Ateneo - UPO

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY FOR THE STUDY OF CURRENT WORLD PROBLEMS.

ATTENDING STUDENTS:
- E-learning lessons and documents uploaded on "DIR" digital teaching platform.
- Greiner A.L., Dematteis G., Lanza C., Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, Quarta edizione a cura di A. Vanolo, Torino, UTET Università; 2023 (chapters 5 and 11)..

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS - BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN LITERATURE
1) Gino De Vecchis, Edoardo Boria, Manuale di geografia, Roma, Carocci editore, 2022 (chapters from 9 to 15 included)
2) Aime M., Papotti D. (edited by), Piccolo lessico della diversità, Treviso, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, 2018.

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS – OTHER BACHELOR’S DEGREES AND FREESTANDING COURSES
1) Greiner A.L., Dematteis G., Lanza C., Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, Quarta edizione a cura di A. Vanolo, Torino, UTET Università; 2023 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11)
2) Aime M., Papotti D. (edited by), Piccolo lessico della diversità, Treviso, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, 2018.

The student will be able to learn cognitive maps to understand the role of humanity in shaping the organization of the territory, starting from the near dimension of everyday places and later addressing far case studies, with a specific attention towards the construction of the concepts of “elsewhere” and “other”.
The course aims to enable the student to analyze the role of humans in the organization of the territory and to suggest 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.

Lectures (in class lessons and itinerant in Vercelli region), slides, powerpoint presentations, materials and link on case studies and discussions in class and in the DIR platform.

This course and Geography A (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 are tested through the open questions that evaluate the capacity of students to identify and understand the role of humanity in shaping the organization of the territory, starting from the near dimension of everyday places and later addressing far case studies, with a specific attention towards the construction of the concepts of “elsewhere” and “other”. 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).

Human geography in today’s world.
Cultural geography and globalisation.
Territories, “geographies”, citizenship.
Urban geography and political geography.
The other and the elsewhere.
Tourism and authenticity.

This course aims to offer an understanding of the contemporary world geography and the main differences among cities and countryside.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Knowledge of cultural geography and globalisation;
- Knowledge of the main differences between territories, “geographies”, citizenship;
- Knowledge of cities and countryside;
- Knowledge of the other and the elsewhere, tourism and authenticity ;
- Critical understanding of the topics studied.

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.