Ateneo - UPO

AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY

ATTENDING STUDENTS:
- E-learning lessons and documents uploaded on "DIR" digital teaching platform;
- Gino De Vecchis, Edoardo Boria, Manuale di geografia, Roma, Carocci editore, 2022 (chapters from 3 to 6 included).

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS
The student who intends to take the exam as NOT attending will bring the following program:
1) Gino De Vecchis, Edoardo Boria, Manuale di geografia, Roma, Carocci editore, 2022 (chapters from 1 to 8 included)
2) Angela Asole, Gabriella Arena, Cosimo Palagiano, Cartografia e territorio nei secoli, Roma, Carocci editore, 2020.

The student will be able to distinguish and recognize the main characteristics of the social and economic organization of the earth surface; he/she will also be able to use the basic geographical concepts to orient himself/herself in the interpretation of the territory.
The course aims to enable the student to analyze the main characteristics and dynamics of the territory and, in the most advanced cases, to produce new solutions and use the theoretical knowledge acquired appropriately. The measurement of the mentioned objectives will be possible during the examination.

Basic geographical knowledge at the high-school level.

Lezioni frontali, in aula e lezioni itineranti nello spazio urbano vercellese completate da immagini e audio (powerpoint), link a documenti su casi di studio; discussioni in aula e nella piattaforma didattica d'Ateneo DIR - Didattica In Rete.

This course and Human Geography (scheduled for II year full-time) give 12 credits in the M - GGR / 01 sector. These credits are essential for access to teaching in secondary school.

Written test consisting of six open questions (1-hour examination). The skills in identifying and describing the main characteristics of the local and global territorial dynamics are tested through the open questions, in which students have to identify and describe the main principle of sustainable development and different territorial phenomena from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The skills in expressing judges and comments are tested through the answers to the open questions. Students are requested to comment and compare different phenomena in written production. The skills in studying in a proper way are tested through the answers to the given questions. Students should show their competence in linking different issues together and demonstrate that they have read and studied the lecture notes (student attending lessons) or the suggested bibliography (student not attending lessons).

Starting from an overview of the historical development of geography and cartography and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century international geographical thought, the course will analyze the man-environment relationship, with the related environmental problems. The second part of the course will focus on the analysis of the influence that the cultural factors, the socio-historical factors and the political-economic factors have on the territorial asset.

This course aims to offer an understanding of the evolution of the geographical thought and the main types of territorial organization.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Knowledge of the historical development of the international geographical thought (nineteenth and first part of the twentieth-century);
- Knowledge of the man-environment relationship, with the related environmental problems;
- Knowledge of the influence that the cultural, socio-historical and political-economic factors have on the territorial asset.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Ability to understand the connections between texts and geographical contexts, using the critical and methodological tools appropriate to the analysis;
- Ability to use the appropriate lexicon to communicate - clearly and effectively - knowledge, information and opinions related to the topics dealt with.