Ateneo - UPO

Themes of human economic, geography and regional.

The teaching material (slides end eventual additional material) provided in the web page at the URL: http://moodle.eco.unipmn.it/ . The texts are:
Alyson L. Greiner, Carla Lanza e Giuseppe Dematteis, Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, quarta edizione a cura di Alberto Vanolo, UTET, Milano, 2023.

The course aims to provide basic geographical knowledge, methodological and content-related, in preparation for the analysis and interpretation of spatial organization, as well as the conditions.
In particular, it provides the essential principles of the systemic approach and the main theoretical and practical criteria to analyse and represent the Earth surface - and the regions in which it is articulated - as a product of human activity.
The course also provides the basis to understand territorial organizations, at urban, regional and national levels, as well as the key interactions between the physical, social and economic environment, allowing interpreting geographic differentiation of the relationship between man and nature as an expression of different social relations. Finally, more tourist case studies are presented to link basic geographical knowledge and the competences of the degree course.

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Lectures and seminars

Further information is available on the web page of the course at the URL: https://eco.dir.unipmn.it/

The exam is written (about an hour) divided into two parts: the first is a test with multiple choice questions, to understand the basic concepts presented during the course (one third of the grade); the second is with open questions to know the student’s critical skills (two-third) . There are two intermediate tests, the first after 32 hours and the second at the end of the course. The final mark will be the average of the marks obtained in the interim tests.

The course is divided into two parts and in lessons of two hours, whose contents are: definitions and contents of Geography .The Earth as a system. Tools for geographic analysis. The Earth’s surface as a differentiated space: territorial values. Population, migration and culture. The city: definitions and functions. Virtual networks and urban organization of global space. Urban and rural areas. Infrastructures and services. Urban environment and landscape. The world-system and main theories of development. GDP and other social and economic indicators. The production systems: Fordism and post-Fordism. The new enterprise location strategies: internationalization and relocation. Globalization. Economic network and global governance.

The course provides the basic geographic knowledge to the analysis and interpretation of the territorial organizatio and to link of the relations between theoretical and practical criteria to analise the space. The course provides ability to understand the connections between the territorial organization (regional and national levels) and the social and economic environment. The inter-disciplinary skills concern to use the critical and methodological tools appropriate to the analysis of the texts considered.