Students will develop greater mastery of the basics of geographic and cartographic elements;

Observing and describing the relationships between society and territory at different scales for a better understanding of contemporary reality.

Analyze and describe the forms of territorial organization that are strongly connected with economic, social and cultural structures, using the experimental tools of visual geography: working with the media and working on the media.

Improve the understanding of the role of human societies in the organization of the environment and that of the meaning of the natural environment and the action of human beings on it, with particular attention to the social dimension. Develop awareness of the lived territory and of the role of space in one's existence.

APPLIED KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

The student will have to demonstrate that he has understood and is able to critically rework the main elements of contemporaneity in its spatial declination. In particular, the student must master the elements of reading maps and the geographical landscape; the processes of interaction between human beings and the environment (from settlements to production and interaction processes); the effects of space/time compression dictated by globalization; the evolution of the urbanization process; the description of the daily territory through the tools of cultural geography; mastery of the evolution of geographical thought. Use of visual geography approaches.

ANY FURTHER EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

Making judgments:

Ability to critically use the knowledge of human geography at different scales and its fundamental methods of analysis and representation.

and communication skills through visual tools.

LEARNING ABILITY:

The study method aims to develop the learning skills and the use of geographical and cartographic language that will allow to deal with more analytical topics of the same knowledge in the future and, at the same time, to be able to observe in a spatial and territorial perspective what is foreseen by other exams.

The recommended texts are available at the library of the Department of Human and Social Sciences (Palazzo Giusso, 1st floor).

Interested students are eligible for loans in accordance with current regulations