Unit GEOGRAPHY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP005961
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Fabio Fatichenti
- Teachers
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- Fabio Fatichenti
- Hours
- 72 ore - Fabio Fatichenti
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Storia, filosofia, psicologia, pedagogia, antropologia e geografia
- Academic discipline
- M-GGR/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian. The attendance to the classes is highly suggested to the international and Erasmus students who opt for this course. Upon request some didactic documents may be recommended in foreign languages too (English, French, Spanish). For any clarification please contact the teacher before the lessons start.
- Contents
- Basics of Geography.
The course is divided into three parts:
A) Physical Geography: Structure and dynamics of the Earth. Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Seismic and volcanic activity. Modeling the Earth surface. The history of the Earth: timeline of evolutionary history of life. Climate change.
B) Human, Economic and Political Geography: The world system. Globalization of the economy and articulation of the space-world. The local milieu. Transformations of production systems, industrial districts, multinationals corporations. Telecommunications in the global economy, telecommunications and territory: the digital divide. Population movements in time and space. Landscape. Region. The growth of cities. The resources, with particular reference to food and water. The protection and enhancement of the biodiversity. The development’s complex issue (growth, degrowth, sustainability). Political Geography and Geopolitics. The EU facing the challenges of the contemporary world.
C) The Topographic Map of Italy: introduction to the interpretation of topographic maps and other tools such as atlases, thematic maps, statistical data. - Reference texts
- Textbooks:
A & C: an Earth Science textbook for High School (for ex. LUPIA PALMIERI E., PAROTTO M., Il globo terrestre e la sua evoluzione, ed. blu, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2017, no chapters 1 & 7).
B: GREYNER A.L., DEMATTEIS G., LANZA C., Geografia umana, terza ed. a cura di A. Vanolo, Torino, UTET, 2019.
Others course’s materials will be indicated by the teacher during the lessons.
Suggested readings:
DE VECCHIS G., PASQUINELLI D’ALLEGRA D., PESARESI C., Didattica della geografia, Torino, UTET, 2020.
DE VECCHIS G., Insegnare Geografia. Teoria, metodi e pratiche, Torino, UTET, 2016.
LAVAGNA E., G. LUCARNO, P.M. RIGOBELLO, Geografia per insegnare. Idee e strumenti per la didattica, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2018.
BARTALETTI F., Geografia. Teoria e prassi, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, last ed.
LAVAGNA E., LUCARNO G., Geocartografia. Guida alla lettura delle carte geotopografiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2014.
MOLINARI M., Atlante del mondo che cambia. Le mappe che spiegano le sfide del nostro tempo, Milano, Rizzoli, 2020. - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course the student knows: the main natural processes that have shaped and still shape the Earth's surface; the main issues of human, economic and political Geography; the natural and human components of a landscape; the graphical representations, cartographic representations and satellite images, and how to use them in an educational context, classroom or laboratory; the problems and the prospects of contemporary world; the basics of sustainable development and how to apply them in the context of environmental education and citizenship education.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know how to tackle the course, students must have the basic notions of the environmental context and organization of the territory, either in physical term and regarding the human activities related to it (these are notions that the student should have already acknowledged in his/her school curriculum). Basic requirement is also the possession of knowledge in Regional Geography.
- Teaching methods
- The course is usually organized as follows:
- lectures will deal all the issues of the course; - guided surveys and tutorials at Cartographic Laboratory, Via del Verzaro 49. - Other information
- Attendance is recommended. Non-attending students must study:
LUPIA PALMIERI E., PAROTTO M., Il globo terrestre e la sua evoluzione, ed. blu, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2017.
GREYNER A.L., DEMATTEIS G., LANZA C., Geografia umana, terza ed. a cura di A. Vanolo, Torino, UTET, 2019. - Learning verification modality
- The exam includes a written test lasting two hours, usually of two/three open questions, on the topics discussed during the course and in-depth on the texts studied. The test verifies the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis’ skills achieved by the student. A subsequent short oral test will verify student’s communicational skills.
- Extended program
- A) Physical Geography: Structure and dynamics of the Earth. Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Seismic and volcanic activity. Modeling the Earth surface. The history of the Earth: timeline of evolutionary history of life. Climate change.
B) Human, Economic and Political Geography: The world system. Globalization of the economy and articulation of the space-world. The local milieu. Transformations of production systems, industrial districts, multinationals corporations. Telecommunications in the global economy, telecommunications and territory: the digital divide. Population movements in time and space. Landscape. Region. The growth of cities. The resources, with particular reference to food and water. The development’s complex issue (growth, degrowth, sustainability). Political Geography and Geopolitics. The EU facing the challenges of the contemporary world.
C) The Topographic Map of Italy: introduction to the interpretation of topographic maps and other tools such as atlases, thematic maps, statistical data.