MZ300E011 Human Geography Research in Czechia I

Course for ERASMUS students: winter term 2023–2024; 7 ECTS credits

M (Velká mineralogická room), Albertov 6, 2nd floor (Geology) – just almost opposite(right) to the main staircase

Tuesdays (October 3^th 2023 – January 23^th 2024) 13:10-14:45

RNDr. Jiří Vágner, Ph.D. (vagner@natur.cuni.cz)

doc. RNDr. Martin Ouředníček, Ph.D. (slamak@natur.cuni.cz)

Annotation:

This course covers selected topics from the human geography of Czechia and presents an introduction of research teams activities at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (see also https://www.natur.cuni.cz/geography/department-of-social-geography-and-regional-development/research/research-teams.

The introductory part will provide a historical background and the discussion of the position of Czechia within Europe. Then, the course will cover the following topics: urban and regional systems, internal and international migration, economic geography (focused mostly on agriculture and the service sector, including tourism), urban geography, including the post-communist urban transition of Prague, health geography and elections in Czechia. Each student will be required to select a supervisor by 17 October (according to his/her field of interest), prepare a three-page review of three professional articles (by 21 November) and a 15-page paper on a selected topic under the tutorship of participant teachers (by 9 January) with the presentation (.ppt) followed 16 January. Based on the paper, each student will give a ten minute Power Point presentation during the final class. Students are required to attend at least eight lectures and the final class with a presentation.

Time schedule of lectures

3. 10. 2023 Introduction to the course (Jiří Vágner, Martin Ouředníček)

10. 10. 2023 Historical and Cultural Geography (Zdeněk Kučera)

17. 10. 2023 Regional and Political Geography (Libor Jelen)

24. 10. 2023 Agriculture and Rural Space of Czechia (Radim Perlín)

31. 10. 2023 Post-communist City: Changes in the Spatial Structure of Prague (Luděk Sýkora)

7. 11. 2023 Urbanisation and Suburbanisation Processes in Czechia (Martin Ouředníček)

14. 11. 2023 Competitiveness and regional development in Czechia: perspective of contemporary approaches in economic geography (Viktor Květoň)

21. 11. 2023 time for elaboration of critical reviews (no lecture)

28. 11. 2023 Tourism in Czechia and Urban Tourism in Prague (Jiří Vágner, Veronika Marianovská)

15.12.2023 Geography of Elections (Tomáš Kostelecký)

12. 12. 2023 Health Geography of Czechia (Ivana Kulhánová)

19.12.2023 Migration Geography (Dušan Drbohlav)

16. 1. 2024 + 23. 1. 2024 Presentations of essays and discussion (Jiří Vágner, Martin Ouředníček et al.)