GEOGRAPHY

Fostering the skills of spatial analysis so that students gain an understanding of the importance of scale and can evaluate and interpret the significance of spatial variation. Enhancing student’ comprehension dynamics, and the implications of this for people’s livelihoods, their use of the Earth, and environmental change. Cultivating global awareness in students and exposing them views so they are prepared and equipped to participate in an increasingly interconnected world. Educating students about the advantages and limitations of tools such as GIS and GPS in the acquisition and use of geographic information.

Key concepts of Geography: Nature, Culture, Place, Space, Spatial Diffusion, Spatial Interaction and Globalization, Territory, Cartographic Scale, Geographic Scale. Geographical Tools: Maps, Remote Sensing, Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS).

Cultural Geography and Globalization; Population and Migration; Geographies of Language; Geographies of Identity: Race, Ethnicity and Religion; Political Geographies; Urban Geographies; Geographies of Development; Changing Geographies of Industry and Services; Agricultural Geographies; Challenges.

Cultural Geography and Tourism: Cultural Heritage, Territoriality and Identity, Authenticity, Art, Traditions, Urban, Rural and Cultural Routes. Sicilian landscape: the evolution of the territory and the change in the landscape.

- A. L. GREINER, G. DEMATTEIS, C. LANZA, Human Geography. A Visual Approach, Utet Università, Novara, 2012, (Only chapters 1, 3,5,6,10), pp. 1-39, 73-110, 163-193, 195-227, 329-373.

- S. CANNIZZARO, G.L. CORINTO, C.M. PORTO, The Mediterranean. From the Regional Fracture to the Integration Process, Pàtron, Bologna, 2009 (Only chapter 1), pp. 1-72.

- S. CANNIZZARO, G.L. CORINTO, Landscape in Sicily. Territorial Dialogue and Landscape Episodes, Pàtron, Bologna, 2013, pp. 1-109.

- S. CANNIZZARO, Culture and creativity for territorial development, Pàtron, Bologna, 2018, pp. 1-195.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.