| Course title | Methods and Application of Historical Geography |
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| Course code | KHI/V049 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 6 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. Introduction and assignments 2. Historical geography and environmental history 3. Historical geography as applied discipline 4. Documentary data / proxies 5. Quantitative analyses of documentary data 6. Map sources in historical geography 7. Narrative sources and narrative analyses 8. Iconographic data 9. Media sources 10. Invited lecture / excursion 11.?13. Presentation and discussion of semestral projects
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The aim of the subject is to introduce students into spatial delineation and physical and geographic conditioning of some historical processes and phenomena. Emphasis is not only laid on the typology of sources but also on the methods of historical geography. Students should subsequently reflect the interdisciplinary character of historical geography and its overlaps with other historical and auxiliary historical sciences (historical demography, archaeology, history of settlement, history of law, economic history and cartography). The subject should thus provide students with geographic context in the framework of their knowledge hitherto acquired in other courses. The course mainly focuses on historical geography of the Czech lands from Middle Ages to the 20th century and will selectively include issues of wider Central Europe and the world. Formally, the lectures focus on theory while the subsequent seminars mainly pay attention to particular employing of sources and the possibilities of their interpretation. The education also mediates elementary knowledge of historical and geographic research in several subject circles.
Students understand elementary methodological processes of historical geography. They can describe the relation between historical geography and other disciplines the outcomes and methods of which have hitherto been employed by historical geography. They can categorize the basic sources of historical geography and interpret map materials dating to various periods. Using a source basis, they can evaluate historical and geographic development on the level of a region and characterize this development in the Czech lands from Middle Ages to the 20th century. They are also familiar with the historical development of cultural landscape. |
| Prerequisites |
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None
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
Students are required to actively participate in education in the form of fulfilling continuously assigned tasks and to submit in a written form successful solutions to six tasks based on the discussed subjects. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Cultural and Historical Regional Studies (A) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Documentation of Historical Memorials (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): Teaching of History for Secondary Schools (A14) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History with Education Emphasis (Two Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Middle School (Single Subject) (A14) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |