2/254 - Human Geography

The Human Geography course provides basic knowledge, theoretical and methodological tools, and analytical skills to understand the territorial, cultural, and social dynamics that characterize the contemporary world, with particular attention to the linguistic, literary, and cultural spaces of Europe and the Americas.

Particular emphasis will be placed on the cultural dimension of space, on the analysis of geographical representations in literary, artistic, and media productions, as well as on historical and contemporary processes of collective identity construction, territorial narratives, and imagined geographies.

Among the objectives and expected learning outcomes, in line with the course of study:

• Provide the fundamental tools of human geography (concepts such as space, territory, place, landscape, scale, mobility, network), applying them to the critical analysis of European and American cultural and linguistic contexts;
• Developing the ability to interpret social and spatial transformations in a comparative and historical key, with a focus on phenomena such as migration, globalization, urbanization, tourism, and environmental crises;
• Integrating the geographical perspective with linguistic, literary, philological, and historical-cultural skills, promoting an interdisciplinary approach useful for the interpretation of texts and cultural contexts;
• Analyze representations of space and territory in the literature, arts, and media of the civilizations studied, highlighting the relationships between real and imagined places, between identity and geographical narratives;
• Strengthen the ability to contextualize cultural and literary phenomena within the territorial and geopolitical dynamics of the countries and linguistic areas under study;
• Improve communication and argumentation skills through the use of vocabulary and languages specific to geography (verbal, visual, cartographic), also in relation to the development of academic, literary, essayistic, and informative texts;
• Promote independent judgment through the study of geographical sources and data, the critical analysis of information, and reflection on the interactions between culture, language, literature, and territory;
• Support the development of cross-disciplinary skills useful in the fields of translation, intercultural communication, publishing, language teaching, and cultural tourism.