Study Programmes 2016-2017
GEOG2024-1  
Territorial diagnosis workshops
Duration :
20h Th, 45h Pr, 6d FW
Number of credits :
Bachelor in geography : general5
Lecturer :
Serge Schmitz
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit 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 collect and analyse information (Oral survey, observation, landscape analysis...) and tolls to assess the regional development and to foresight it are presented.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
1. Confrontation with the difficulties of research abroad 2. Command of research methods of economic and social geography                                                                                  3. Approriation of interview and survey techniques                                                                                                                                    4. Use of the geographical knowledge to realise a territorial diagnostic from a sustainable development viewpoint. 5. Use of tools to help the diagnostic 6. Reflexivity concerning regional knowledge and regional development.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Landscape analysis, Spatial analysis, cartography, rural and urban geography, and geomorphology.
Good physical condition, English
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
The lectures and the exercises present tools and prepare the students to the fieldworks. They are planned during one week of May. This fieldwork tends to be as close as possible of real condition of diagnostic. Students work in collaboration to the diagnostic.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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.
Recommended or required readings :
Nihil
Assessment methods and criteria :
Fieldworks and report (50%) Oral exam (50%
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Fieldworks will be organized in Eastern Europe in May
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