Objectives and competences
Students know to present main physical and human characteristics of Latin America. Student understand the contemporary proceses in Latin America.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1. Characteristics, physical and human geography of Mid-America. Physical regions.
2. Regional geography of Mexico.
3. Characteristics, physical geography of South America. Physical regions.
4. Early settlements and expansion, population change, migrations, population and social diversity, urbanization, favelas.
5. Natural sources, economic development, neocolonialism, ecology.
6. Regional geography of Brasil, Argentina, Chile and Peru.
7. The place of Latin America in today's global economic and geopolitical system.
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures,
- problem solving in seminar work.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Students:
- know to present main natural and human characteristic of Latin America,
- understand the contemporary proceses in Latin America.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
- Student understands the situation in other countries,
- Student knows the regional geography of Latin Amerika.
Readings
Natek K., Natek M.: Države sveta 2005. Ljubljana, Mladinska knjiga, 2006.
De Blij , et al: Geography of the world, 4th ed. Hoboken : J. Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Caviedes, C., Knapp G.: South America. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.
Kent, R. B.: Latin America : regions and people, 2nd ed., New York; London : The Guilford Press, 2016.
Wade, P.: Race and ethnicity in Latin America, 2nd ed., London; New York : Pluto Press, 2010.
Lang p, et al.: The geographies of Canada, Bruxelles, P.I.E., 2013.
Lamping H.: Australien. Perthes Länderprofile. Gotha: Klett-Perthes, 2003.
Novejši članki iz domače in tuje periodike (seznam posredovan pri predavanjih).
Prerequisits
Seminary work is prerequisite for the written exam.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - research paper - 40 %
- written exam. - 60 %
