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Wersja polska

Course code: IPS10054o11
Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Economic geography
Major: Land Management
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr Marek Furmankiewicz
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English.

Learning outcomes: The student after course should be aquitanced with theory of economic geography, with base issues connected with economic geography and with current trends of spatial structures changes in World, Europe and Poland.

Competences: The student after course will be able to do methodical research on given phenomenon concentration, to delimitate the area of service centre influence, to research on the structure of some phenomenon and to valuate documents connected with nature protection.

Prerequisites: none

Course content: The introduction to economic geography. The environmental resources. The raw materials and energetics. The population and settlement. The land use and agriculture. Industry and technopolies. Transportation and communication. Services. Globalisation and international organisations. The economic differentiation in the world. Sustainable development. The human influence on environment. The chosen issues of Polish economy.

Recommended literature: Domański R., Zasady geografii społeczno-ekonomicznej, Warszawa-Poznań 1995; Domański R., Teoretyczne podstawy geografii ekonomicznej, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne, Warszawa 1982; Michałków I., Zarys geografii ekonomicznej, Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne Dialog 2000; Kuciński K., Geografia ekonomiczna. Zarys teoretyczny, Warszawa 1994; Dobosiewicz Z., Olszewski T., Geografia ekonomiczna świata, Warszawa 1994.

Assessment methods: the independent evaluation of practical training and the theoretical knowledge, compulsory practical training acceptation before examination, test examination, minimum 50% of knowledge to pass.

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