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 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- 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
- The course is in Italian language. 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. The climate and the climate emergency.
B) Human, Economic and Political Geography: The world system. Globalization of the economy and articulation of the space-world. The local milieu. 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).
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: resources by the teacher available on Unistudium (https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php), that can be integrated by 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).
B: GREYNER A.L., DEMATTEIS G., LANZA C., Geografia umana, quarta ed. a cura di A. Vanolo, Torino, UTET, 2023.
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.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - 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.
Students with disabilities and/or with DSA, after consultation with the lecturer, may request any educational materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lectures, as well as the use of other technological facilitation tools in the study phase. For general information, see the University Services on page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa e mettersi in contatto con la Referente per il Dipartimento (prof.ssa A. Di Pilla). - Other information
- Attendance is recommended. After asking the teacher for information, 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, quarta ed. a cura di A. Vanolo, Torino, UTET, 2023.
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Learning verification modality
- The examination consists of a written test lasting two hours, with multiple-choice questions and one/two open-ended questions, and is related to the topics covered during the course and explored in depth on the texts studied. The test serves to ascertain the level of knowledge and the ability to comprehend and synthesize achieved by the student; the student's ability to put what he or she has acquired into written form with method and propriety of language will also be assessed.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - 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. The climate and the climate emergency.
B) Human, Economic and Political Geography: The world system. Globalization of the economy and articulation of the space-world. The local milieu. 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).
C) The Topographic Map of Italy: introduction to the interpretation of topographic maps and other tools such as atlases, thematic maps, statistical data. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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