There is no prerequisite to curse this subject.The experience and training of the student acquired in previous years will be considered, since a series of concepts wil be developed throughout the course that will have been learned during the previos stages of thir academic training. It is recommended that the student be familiar with computer programs, for which a certain skills is required in the handling of word processors and Excel spreadsheets, as wel as browsing throught the Internet.
The subject Geography and Society belongs to the branch of knowledge of the Social Sciences. It is part of the Department of Geography and Lan Use Planning whose presence in the curriculum gives it some basic, compulsory and optional subjects. In this case, the nature of this subject corresponds to basic training, with a teaching load of 6 ECTS credits. This subject is proposed along with other subjects of this same nature of basic training with the aim of offering a fundamental training in the degree. It is intended that the student acquires the fundamental bases of the geographical discipline. The understanding of the main concepts and the search, analysis and interpretation of data through various sources will make the student acquire skills for further application in other subjects and their future professional career.
Relationship with other subjects: The subjects taught in the Department of Geography and Land Use Planning have a logical sequencing throughout the Degree in Humanities and Social Studies. During the first year of the Degree, we start by teaching subjects with a methodological and conceptual nature whose nature has a basic training in this subject and Geography and Environment. The methods, techniques and concepts developed throughout this first course are those that will have their application in subjects that are developed in more advanced courses of the degree, for which it will be necessary to have correctly understood the theoretical and methodological bases of this discipline. In the following years the acquired knowledge, skills and abilities will have their application in certain territories that go from our closest environment (Spain and Castilla-La Mancha) to some more distant (Latin America). The instrumental, methodological and conceptual nature of this subject makes it useful with the rest of the subjects of the degree, whether basic, compulsory or optional. The knowledge of this subject has application in other subjects of the curriculum, in addition to those taught by the Department of ascription of the subject, such as those belonging to the departments of History or Philosophy.
The theoretical nature of this subject is complemented by practices. For that, it is necessary to acquire a series of skills and abilities such as the use of information and communication technologies to produce information from various statistical sources or use an appropriate language in oral and written form that they will use in the future labour market, whether as a teacher, archivist, librarian or staff assigned to research projects or international cooperation.
| Course competences | |
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| Code | Description |
| E02 | To use techniques and quantitative and qualitative methods to work on the Human and Social Sciences |
| E03 | To analyze and to value critically the globalization process and the current social and cultural situation in its context |
| E12 | To use the main computer tools and the new information technologies in Humanities and Social Sciences to the creation of digital information |
| G02 | Knowledge of communication and information technologies |
| T04 | To analyze with own criteria and to formulate critical judgements on environmental, social and cultural today's world problems |
| T05 | To compile, to interpret and to classify documents and different data to discern relevant information on cultural, scientific and social subjects |
| T06 | To express well-argued opinions orally or through written reports |
| T10 | To work autonomously in a flexible, creative and self-directed manner, and to develop attitudes that will allow a lifelong learning process |
| Course learning outcomes | |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Problems solving, decisions making and capacity to adapt to a changing world. | |
| Management of the communications and information technologies in the service of Human and Social Sciences. | |
| Capacity to work autonomously and in multidisciplinary teams to collect, to interpret and to classify documents, data and information from a variety of sources. | |
| Capacity to argued the own ideas in a well-argued manner orally and with written papers. | |
| Comprehension of the interrelationship between society, land and culture, with all its forms and in its historical context. | |
| Additional outcomes | |
| Not established. |
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Unit 1: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
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Unit 1.1: Evolution of ideas in the History of Geography
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Unit 1.2: The object of Geography, a discipline of space and man
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Unit 2: THE POPULATION IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE
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Unit 2.1: Evolution and growth of the world population
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Unit 2.2: The demographic transition model
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Unit 2.3: The unequal world distribution
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Unit 3: THE NATURAL DYNAMICS OF THE POPULATION
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Unit 3.1: The study of the birth
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Unit 3.2: The study of mortality
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Unit 4: THE STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION
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Unit 4.1: The distribution by age and sex
