GEOG2047-2 : Territory project 2

Study Programmes 2016-2017

WARNING : 2015-2016 version of the course specifications

GEOG2047-2

Territory project 2

Ateliers de prospective
Séminaire de développement territorial - Chaire Sporck

Duration :

Ateliers de prospective : 15h Th, 50h Pr, 6d FW
Séminaire de développement territorial - Chaire Sporck : 15h Th

Number of credits :

Master in geography : general (120 ECTS)		8

Lecturer :

Ateliers de prospective : Serge Schmitz
Séminaire de développement territorial - Chaire Sporck : Collégialité

Substitute(s) :

Séminaire de développement territorial - Chaire Sporck : Jacques Lévy

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

All year long, with partial in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

Ateliers de prospective

Workshops are based on a territorial diagnostic and prospective study 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.
A cooperation with local stakeholders is foreseen.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

Ateliers de prospective

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. Selection of scenario
7. Reflexivity concerning regional knowledge and regional development.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Ateliers de prospective

Landscape analysis, Spatial analysis, cartography, rural and urban geography, and geomorphology.
Good physical condition, English

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Ateliers de prospective

The lectures and the exercises present tools and prepare the students to the projects. They are planned in Belgium during the first quadrimester and during one week of May abroad. These projects tend to be as close as possible of real condition of work. Students work in collaboration with stakeholders.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Ateliers de prospective

Lectures will be given at the geographic institute to present the tools to collect and analyse information and to prepare the fieldworks. Some evenings during the fieldworks are also dedicated to theory. Several reports are requested.