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| GEOG2009-1 | Sporck Chair
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| Duration : | 15h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, in-depth approach, 1st year | | 1 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, didactic approach, 1st year | | 1 |
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| Master en sciences géographiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en développement territorial et géomatique, 1st year | | 1 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation, specialized approach, 1st year | | 1 |
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| Master en sciences géographiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en géomorphologie, 1st year | | 1 |
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| Master in Geographical Sciences, general orientation | | 1 |
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| Lecturer : | Bernadette Merenne-Schoumaker, Lena Sanders |
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| Coordinator : | Bernadette Merenne-Schoumaker |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| For 16 years, the Sporck Chair, created through the Sporck Foundation, allows to invite a foreign renowned colleague in order to ensure students of Master in Geographical Sciences a teaching about a non-treated field at the ULg. This year, the holder of this chair is Lena Sanders, Director of Research (UMR 8504, University of Paris 1 and Paris 7).
The course will focus on " Spatio-temporal modeling in geography" and will be organized in five parts.
1.Different formal frameworks for studying spatio-temporal phenomena
Applications: - describing and understanding urban growth; - defining and identifying "intermediate spaces".
2. Concepts and measures of change: categories of objects, categories of change, process of change
Applications: - rank-size distribution of system of cities and their evolution - identification of a metropolitan area's centers; comparison of different periods.
3. Multiscalar approaches to geographical phenomena
Applications: - individual and contextual factors of scholar inequalities; - intraurban and regional determinants of health inequalities among French cities.
4. System of cities and complex systems: spatial interactions, emergence and self-organisation.
Applications: - rank-size regularity (archeological time and present time); - urban segregation dynamics.
5. Different forms of articulations between conceptual reflection, empirical analyses and model development in a geographical research
Discussion based on the examples developed in the preceding courses. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Opening students to other issues and other forms of thought. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Having followed the normal curriculum in Geographic Sciences at the ULg |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Methods: lectures of the teacher, interaction with students and individual papers |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face teaching |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Sanders L., 2007, Models in Spatial Analysis, London, ISTE, (coordination), 319 p. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Questions at the end of the course. A compulsory question and 2 chosen questions to be prepared in writing for an oral examination |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| - Professeur :
B. Mérenne-Schoumaker
tél. : 04/366 53 24 - fax : 04/366 56 30
e-mail : B.Merenne@ulg.ac.be
- Secrétaire : C. Sarto
tél. : 04/366 56 23 - fax : 04/366 56 30
e-mail : C.Sarto@ulg.ac.be |
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