Course objectives:
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The aim of this course is to orientate students on individual activity, work with literature and electronic sources of data and field research. Students will process obtained data and evaluate it. Students have a chance to participate in research activity of the Department of Geography.
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Requirements on student
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Students will search or obtain various data from fieldwork, analyze, partial synthetize data, process these data in the form of written or PowerPoint paper, elaboration of paper on a given topic. Specific themes and outputs will be determined according to actual grant projects at the deparment or to other research activities.
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Content
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The course includes: an individual field work, a field research, data collecting, data processing and data evaluation.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Practical training (number of hours)
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80
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Contact hours
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4
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Total
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84
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge - students are expected to possess the following knowledge before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
to complete compulsory and recommended subjects of the first year of study |
Skills - students are expected to possess the following skills before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
no specific |
Competences - students are expected to possess the following competences before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
no specific |
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Learning outcomes
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Knowledge - knowledge resulting from the course: |
to get an overview of the processed topics |
Skills - skills resulting from the course: |
to master analytical-synthetic procedures and comparison when working with geographic data |
to use scientific literature and to quote sources correctly |
to work with primary and secondary data and process them according to specified criteria
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Competences - competences resulting from the course: |
N/A |
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Assessment methods
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Knowledge - knowledge achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
Portfolio |
Seminar work |
Skills - skills achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
Portfolio |
Project |
Competences - competence achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
Portfolio |
Project |
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Teaching methods
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Knowledge - the following training methods are used to achieve the required knowledge: |
Internship |
Task-based study method |
Self-study of literature |
Individual study |
One-to-One tutorial |
Discussion |
Skills - the following training methods are used to achieve the required skills: |
Internship |
Individual study |
Competences - the following training methods are used to achieve the required competences: |
Internship |
Task-based study method |
Individual study |
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