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STRUTTURA DIDATTICA SPECIALE DI LINGUE E
LETTERATURE STRANIERE
Corso di laurea in Mediazione linguistica e interculturale
Anno accademico 2016/2017 - 1° anno
GEOGRAPHY
9 CFU - 2° semestre
Docente titolare dell'insegnamento
SALVATORE TORRE
Email: [email protected]
Edificio / Indirizzo: Palazzo Ingrassia, via Biblioteca, 4 Catania
Telefono: 0952508058
Orario ricevimento: martedì 10.00 - 13.00 / mercoledì 10.00 - 13.00
OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI
Knowledge and understanding:
Basic knowledge of the cultural, economic, and geopolitical frameworks.
Basic knowledge of the great lines of diffusion of the economic crisis.
Basic knowledge of the main methods of investigation and theories on the human settlement and the
socio-environmental conflicts.
Applying knowledge and understanding:
Using basic tools of the geographical analysis, applying to studies on the great cultural areas.
Connecting theoretical knowledge and the practical study of the territories.
Making judgement:
Identifying the main social phenomena with cartographic and iconografic tools.
Applying theories to practical problems and issues in the regional territory.
Communication skills:
Describing processes and phenomena.
Giving examples and reasoning on theories and cases of study.
Learning skills:
In-depth understanding of the main issues trought searching for scientific sources and databases (e.g.,
JStor, Eric, WoS, ect. …)
PREREQUISITI RICHIESTI
Basic knowledges in the human sciences.
CONTENUTI DEL CORSO
The course is aimed to present the main issues related to large global transformations of the last
decades. A brief overview of the global ecological crisis and several geopolitical and environmental
problems facing Human Communities will be presented. It also will contribute to the formation of skills
related to the analysis of geographical processes.
Then, the course will address the analysis of the current socio-ecological debate, focusing the
environmental transformations of economic globalization and the social conflicts related to the urban
living conditions. It will be analysed the existing relationships between human communities and
ecological communities, in the context of the new models of citizenship. It will pay particular attention to
the problems posed by the new social conflicts related to the construction of living spaces.
TESTI DI RIFERIMENTO
1. Hubbard P., Kitchin R. Bartley B. and Fuller D. 2005. Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and
Contemporary Human Geography. London-New York: Continuum.
2. Del Casino V., 2009. Social Geography: a critical introduction. Malden (USA)-Oxford (Uk): WileyBlackwell.
3. Enivronmental Justice Atlas: www.ejatlas.org
PROGRAMMAZIONE DEL CORSO
* Argomenti
Riferimenti testi
1 * Social Geography, general
theory
Del Casino V., 2009. Social Geography: a critical introduction.
Malden (USA)-Oxford (Uk): Wiley-Blackwell.
2 * Social Geography,
methodology
Del Casino V., 2009. Social Geography: a critical introduction.
Malden (USA)-Oxford (Uk): Wiley-Blackwell.
3 * Geographies of health
Del Casino V., 2009. Social Geography: a critical introduction.
Malden (USA)-Oxford (Uk): Wiley-Blackwell.
4 * Geographies of social
movements
deDel Casino V., 2009. Social Geography: a critical introduction.
Malden (USA)-Oxford (Uk): Wiley-Blackwell.
5 * Environmental conflicts
Enivronmental Justice Atlas: www.ejatlas.org
6 * History of Geographic
Thought
Hubbard P., Kitchin R. Bartley B. and Fuller D. 2005. Thinking
Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human
Geography. London-New York: Continuum.
* Conoscenze minime irrinunciabili per il superamento dell'esame.
N.B. La conoscenza degli argomenti contrassegnati con l'asterisco è condizione necessaria ma non
sufficiente per il superamento dell'esame. Rispondere in maniera sufficiente o anche più che sufficiente
alle domande su tali argomenti non assicura, pertanto, il superamento dell'esame.
MATERIALE DIDATTICO
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