Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2012-13

Esta asignatura se orienta al conocimiento de las diferentes regiones del mundo, de sus relaciones internas y de los procesos que ayuden a entender su complejidad actual. Pretende ofrecer al alumnado una formación básica en aspectos esenciales en Geografía Regional, que les ayude en la comprensión de los diferentes elementos que definen estos espacios y de las relaciones con otros conjuntos regionales.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

DEGREE IN GEOGRAPHY AND TERRITORY ORGANIZATION

 

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
  • CG10 : Ethical commitment to sustainability, respect for fundamental rights, equality of men and women, democratic values, multiculturalism and peace.
  • CG3 : Capacity to manage information correctly, especially using ICTs.
  • CG4 : Capacity to work alone or in groups depending on the context and situation.
  • CG5 : Capacity for self-learning and adapting to new situations.
  • CG6 : Capacity to put knowledge into practice.
  • CG8 : Systematically careful and accurate at work.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE2 : Capacity to understand and handle the concepts, methodology and techniques of Geography and Spatial Planning correctly.
  • CE3 : Capacity to understand and use the concepts of other disciplines correctly, especially history, law and town planning.
  • CE4 : Capacity to combine temporal and spatial dimensions when analysing and interpreting spatial planning.
  • CE5 : Capacity to read and interpret spatial information provided by statistical tables, graphs, maps, plans and satellite images correctly.
  • CE6 : Capacity to transform and synthesise spatial information provided by statistical tables, graphs, maps and plans.
  • CE7 : Capacity to determine and interpret the elements of the area in question according the scale of analysis.
  • CE8 : Capacity analyse territory as a complex, interrelated and interdependent system.
  • CE9 : Capacity to present and transmit knowledge related to spatial analysis in an ordered, simple and clear manner, appropriate to the context.

 

DEGREE IN HISTORY

 

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Critical reasoning.
  • CG2 : Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
  • CG4 : Motivation for quality.
  • CG8 : Ethical commitment to the cultural, natural, historical, artistic, archaeological and ethnographic heritage.
  • CG9 : Social commitment to the plural and diverse nature of the realities of modern society, from a respect for fundamental rights and the equality of men and women, equal opportunities, non-discrimination and universal access for the disabled and the values of a peaceful democratic culture.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE1 : Identify, analyse and explain History from a local, national, European and universal context, understood as a complex and dynamic process.
  • CE10 : Capacity to manage resources, computer techniques and Internet to update knowledge using the new information dissemination techniques.
  • CE5 : Acquire the methods, techniques and instruments used in the historical sciences.

 

DEGREE IN HUMANITIES

 

General Competences (CG)

  • CG10 : Recognition of cultural diversity and equal opportunities.
  • CG2 : Computer and information technology skills.
  • CG4 : Critical reasoning.
  • CG5 : Capacity for analysis and synthesis.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE1 : Understand human behaviour in society using specific methods and techniques of analysis and, in this way, develop the ethical commitment to gender equality and a special capacity for interpersonal relationships.
  • CE4 : Understand contemporary territorial, socioeconomic, political and cultural reality, national and international, to interpret and transmit one's view of the modern world in critical fashion particularly the process of European integration, as well as the shaping of the Spanish state and its impact on the world.
  • CE8 : Acquire skills to prepare and display content related to the human and social sciences for dissemination and for educating secondary school children, using personal skills and ICT.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2012-13

Objetivos generales 1. Comprender el sentido de las divisiones regionales del mundo, a partir de la explicación de un conjunto de regiones agrupadas según diferentes criterios de clasificación. 2. Distinguir las diversas maneras de división del mundo en áreas homogéneas (regiones), en virtud de criterios de clasificación de las mismas. 3. Adquirir el conocimiento de los procesos que tienen lugar en los grandes conjuntos regionales 4. Identificar los principales rasgos de las estructuras físico-ecológica y socio-económica que caracterizan y definen a cada una de estas unidades territoriales. 5. Reconocer las principales dinámicas (pasadas y presentes) que caracterizan a estos conjuntos territoriales

 

 

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General

Code: 33003
Lecturer responsible:
HERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ, MARIA
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,60
Practical credits: 0,80
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: REGIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
    Area: REGIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
    Theoretical credits: 1,6
    Practical credits: 0,8
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught