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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
GEOG0644-1  Regional Survey, Workshops and Fieldworks
Duration :  15h Th, 15h Pr, 5d FW
Credits/ECTS :  
Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, specialized approach, 2nd yearToute l'année4
Holder(s) :  Serge Schmitz
Language :  French language
Course contents :  Workshops are based on a territorial diagnostic that will be realized during a week fieldworks abroad. They confront the student with fieldworks methodological problems and with the relativity of the idea of development. Main tools to assess the regional development and to foresight it are presented.
Course objective :  1. Confrontation with the difficulties of research abroad
2. Command of research methods of economic and social geography
3. Use of the geographical knowledge to realise a territorial diagnostic from a sustainable development viewpoint.
Prerequisites :  Landscape analysis, Spatial analysis, cartography, rural and urban geography, cultural geography, geomorphology, and regional planning.

Good physical condition, English
Workshops :  The exercises are joined to fieldwork in May.
Organization :  Lectures will be given in April to prepare the fieldworks and during the fieldworks.
Written notes :  Nihil
Assessment :  Fieldworks (50%)
Oral exams (50%
Contacts :  Serge Schmitz
Université de Liège - Institut de Géographie - Sart Tilman - Bât. B11 - Bureau 1/21 -
Tél. : 04/366.56.29 - Fax : 04/366 57 70 - E-mail : S.Schmitz@ulg.ac.be
Secrétariat : Chantal SARTO : Tél. : 04/366 56.23


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