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Course: Behavioural Geography

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Course title Behavioural Geography
Course code KGG/BEHAV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Klapka Pavel, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Basic concepts of behavioural geography are defined and development of geographical thought in this field presented. Course deals with perception and cognition of environment, time-geography, behavioural geographical aspects of decision-making and spatial behaviour connected with activities such as travel, recreation, leisure, migration, consumption behaviour, localization of productive and non-productive facilities, elections etc. Course also provides information on problems of environmental stress, pathological human behaviour and behavioural aspects of natural and technological hazards and risks.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
  • Attendace - 30 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 50 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Course is aimed at the problems of spatial behaviour and behaviour in space.
Recall basic terms and concepts in behavioural geography.
Prerequisites
Knowledge in the extent of preceding compulsory subjects in the study plan.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Student performance

Knowledge within the scope of lectures and study literature (basic concepts, understanding of approach emphasizing alternative to economically and spatially rational human behaviour, cognition of selected aspects of spatial human behaviour and behaviour of man in space).
Recommended literature
  • Drbohlav, D. (1995). Behaviorální geografie aneb snaha více poznat a porozumět chování člověka v prostoru a čase. In Gardavský, V., ed. Otázky geografie 3.. Praha : Česká geografická společnost.
  • Drbohlav, D. (1991). Mentální mapa ČSFR. Definice, aplikace, podmíněnost. Sborník ČSGS, 96, č. 3, s. 163-176..
  • Gold, J.R. (1980). An introduction to behavioural geography. New York : Oxford University Press.
  • Golledge, R. G., Stimson, R. J. (1990). Analytical behavioural geography. London : Routlege.
  • Golledge, R.G., Stimson, R.J. (1990). Analytical behavioural geography. London : Routledge.
  • Golledge, R.G., Stimson, R.J. (1997). Spatial Behavior: A Geographical perspective. New York : The Guilford Press.
  • Gould, P, Whiter, R. (1974). Mental maps. New York : Penguin Books Inc.
  • Ira, V. (2001). Geografia času : prístup, základné koncepty a aplikácie. Geografický časopis, 53, 231-246.
  • Ira, V., Kollár, D. (1993). Behaviorálne aspekty výskumu technologických hazardov a rizík. In Životné prostredie : revue pre teóriu a tvorbu životného prostredia. roč. XXVII., č. 2, pp. 83-85..
  • Johnston, R. J., Gregory, D., Smith, H. (eds.). (1994). The Dictionary of Human Geography. London : Blackwell Publishers.
  • Lynch. The image of the city. Cambridge : The MIT Press.
  • Walmsley, D.J:, Lewis, G.J. (1984). Human geography - behavioural approaches. New York : Longman Inc.
  • Walmsley, D.J., Lewis, G.J. (1993). People and environment: behavioural approach in human geography. London : Harlow.


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 30.04.2025 23:58. Data created for academic year 2024/2025