methods
Written examination will be organized, consisting in some open questions, tired from arguments discussed during the lecture or in texts indicated in the program.
It will assess the ability of the students to expose the general aspects of various themes, and the necessary examples.
Office hours
See the website of Marzia Marchi