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Course: Economic Geography 2 - Industry

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Course title Economic Geography 2 - Industry
Course code KGE/EG2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional, Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Klika David, Mgr.
  • Dokoupil Jaroslav, Doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Geography of industry (industry performance, focus, approaches, the basic theory of localization industry classification of economic activities). Momentum in industrial production (industrial revolution, the industrial location factors, fordism, global production chains). Core areas of industrial production (origin, evolution, changes in the spatial arrangement, industrial units and regions). Innovation in industrial production (legislative framework and tools, industrial clusters, industrial zones, know-how and development centers). Industrial production and global problems (environmental aspects, environmental pollution, economic crisis and unemployment in the industry, the issue of working conditions in the industry in developing countries, brownfields, land appropriation). Sources of raw materials and industry (mining industry, focusing on strategic raw materials). The energy industry and its role in the contemporary world (electricity generation, energy mix, energy policy). Manufacturing industry and its role in the contemporary world (food, textile, chemical, electrical industry etc.). The automotive industry in the economy of selected countries (deployment production of passenger cars and coherence of global and regional production, dependence of selected countries in the prosperity of the field). Selected problems of industrial production in the EU (support industrial production in the EU, the backbone industry, export and import). Geography industrial plant (practical research methods geographic aspects of industrial production to a particular race).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Seminar
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 15 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 8 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 30 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Basic knowledge and general assumptions for the study of geography.
Skills
N/A
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
Explain the context of the deployment of industrial activities with globalization processes is characteristic of the regional territory.
Understand and explain the deployment of industrial production in the world.
Identify problems associated with modern industrial production.
Recognizes the determinants of deployment of industrial production as well as their regional impacts.
Skills
Analyze the determinants of deployment of industrial production as well as their regional impacts.
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Seminar
Skills
Seminar
Individual study
Competences
Seminar
Students' portfolio
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Individual presentation at a seminar
Skills
Combined exam
Individual presentation at a seminar
Competences
Skills demonstration during practicum
Recommended literature
  • Dicken, P. Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy. 6. vydání. London: SAGE Publications, 2011.
  • Dokoupil, J., Mirvald, S. Cvičení z geografie průmyslu. 1. vydání. Plzeň : Pedagogická fakulta, 1993. ISBN 80-7043-077-X.
  • Knox, Paul L.; Agnew, John A.,; McCarthy, Linda. The geography of the world economy. 5th ed. London : Hodder Education, 2008. ISBN 978-0-340-94835-4.
  • Petr Pavlínek. Global Production Networks, Foreign Direct Investment and Supplier Linkages in the Integrated Peripheries of the Automotive Industry. 2018.
  • Toušek, Václav. Ekonomická a sociální geografie. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Geography in Education (19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Geography in Education (18) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Geography in Education (16) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Information Technologies in Education (19) Category: Informatics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Physics in Education (16) Category: Physics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Information Technologies in Education (16) Category: Informatics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Health Education (16) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Economics Study plan (Version): Economic and Regional Geography (2017) Category: Geography courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Geography in Education (17) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Studies in Mathematics (18) Category: Mathematics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Physical Education in Education (18) Category: Physical education and sport 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Chemistry in Education (16) Category: Chemistry courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Economics Study plan (Version): Business Economics and Management (2015) Category: Economy 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Chemistry in Education (18) Category: Chemistry courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Information Technologies in Education (18) Category: Informatics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language in Education (17) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Physics in Education (19) Category: Physics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language in Education (18) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): German Language in Education (16) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Chemistry in Education (17) Category: Chemistry courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Physical Education in Education (17) Category: Physical education and sport 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Russian Language in Education (17) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Biology in Education (18) Category: Biology courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language in Education (19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Czech Language in Education (19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Biology in Education (16) Category: Biology courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Technology and Design in Education (17) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Studies in Mathematics (19) Category: Mathematics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Chemistry in Education (19) Category: Chemistry courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Technology and Design in Education (18) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Physical Education in Education (19) Category: Physical education and sport 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Russian Language in Education (19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Technology and Design in Education (16) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Studies in Mathematics (17) Category: Mathematics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Biology in Education (17) Category: Biology courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Physics in Education (17) Category: Physics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Technology and Design in Education (19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Czech Language in Education (18) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): German Language in Education (18) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Russian Language in Education (18) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Physical Education in Education (16) Category: Physical education and sport 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Information Technologies in Education (17) Category: Informatics courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): German Language in Education (17) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Biology in Education (19) Category: Biology courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): German Language in Education (19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
University of West Bohemia, date of update: 26.07.2024 23:53. Data created for academic year 2024/2025