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Course Catalog 01/02


Business Adm and Social Science

IES631 Geography B 30.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
III + IV

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Maj-Lis Selberg Univ adj


PREREQUISITES
Knowledge equivalent to 20p of Geography A.


COURSE AIM
The course should give the students advanced knowledge within the subject Geography, concentration on the processes that transform the ground of the earth, the significance of the climate and how the man use the ground of the earth for settlement and industry. Understanding of the great global ecosustems. The students should acquire knowledge and skills that make futher studies within the subject area Geography possible.


CONTENTS
ITEM 1. Physical Geography, Weather and Climate.

ITEM 2. Geographical Information Systems.

ITEM 3. Physical Geography

ITEM 4. Project Work
The students should carry out a project within a chosen work area.


TEACHING
Lectures, lessons, groupe practices, laboratory work, seminars, individual and group assignments. Excursions and educational visits are part of every item, a longer excursion is part of item 4. There will be a small fee for the excursions and the educational visits. The excursions, educational visits and seminars are obligatory.


EXAMINATION
The students willbe graded on obligatory work assignments and written examinations. There will be an examination at the end of every item.

COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, Pass, Distinction.

COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS/CREDITS

Project work 7.50ECTS
Written exam 7.50ECTS
Reuired assignment 3.00ECTS
Written exam 4.50ECTS
Written exam 7.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Moment 1
Bogren,J m.fl.( 1995) Klimatologi - meteorologi. Göteborgs Universitet
-Klimat, sjöar och vattendrag. SNA. Bra Böcker. ISBN 91-7024-898-2.
McKnight,T. (1999): Physical Geography, A Landscape Appreciation , Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New jersey, 07458
- Stor skolatlas. Gleerups förlag. Senaste upplagan / alternativt
- Stor världsatlas. Norstedts förlag. Senaste upplagan
- Geografiska tabeller med arbetsuppgifter . Senaste upplagan. Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag AB

Moment 2
Heywood, I., Cornelius, S. & Carver, S. (1998): An Introduction to Geographical Inormation Systems. Harlow: Longman. 1998. ISBN 0-582-08940-9.

Moment 3
Andersson, L.: Naturen och människan. Introduktion till ekologin och miljövården. ( senaste upplagan) Studieförlaget Hallgren och Fallgren i samarbete med Uppsala Universitet.
-. Klimat, sjöar och vattendrag. SNA. Bra Böcker. ISBN 91-7024-898-2.
McKnight,T. (1999): Physical Geography, A Landscape Appreciation , Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New jersey, 07458
. Saeger, J. Världens miljö - Atlas. Naturskyddsföreningen och Bokskogen.

Moment4
Hård af Segerstad, H. (1998) Problembaserat lärande. Liber. ISBN 91-47-04898-0.
Litteratur om ca 800 sidor väljes i samråd med examinator
Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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