Code: | GEOGR030 | Acronym: | GGEM |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Geography |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Geography |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Geography |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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GEOGR | 64 | GEOGR - Study Plan | 2 | - | 6 | 56 | 162 |
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-Research, process and interpret the main sources of information used in the analysis of rural spaces, particularly statistical, documental and bibliographic information. -Apprehend the typological diversity of world areas and their particularities. -Understand some of the problems of the contemporary world, its diversity and mutability. -Understand places and regions as components in a global system and their local manifestations. -Comprehend the value of different cultures and societies. -Understand the interactions between global processes and their local manifestations. -Relate the capacity of transformation of spatial organisation with differing degrees of scientific and technological development. -Develop team work, share ideas, methods and strategies, in an environment of interactivity, with a view to developing competences in defining intervention strategies at different scales.
- Search, process and interpret, judiciously, the main sources of information used in spatial analysis (statistical, documentary and bibliographic)
- Percecionar the typological diversity of world space and its foundations.
- To understand some of the problems of the contemporary world, its diversity and mutability.
- Perceive places and regions as part of a global system changing.
- Capturing the value of different cultures and societies.
- Understanding the interplay between global processes and their local manifestations.
- Relate the processing capacity of the spatial organization with different degrees of scientific and technological development
- Working as a team, sharing ideas, methods and strategies, a large interactive environment
- Develop skills aimed at defining intervention strategies suatentável at different scales.
- Seizure of methodologies and fundamental theoretical frameworks
- Questioning the sustainability / revitalization of several spaces in integrated management perspective
1.1 Some introductory notes
1.2. Background geopolitical and geostrategic: different phases and its foundations
1.3. The strengthening of globalization and the new territorial dynamics: main flows and actors in the changing environment
1.4. The interaction between global processes and their local manifestations
1.5. Intervention strategies tend to a sustainable world
2.1. The natural dynamics and their impacts
2.2- territorial diversity and the different societies and cultures
2.3. Spaces flows and global actors: global cities and macro-regions
2.4. The prevalence of socio-economic inequalities: the north-south contrast
2.5. Natural resources and energy sources that strategic positioning?
2.6. Natural hazards and the resilience of societies.
- Theoretical and practical classes. - The theoretical-practical component in the first phase of classes will focus on the programme’s contents, using audiovisual aids; a constructive learning environment will be fostered. - Practical classes in which students can apply the knowledge acquired and in work groups. - The assignments aim to explore different subjects and the most pressing world problems and will be developed with tutorial supervision. -The student will acquire methodological, technical, scientific and relational skills in order to develop a project, questioning reality and being propositive in resolving/minimising the various problems of world regions.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 60,00 |
Participação presencial | 5,00 |
Trabalho de campo | 5,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 30,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese | 20,00 |
Estudo autónomo | 42,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 56,00 |
Trabalho de campo | 10,00 |
Trabalho de investigação | 34,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
Minimum of 75% of class attendance, except in the cases foreseen in the regulations in force The student must obtain a grade of at least 9.5 to pass the subject. Attendance is compulsory in both theoretical, practical and tutorial classes, and is an integral part of assessment.
Minimum of 75% of class attendance, except in the cases foreseen in the regulations in force Final marks result from the exam on theoretical contents, together with marks obtained in the practical assignment developed throughout the semester. The practical marks will only be considered if the students pass the theoretical part. The practical part includes fieldwork. Tutorials are clearly a fundamental part of assessment. The final average mark will be calculated as follows: - Theoretical component: 60% - Practical component: 30% - Oral presentation, debate, participation: 10%
Not applicable.
- In accordance with the regulations in force. - Exchange students can do an assignment on one of the themes instead of the exam. Students will be tutored by the teacher. - Student workers have to do a practical assignment as part of their assessment, under tutorial supervision.
- In accordance with the regulations in force.
Language of Instruction: Portuguese Bibliography: English, French, Spanish and Portuguese