Duration
20h Th, 45h Pr, 6d FW
Number of credits
| Bachelor in geography : general | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
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
The course presents the main tools to collect and analyze information (Oral survey, observation, landscape analysis...) and tolls to assess the regional development and to foresight it are presented.
An important chapter is dedicated to Oral Surveys and Interviews technics, including the analyze tools. The students will conduct one survey. (Research questions, questionnaire, test, survey, coding, analyses and statistical tests).
Fieldwork 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.
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