Behavioral geography

Course: Economic Geography

Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet

Title
Behavioral geography
Code
Ок 39.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
8 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
This academic discipline is aimed at achieving the following knowledge, skills and general and special competencies by students: applying understanding and own understanding of basic worldview concepts and principles, basic knowledge of the theory of behavioral and imaginary geography in various research developments of a professional direction; forming skills and abilities to apply knowledge of theories, paradigms, concepts and principles specific to geographical sciences in accordance with the specializations of the OP and understanding the main provisions and theses of existing concepts and theories of the interaction of nature and society and using the results of the analysis of models of human/society behavior in various, factorial spaces in working projects of the professional sphere of activity of geographers.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Successful completion of basic and specialized courses: "Social Geography", "Geographical and Regional Studies", "Economic Geography", "Geography of Population and Settlement", "Urban Geography", "Social Geography", Geography of Culture and Religion". 2. Knowledge of the theoretical foundations of basic geographical theories and concepts. 3. Knowledge and understanding of the basic spatial-temporal patterns of relationships and relations in the "man - environment" system.
Course content
This academic discipline is aimed at revealing the concept of territoriality (spatiality) of human behavior, at clarifying the mechanisms of human perception of the environment (human communities) and the formation of human behavioral responses to external conditions, at studying the factors of forming human spatial ideas about territories and places and using these ideas in applied geographical research (modeling and territorial planning, urban planning and territorial management, protected areas, recreation and leisure, political and electoral behavior, urban planning), at clarifying the main criteria of social behavior as the main regulators of social and personal behavior, such as: normative systems of law, values, needs and motives, etc. The theoretical and practical components of the course are developed with an emphasis on the formation of skills and abilities for the future professional activity of the Bachelor of Geography (Economic Geography), which is carried out both in the natural environment and in the anthropogenically modified one.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Geocultural branding of territories – Access mode - http://www.russ.ru/layout/set/print/pole/Geokul-turnyj-brending-territorij-konceptual-nye- osnovy 2. Grodzinsky M.D. Landscape cognition: place and space: in 2 vols. – Kyiv: 2005 3. Grodzinsky M.D., Savytska O.V. Landscape aesthetics: a textbook. – Kyiv: VPC Kyiv University, 2005. – 183 p. 4. Dolishniy M., Hryniv L. Socio-ecological function of regional economy // Bulletin of the NAS of Ukraine. — 2001. — No. 3. — P. 23-25.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures and seminars, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
The level of achievement of all planned learning outcomes is determined by the results of tests, seminar and project tasks, independent work and its presentation, exam. Semester assessment: 1. Tests and test tasks: RN 1.1-1.7 (knowledge) 20 points/5 points. 2. Work in seminars, project tasks: RN 2.1-2.6,4 (knowledge and skills) 30 points/20 points. 3. Independent work, project tasks, tests: RN 3.4 (communication, autonomy and responsibility) 10 points/5 points. 4. Exam: RN 1.1-1.7 (knowledge), RN 4 (autonomy and responsibility) 40 points/30 points The final assessment is carried out in the form of a written exam.
Language of instruction
In Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Tetiana Gennadyivna Kupach
Geography of Ukraine
heohrafichnyi fakultet

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Geography of Ukraine
heohrafichnyi fakultet