Objectives and competences
Students:
- to learn about the geographical characteristic and regionalisation of Asia,
- to understand the causes of actual situation in Asia in globally and locally,
- to recognise the globalisation in Asia,
- the possibilities of environmental protection in Asia because the anrhropogenic pressure.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1. Geographical outline of the Asian continent.
2. Asia as a world power.
3. Southwest Asia.
4. South Asia.
5. Southeast Asia.
6. East Asia.
7. North Asia.
8. Inner Asia.
9. Selected chapters in the geography of Asia with the involvement of foreign professors from Asian countries (China, India, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Syria and others)
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- Student know to present natural and social characteristic of Asia,
- Student understand the process in Asia as results natural and social condition,
- Student can transfer the process and actual situation in Asia countries.
Readings
BUHEJI, Mohamed, VOVK KORŽE, Ana. Re-emphasising 'geography role' in socio-economic solutions : a pedagogical approach using poverty elimination as a context. American journal of economics. 2020, vol. 10, no. 6, str. 459-465, ilustr. ISSN 2166-4951. http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.economics.20201006.16.html, DOI: 10.5923/j.economics.20201006.16. [COBISS.SI-ID 40583171]
Chen, T. (2021). The Imaginable Ageography of Global Asias. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 7(1), 39-48. doi:10.5749/vergstudglobasia.7.1.0039
Blum, R. (1961). The Peculiarities of Geography: Asia. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 335, 71-75. Retrieved April 15, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1033256
VOVK KORŽE, Ana, HLASTAN, Andreja. Geografski pogled na problematiko vodovja v Aziji. Nazarje: GEAart; Maribor: Mednarodni center za ekoremediacije, 2014. 104 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-961-93683-4-3. [COBISS.SI-ID 276936960
VOVK KORŽE, Ana, LI, Yao. Agroecology (AE) as a sustainable approach for human being and environment protection (on specific cases in Slovenia and China). Acta geographica Bosniae et Herzegovinae, ISSN 2303-7288, 2018, vol. 5, no. 10, str. 91-99, graf. prikazi. http://geoubih.ba/Acta/Actahtmlvol5no10EN/. [COBISS.SI-ID 24325640]
Hydro-climatic changes and their impacts on vegetation in Xinjiang, Central Asia; https://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=2&SID=C6tvCo6cy4aQLBxYLaf&page=1&doc=2
Christopher L. Salter, Joseph J. Hobbs, jesse H. Wheeler, Jr.,J. Trenton Kostbade, 2001: Essentials of World Regional Geography. University of Missouri-Columbia. Saunders College Publishing
