Course: Seminar in Geography of Agriculture

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Course title Seminar in Geography of Agriculture
Course code KGG/SEGZ
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Szczyrba Zdeněk, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Students will elaborate development and spatial differentiation of selected commodities of plant and animal production in selected regions (including statistical and cartographic expression). Part of the seminar is discussion of agricultural topics, influence of agriculture on the environment, organic farming, development and direction of world trade with agro-commodities etc.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Attendace - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Course Credit - 20 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 50 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
In seminar students will be acquainted with spatial statistical data on agriculture in the CR and world where they will exercise selected methods used in the social geography.
Explain relations in geography of agriculture, deepen active knowledge.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio

Elaboration of assigned seminar works.
Recommended literature
  • Bičík, I., Jančák, V. (2005). Transformační procesy v českém zemědělství po roce 1990. Praha : Univerzita Karlova.
  • Ivanička, K. (1987). Základy teórie a metodológie socioekonomickej geografie. Bratislava: SPN.
  • Kopp, J. et al. (2001). Úvod do regionálního výzkumu. Plzeň: ZČU.
  • Lynch, K. (2005). Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World. London: Routledge.
  • Robinson, G. M. (1998). Methods and techniques in human geography. Wiley.
  • Spišiak, P. (2007). Základy geografie poľnohospodárstva a lesného hospodárstva. Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave.


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