Syllabus
1. Development and position of socio-economic geography discipline
2. Geographical position and location
3. Methods of socio-economic geography
4. Scale, hierarchy, core-periphery
5. Regional differentiation and unevenness
6. Regionalization
7. Current tendencies of economic development
8. Transport, mobility, accessibility
9. Settlement geography
10. Geography of population
11. Migration
12. Local processes and problems
13. Discussion seminar
Annotation
The course is focused on basic topics and problems of social and economic geography for specialists in education in geography. Core concepts, processes and trends in social and economic geography are discussed.
The lecture is based on the presentation of key general trends, elaboration of the topic on a specific example in a selected region and generalisation of trends for typologically or regionally related territories, regions, places. Different geographic scales of monitoring from global, regional to local levels are taken into account.
The course consists of morning lecture and afternoon seminar focused on use of themes in secondary school education of Geography. Follow-up exercises are focused on acquiring skills in the application of theoretical and methodological knowledge and their use in teaching practice.
The main emphasis is placed on individual and team work, analytical, synthetic, cartographic and presentation skills. Graduates use selected terminology with understanding, can process and interpret data and find connections between them, critically assess data sources and evaluation results, explain the context of problems of socio-economic and socio-cultural nature at different geographical scale levels.