Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Territorial diagnosis workshops | ||||||||
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Duration :
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| 20h Th, 30h Pr, 6d FW | ||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Serge Schmitz | ||||||||
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Coordinator :
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| Serge Schmitz | ||||||||
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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 second semester | ||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||
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Course contents :
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| 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 collect and analyse information (Oral survey, observation, landscape analysis...) and tolls to assess the regional development and to foresight it are presented. | ||||||||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| 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. 4. Use of tools to help the diagnostic 5. Reflexivity concerning regional knowledge and regional development. | ||||||||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Landscape analysis, Spatial analysis, cartography, rural and urban geography, cultural geography, geomorphology, and regional planning.
Good physical condition, English |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The lectures, the exercises are integrated to the fieldworks. They are planned during one week of end April. This fieldwork tends to be as close as possible of real condition of diagnostic. Students work in collaboration to the diagnostic. | ||||||||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lectures will be given on Wednesday morning to present the tools to collect and analyse information and to prepare the fieldworks. Some evenings during the fieldworks are also dedicated to theory. | ||||||||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Nihil | ||||||||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Fieldworks and report (50%) Oral exam (50% | ||||||||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| Fieldworks will be organized end April in the High Atlas region of Morocco | ||||||||
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Contacts :
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| 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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