Geography of Asia, Oceania, Australia

Course: Geography

Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet

Title
Geography of Asia, Oceania, Australia
Code
ОК.20
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
The goal of the discipline is to form students' ability to solve complex problems specialized tasks and practical problems in assessing socio-economic levels development of subregions and individual countries of the world, features of their territorial organization economy and have a holistic spatio-temporal view of modern socio-economic processes occurring in the world. Studying an academic discipline involves application modern theories and research methods of natural and social objects and processes in various countries of Asia, Oceania and Australia using a complex of interdisciplinary data and for conditions of insufficient information.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1) successful mastery of the school course "Geography", educational disciplines "Mathematical and statistical methods in geography", "Geography of the countries of Europe, North America", educational practice on methods of acquiring geographic information; 2) to be able to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze the peculiarities of natural and social processes in geographic envelopes, evaluate and ensure the quality of works, be able to implement comprehensive assessment and monitoring of resources, predict the development of geographical processes and phenomenon; 3) to know the theoretical foundations of social geography, location of production, population, natural resource potential.
Course content
The regularities and factors of the territorial organization of society and its constituents at the level of subregions of Asia, Oceania and Australia, geographic problems of spatial organizations of the regional economy. The peculiarities of the territorial are considered (international) division of labor, placement of productive forces within the studied regions, regional policy, territorial organization of production, geopolitics and geostrategy regions of the world, spatial socio-economic proportions, territorial socio- economic structures, transport and infrastructure networks and systems, as well as systems settlement within the regions of the world
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Безуглий В. В., Козинець С. В. Регіональна економічна та соціальна географія світу. К. : Видавничий центр “Академія”, 2007. 688 с. 2. Блій Г. де, Муллер П. Географія: світи, реґіони, концепти / Пер. з англ.; Передмова та розділ “Україна” О. І. Шаблія. К. : Либідь, 2004. 740 с. 3. Географічне країнознавство. Підручник: Я. Б. Олійник, Б. П. Яценко, О.О. Любіцева та ін.; за наук. ред. проф. Я. Б. Олійника, Б. П. Яценка. – К.: ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2015. 911 с. 4. Кузик С. Регіональна економічна і соціальна географія світу (розвинені країни) : навч. посібник / С. Кузик, Л. Котик, І. Ванда. Львів : ЛНУ імені Івана Франка, 2019. 148 с. 5. Мальська М. П., Антонюк Н. В., Занько Ю. С., Ганич Н. М. Країнознавство: теорія та практика : навч. посіб. Київ : Центр навчальної літератури, 2017. 528 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The task of studying the discipline consists in students acquiring deep theoretical knowledge knowledge on issues of typology of countries of the world according to various characteristics, coverage of the main ones stages of formation of a political map, assessment of levels of socio-economic development, place countries in the international division of labor. Tasks of the discipline "Geography of the countries of Asia, Oceania, of Australia" consist in providing students with general and professional competencies, provided by the "Geography" educational program, namely in: - the ability to preserve and multiply moral, cultural, scientific values ​​and achievements society on the basis of understanding the history and patterns of development of the countries of Asia, Oceania and Australia,
Assessment methods and criteria
Conditions for admission to the exam: the recommended minimum for admission is 36 points. For number of students who scored a total of less than 36 points (recommended minimum), a mandatory condition for admission to the exam is writing essays on questions missed or insufficiently mastered topics. Final evaluation in the form of an exam: the maximum number of points in the exam is 40 points, the minimum number of points that are added to semester grades is 24 points (60% of the maximum the number of points assigned to the exam).
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

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