ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
1. To get wide knowledge of the land space and the life of men on the earth.
2. To understand and to explain the functioning of the different territories aat different scales, as well as human societies.
3. To understand the relations between the environment and human system.
4. To know the elements and to understand the processes that explains the functioning of the landscape, from the point of view of the geographical environment.
5. To understand the dimension time-space of the phenomena.
6. To initiate to the mapping analysis techniques and the elaboration and interpretation of graphics and diagrams of basic use in geography.
7. To study the pillar of geography as a social science, its relations with other sciences, its basic concepts and the sources used in the geographical analysis.
1. Introduction to geography: key concepts and evolution.
2. Population: dynamics and trends at different scales.
3. The environment: resources and challenges.
4. The city and the urban system.
5. The rural world in transformation.
6. Art as an element of the landscape and the foundation of cultural identity.
Basic Bibliography
FARINÓS, J., OLCINA CANTOS, J. (Coords.) (2017). Geografía regional de España. València, Universitat de València, Tirant Humanidades.
FERNÁNDEZ CUESTA, G. (Coord.) (2019). Atlas de Geografía Humana de España. Madrid, Paraninfo.
HIERNAUX, D., LINDÓN, A. (Coords.) (2006). Tratado de Geografía Humana. México, Anthropos.
HOLT JENSEN, A. (1992). Geografía. Historia y conceptos. Barcelona. Vicens Vives.
LÓPEZ PALOMEQUE, F., PLAZA GUTIÉRREZ, J.I. (Coords.) (2019). Geografía de Europa. Estructura, procesos y dinámicas territoriales. Valencia, Tirant Humanidades.
MATA, R., SANZ, C. (Corods.) (2003). Atlas de los paisajes de España, Madrid, Ministerio de Medioambiente.
MURPHY, A. (2018). Geografía: Por qué importa?. Madrid, Alianza Editorial.
NOGUÉ, J.; ROMERO, J. (Coords.) (2006). Las otras geografías. Valencia, Tirant Lo Blanch.
OBSERVATORIO DEL PAISAJE (2006). Prototipus de catàleg de paisatge. Documento de trabajo, Olot y Barcelona. http://www.catpaisatge.net/fitxers/Prototipus2006.pdf
ORTEGA VALCÁRCEL, J. (2000). Los horizontes de la Geografía: teoría de la Geografía. Barcelona, Ariel.
ROGER, A. (2007). Breve tratado del paisaje. Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva.
ROMERO, J. (Coord.) (2007). Geografía humana. Procesos, riesgos e incertidumbres en un mundo globalizado. Barcelona, Ariel.
ROMERO, J. (Coord.) (2016). Geografía humana de España. València, Universitat de València, Tirant Humanidades.
ROMERO, J. (Coord.) (2007). Geografía Humana. Barcelona, Ariel, 2ª ed.
ZÁRATE MARTÍN, M.A.; RUBIO BENITO, M.T. (2006). Geografía Humana. Sociedad, economía y territorio. Madrid, Editorial Universitaria ramón Areces.
ZÁRATE, M.; RUBIO, M. (2005). Geografía Humana. Madrid, Ed. Ramón Areces.
ZÁRATE, M.; RUBIO, M. (2006). Glosario y prácticas de Geografía Humana. Madrid, Ed. Ramón Areces
Further Readings
BAILLY, A., BÉGUIN, H. (2001). Introduction à la gèographie humaine. París, Armand Colin, 8ª ed.
CIATTONI, A., Veyret, Y. (2003). Les Fondamentaux de la géographie. Armand Colin. Paris.
HAGGETT, P. (1983). Geography: A Modern Synthesis. Harper & Row. New York. (trad. cast.: Geografía. Una síntesis moderna. Omega. Barcelona, 1988).
HOLLOWAY, S.L., RICE, S.P., VALENTINE, G. (2003). Key concepts in Geography. Londres, Sage.
JOHNSTON, R., et al. (2000). The Dictionary of Human Geography. Oxford, Blackwell, 8ª ed.
MAYHEW, S. (1997). Dictionary of Geography. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
ROGERS, A., VILES, H.A. (Coords.) (2003). The Student´s Companion to Geography. Blackwell Publishers.
SEGRELLES, J. (Coord.) (2002). Geografía Humana. Alicante, Editorial Club Universitario.
DURING, R. (2010). Cultural Heritage Discourses and Europeanisation. Wageningen, Alterra.
HAWKINS, H. (2021). Geography, Art, Research. Artistic Research in Geohumanitites. New York, Routledge.
LEWIS, M.W., WIGEN, K.E. (1997). The Myth of Continents: a Critique of Metageography. Berkeley, University of California Press.
MARSHALL, T. (2020). El mundo explicado en 12 sencillos mapas. Barcelona, Editorial GeoPlaneta.
MUZAINI, H., MINCA, C. (2020). After heritage, critical perspectives on heritage from below. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar Publishing.
General:
- Capacity of organization and planning.
- Capacity of critic and self-critical reasoning.
- Capacity of analysis and synthesis.
- Capacity of information management: systematic collection, organization, selection and presentation of all kind of information.
- Knowledge of computer applied to the study field.
- To use efficiently the technologies of the information and communication.
- Knowledge of other cultures and customs. recognition of the diversity and multiculturalism.
- Abilities in the interpersonal relations. creativity. decision-making.
- Capacitating for the autonomous learning.
- Sensibility with the different social, environmental and cultural environments, paying special attention to the questions of gender, environment, the values of peace and pacific living and the non-discrimination by reasons of sex, race, religion, opinion and reasons of disability.
- To offer new uses and traditional knowledge.
- To have the ability to understand the language and the proposals of other experts.
Specific:
- To know, to understand and to interpret the territory.
- To interpret the environmental and physical environment with the social and human sphere.
- To combine a general approach with a specialized analysis.
- To interrelate the phenomena to different territorial scales.
- To explain the diversity of places, regions and locations.
- To understand the spatial relations.
- To analyze and to interpret the landscapes.
- To generate sensibility and interest for the territorial and environmental themes.
- To know the fundamentals of the territorial planning and to know how to interpret a document of territory order.
The course has no assigned teaching schedule for the 2025/26 academic year, so in-person classes are not included. Students will need to contact their instructors.
The assessment for the first and second opportunities consists of a knowledge and skills assessment test: on the date established by the Faculty of Geography and History, a final in-person assessment test will be held. It will count toward 100% of the final grade.
All hours corresponding to this subject will be personal work for the students.
Lucrezia Lopez
- Department
- Geography
- Area
- Regional Geographical Analysis
- lucrezia.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Ramon Lopez Rodriguez
- Department
- Geography
- Area
- Regional Geographical Analysis
- ramonlopez.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary supply professor for Special Services and others