GEOGRAPHY
cod. 00455

Academic year 2015/16
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Geografia (M-GGR/01)
Field
Discipline geografiche e antropologiche
Type of training activity
Basic
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

Understanding of theoretical foundations and methods of investigation of human geography.
Acquisition of the main tools for the interpretation of Italian landscapes, their conservation and management.

Prerequisites

Students must have achieved a sufficient historical and geographical training in the previous curriculum.

Course unit content

This course aims to provide students with the fundamental knowledge of Human Geography: nodal concepts, sources and methods of investigation. The second part of the course will be dedicated to the critical issues of the landscape, from an historical, social and prescriptive point of view, with particular attention to the relationship between agriculture, local production and environment.

Full programme

Available at: http://carlogemignani.altervista.org/.

Bibliography

Lecture notes available at: https://elly.lass.unipr.it/

Agnoletti M., Caratteristiche e stato di conservazione
del paesaggio storico, in Agnoletti M. (a cura di), Paesaggi rurali storici. Per un catalogo nazionale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011, pp. 5-103;

Magnaghi A., Il ruolo dei paesaggi rurali storici
nella pianificazione territoriale, in Agnoletti M. (a cura di), Paesaggi rurali storici. Per un catalogo nazionale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011, pp. 111-120;

Cevasco R., Moreno D., Paesaggi rurali: alle radici
storiche della biodiversità, in Agnoletti M. (a cura di), Paesaggi rurali storici. Per un catalogo nazionale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011, pp. 121-132;

Settis S., Paesaggio Costituzione cemento. La battaglia per l'ambiente contro il degrado civile, Torino, Einaudi, 2010;

Full text of the European Landscape Convention, available at: http://www.convenzioneeuropeapaesaggio.beniculturali.it/uploads/2010_10_12_11_22_02.pdf.

Teaching methods

Lectures. The lessons will be integrated by Laboratorio di lettura e analisi storico-geografica del paesaggio. Rules of conduct will be discussed during the first part of the course.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written examination.

Other information

Students will use Laboratorio di lettura e analisi storico-geografica del paesaggio as supplementary teaching activities. Rules of conduct will be discussed during the first part of the course.