Geomorphology and Environmental Tourism
heohrafichnyi fakultet
            Name
        
        
            Geomorphology and Environmental Tourism
        
    
            Program code
        
        
            31104
        
    
            Qualification awarded
        
        
            Bachelor
        
    
            Length of programme
        
        
4 years        
    
            Number of credits
        
        
            240
        
    
            level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework 
        
        
            6
        
    
            Qualification level
        
        
            First (Bachelor)                                  
        
    
            Discipline
        
        
            Natural sciences
        
    
            Speciality
        
        
KnowledgeField EN        
    
            Specific admission requirements
        
        
Complete general secondary education 
        
    
            Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning
        
        
            
Diploma of secondary education 
        
    
            Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements
        
        
            On the basis of professional mastery of competencies provided by the block of disciplines of professional orientation (minimum required criteria: the level of mastery of the block of disciplines of professional orientation with grades not less than 75 points, grade for internship in the specialty not less than 75 points, receiving a score of not less than 75 points for the complex qualification exam; as well as the defense of qualifying work with a score of at least 75 points)
        
    
            Programme learning outcomes
        
        
            Р01.Know, understand and be able to use in practice the basic concepts of the theory of geomorphology, the organization of naturally cognitive tourism, as well as related sciences.
P02. Know and understand the main types of geographical activities, their division in general and in particular in the field of geomorphology and naturally cognitive tourism.
P03. Explain the features of the geographical space organization depending on the relief, modern and ancient geomorphogenesis of the territory.
P04. Analyze the geographical potential of the territory in connection with the geomorphological situation, as well as for the organization and development of naturally cognitive tourism.
P05. Collect, process and analyze information in the field of geographical sciences, in particular to solve problems of geomorphology, palaeogeography and naturally cognitive tourism.
P06. Use information technologies, cartographic and geoinformation models in the study of processes of relief formation and development, organization and functioning of field of the naturally cognitive tourism.
P07. Determine the main characteristics, processes, history and composition of the landscape sphere in general and geomorphosystems in particular.
P08. Apply models, methods of physics, chemistry, geology, ecology, mathematics, information technology, etc. in the study of processes of relief formation and development, individual objects and processes of the geosphere, for the organization and functioning of naturally cognitive tourism.
P09. Analyze the composition and structure of natural- and sociospheres, which are the part of the subject area of geomorphology and naturally cognitive tourism at different spatial and temporal levels.
P10. Know the goals of sustainable development and opportunities for their achievement in the professional field of geomorphology and naturally cognitive tourism, including in Ukraine.
P11. Adhere to the moral and ethical aspects of research, honesty, professional code of behavior.
P12. Apply skills of productive communication with consumers of nature tourism services.
P13. Use field and laboratory research methods to analyze the morphology, genesis, age and dynamics of the relief, as well as for evaluation of the natural tourism potential of the territory.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
Full-time form        
    
            Examination regulations and grading scale
        
        
            Written and oral exams, tests, current control (surveys, presentations, tests, modular control tests), differentiated tests, advocacy of practice reports or coursework or bachelor's thesis, certification exam.
        
    
            Оbligatory or optional mobility windows (if applicable)
        
        
            Work placement
        
        
            1.Complex discipline. Educational practice  based on field natural-geographical research. 2. Training practice on methods of acquiring geographical information. 3. Training practice on methods of processing geographical information. 4. Educational Professionally Orientated Field Practice. 5. Training practice on methods of dissemination of geographical information. 6. Internship
        
    
            Work-based learning
        
        
            Student-centered problem-oriented learning, which is conducted in the form of lectures, seminars, practical classes, coursework, independent work based on textbooks and notes, consultations with teachers, teaching and production practices, bachelor's thesis in the last year.
        
    
                    Director of the course
                
                 
                
                         Natalia 
                        Petrivna
                        Gerasimenko
                    
                    
                        Department of Earth Science and Geomorphology 
heohrafichnyi fakultet
                heohrafichnyi fakultet
            Occupational profiles of graduates
        
        
            Employment in excursion and tourism companies; in design and survey, research organizations; in production and research institutions of the Ukrainian Geological Survey; in emergencies and ecological safety institutions and organizations; in nature conservation institutions.
        
    
            Access to further studies
        
        
            They have the right to receive education at the second (master's degree) level of higher education and may acquire additional qualifications in the adult education system.
        
    Subjects
As part of the curriculum, students study the following disciplines
                        Structural geomorphology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 36	,
                        
                    
                
                        Remote sensing of the earth
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 32,
                        
                    
                
                        Dynamic geomorphology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 31,
                        
                    
                
                        Morphometric analysis of relief
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.06	,
                        
                    
                
                        Engineering, Survey, and Environmental Geomorphology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 34,
                        
                    
                
                        Classification and passportization of the nature tourism objects 
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.04,
                        
                    
                
                        Sociology
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 3.03.01	,
                        
                    
                
                        Selected sections of labour law and bases of business
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 23	,
                        
                    
                
                        Socio-political studies
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 24,
                        
                    
                
                        Training practice on methods of dissemination of geographical information
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 25	,
                        
                    
                
                        Internship
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 26,
                        
                    
                
                        Urbogeomorphology 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 35,
                        
                    
                
                        The basis of GIS-cartography 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 33,
                        
                    
                
                        Methods of geomorphological research
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.05,
                        
                    
                
                        Рhilosophy
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 27	,
                        
                    
                
                        Relief and geological structure of Ukraine 
                    
                    
                        Code:  ОК 37	,
                        
                    
                
                        Soils of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 38,
                        
                    
                
                        Climate and surface waters of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК.39,
                        
                    
                
                        Biogeography of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 41,
                        
                    
                
                        Landscapes of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 42,
                        
                    
                
                        History of development of planetary relief 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 43,
                        
                    
                
                        Qualifying undergraduate coursework for professional direction
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 44 ,
                        
                    
                
                        Nature touristic attractions of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.9,
                        
                    
                
                        Rehabilitation of natural objects 
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.7,
                        
                    
                
                        Legal and economical bases of nature tourism 
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.13,
                        
                    
                
                        Lithological-petrographical below relief
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.03,
                        
                    
                
                        Stone in architecture and art
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.08,
                        
                    
                
                        Rehabilitation of natural objects
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.07,
                        
                    
                
                        Pedagogy
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 3.4.1,
                        
                    
                
                        Paleogeography of anthropogenic and backgrounds of geoarcheology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 37,
                        
                    
                
                        Psychology
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 3.5.1,
                        
                    
                
                        Marine geomorphology
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.10,
                        
                    
                
                        Designing nature touristic schemes 
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.12,
                        
                    
                
                        Special topics on nature tourism 
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.11,