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Unit 4.2: The socioeconomic characteristics of the population
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Unit 5: THE SPACE MOBILITY OF THE POPULATION
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Unit 5.1: Migratory dynamics
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Unit 5.2: The types of migrations
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Unit 6: THE AGRARIAN ACTIVITY
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Unit 6.1: The agrarian activity
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Unit 6.2: The agrarian spaces
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Unit 7: INDUSTRIAL SPACES
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Unit 7.1: Industrial activity
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Unit 7.2: First, second and last generation industrial spaces
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Unit 8: THE SERVICES SECTOR
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Unit 8.1: The transports
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Unit 8.2: Trade
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Unit 8.3: The spaces of tourism
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| Training Activity | Methodology | Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021) | ECTS | Hours | As | Com | R | Description * |
| Class Attendance (theory) [ON-SITE] | Lectures | T06 | 1.84 | 46 | Y | N | N | |
| Class Attendance (practical) [ON-SITE] | Problem solving and exercises | E02 T04 T05 | 0.24 | 6 | Y | Y | Y | |
| Computer room practice [ON-SITE] | Practical or hands-on activities | E02 E12 G02 T04 T10 | 0.32 | 8 | Y | Y | Y | |
| Portfolio Development [OFF-SITE] | Problem solving and exercises | E03 E12 T05 T10 | 0.6 | 15 | Y | Y | Y | |
| Writing of reports or projects [OFF-SITE] | Individual presentation of projects and reports | E03 T04 T05 T10 | 1.2 | 30 | Y | Y | Y | |
| Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] | Self-study | E03 T06 T10 | 1.8 | 45 | Y | N | Y | |
| Total: | 6 | 150 | ||||||
| Total credits of in-class work: 2.4 | Total class time hours: 60 | |||||||
| Total credits of out of class work: 3.6 | Total hours of out of class work: 90 | |||||||
As: Assessable training activity Com: Training activity of compulsory overcoming R: Rescheduling training activity
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| Evaluation System | Face-to-Face | Self-Study Student | Description |
| Final test | 30.00% | 0.00% | The student will have to demonstrate the ability to: - explain the acquired knowledge (theoretical and practical) developed in the syllabus - use the acquired knowledge in the explanation of cases - organize the exposed ideas It is considered necessary to obtain a score equal to or greater than 5 to calculate the average with reports and practicums. |
| Portfolio assessment | 50.00% | 0.00% | The student will have to carry out an academic work following a series of established rules in which he will develop one of the topics dealt with throughout the course. You will have to demonstrate your ability to: - gather information - organize the contents - have clarity of the exposition - use the consulted sources correctly This work has an interdisciplinary character coordinated with subjects of this semester of the same course. |
| Assessment of active participation | 20.00% | 0.00% | The student will have to demonstrate through the activities programmed in the classroom throughout the semester his ability to: - criticize documents belonging to the geographical discipline - Analyze current reality objectively - argue your opinions - teamwork - use of the methods and techniques of the Human and Social Sciences - resolution in the study of concrete cases |
| Total: | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
For students who do not attend regularly to class will be an evaluation of all training processes (exam, 70%; report, 20%; practices, 10%) that will be weighted to obtain a final grade between 0 and 10 according to current legislation .
| Not related to the syllabus/contents | |
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| Hours | hours |
| Class Attendance (practical) [PRESENCIAL][Problem solving and exercises] | 6 |
| Computer room practice [PRESENCIAL][Practical or hands-on activities] | 8 |
| Portfolio Development [AUTÓNOMA][Problem solving and exercises] | 15 |
| Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Individual presentation of projects and reports] | 30 |
| Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] | 45 |
| Unit 1 (de 8): ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE | |
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| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 4 |
| Unit 2 (de 8): THE POPULATION IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE | |
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| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Unit 3 (de 8): THE NATURAL DYNAMICS OF THE POPULATION | |
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| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Unit 4 (de 8): THE STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION | |
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| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Unit 5 (de 8): THE SPACE MOBILITY OF THE POPULATION | |
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| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Unit 6 (de 8): THE AGRARIAN ACTIVITY | |
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| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Unit 7 (de 8): INDUSTRIAL SPACES | |
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| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Unit 8 (de 8): THE SERVICES SECTOR | |
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| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Global activity | |
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| Activities | hours |