ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Academic year
2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
GEOGRAFIA ECONOMICA
Course code
ET0034 (AF:231068 AR:128878)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-GGR/02
Period
1st Term
Course year
3
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course aims to provide students with the main conceptual and methodological tools in a geographical and territorial perspective. The objective of the course is to provide knowledge about the spatial and territorial organization of contemporary economy.
1) Knowledge and understanding
To acquire the basic concepts of economic geography and related reference terminology
To understand the main spatial and territorial dimensions of the action of firms and of the main political and economic organizations, both national and international.
To understand the main concepts and tools of territorial action in the field of development policies.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
To acquire the capability to use the basic concepts of economic geography and its language to interpret the evolution of contemporary geo-economic systems
To be able to use territorial action concepts and tools in the field of development policies to analyze current territorial policies in different geographical contexts (cities, regions, states, supranational organizations)

3) Ability to judge
To develop the capability to formulate and argue simple interpretative hypotheses regarding the evolution of possible geo-economic scenarios

4) Communication skills:
The student must be able to synthesize the acquired knowledge in an efficient and coherent way.
Students must have acquired the basic concepts of Economics.
The programme for students attending the class and students not attending the class is as follows:

The geo-economic space: territory, regions, networks
The world system.
Economy and natural environment: Sustainable development and green economy
Migration and population
The agricultural Spaces
Commodities & Energy
The evolution of Industrial Spaces
Transport and Communications
Tourism and regional development
City, brban development, territorial marketing
The economic development policies
- G. Dematteis, C. Lanza, F. Nano, A. Vanolo, Geografia dell'economia mondiale, UTET, ultima edizione.
- Lecture notes; presentations available in the Moodle platform
For all students (attendin and not-attending ones) the exam consists of a written test, with open questions on the topics of the course. The test lasts 50 minutes and is aimed at verifying the acquisition by students of the basic concepts of economic geography, as well as their ability to contextualise these concepts with respect to the main sptaial and territorial dynamics that affect contemporary economies.
5 questions require a synthetic answer, aimed at verifying the effectiveness of the student's study. Each answer is worth a maximum of 4 points (out of 30).
A question instead requires the elaboration of a more articulate text, aimed at assessing the student's ability to link together and critically contextualize the main contents acquired in the course. The answer to this question is worth 10 points.
The course is organized with frontal-lectures. In each lesson the final part is destined for discussion with the students, according to modalities consistent with the number of the class.
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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 21/05/2019