Unit HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (CULTURAL HERITAGE)

Course

Cultural heritage

Study-unit Code

GP005296

Curriculum

In all curricula

Teacher

Donata Castagnoli

Teachers

Donata Castagnoli

Hours

72 ore - Donata Castagnoli

CFU

Course Regulation

Coorte 2020

Offered

2021/22

Learning activities

Base

Area

Discipline geografiche e antropologiche

Academic discipline

M-GGR/01

Type of study-unit

Obbligatorio (Required)

Type of learning activities

Attività formativa monodisciplinare

Language of instruction

italian

Contents

The course presents the basic themes of human geography, population and population movements, settlement; the relationships between population and territory are seen above all in terms of cultural geography. Insights are dedicated to examples of territorial enhancement (cultural, ecosystem, environmental).

Reference texts

M.D. Bjelland, D.R. Montello, A. Getis, Geografia umana, ed. italiana a cura di E. Squarcina e V. Pecorelli, Milano, Mc Graw Hill,
last edition.
D. Castagnoli, Green belt e altre espressioni di verde urbano. La tutela naturalistica nelle città europee, Bologna Pàtron, 2019.

Educational objectives

To achieve satisfactory knowledge of general and human geography in particular; know how to apply these concepts to the study of territorial assets (monumental and architectural, environmental, landscape.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons, projections

Learning verification modality

A written test with open questions (about three questions with answers each of fifteen lines) and oral on the same topics of the course.

Extended program

Territorial characteristics of the population: distribution and density, natural movement, short and long range migrations. Economic sectors and their modeling. The relationship between man and the environment in its many forms. The concept of cultural heritage. Capitalization. Territorial enhancement through national and international regulations and recognitions. Perception and planning of the inhabited territory.