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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Course objectives

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Human Geography, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will address the major themes of the relation mankind-environment at different geographical scales: distribution, dynamics, structure and movements of population, participation in economic activities, forms, functions and urban relations.

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RICCARDO MORRI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program

Introduction to the basic concepts of geography, historical geography and notions of general cartography. Recognition of the existing relationships between the spatial dimension and the historical dimension in the description and analysis of territories. The deconstruction of the concept of landscape in its diachronic, geographical and cultural dimensions.

Prerequisites

Secondary school knowledge of general geography, human geography and general cartography

Books

E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall'Unità a oggi, Torino, Utet, 2020, capitoli 4 e 5. G. De Vecchis, E. Boria, Manuale di Geografia, Roma, Carocci, 2022, pp. 11-21; pp. 121-154; pp. 173-288. R. Morri, Da Alvito alla campagna romana. Viaggi di braccianti e imprenditori tra '800 e '900, Roma, Edilazio, 2004; R. Morri, M. Maggioli et al., Piazza Tiburtino III, Roma, Società Geografica Italiana, 2013, pp. 4-56; R. Morri, Pratiche di public geography, Bologna, Pàtron, 2020, pp. 9-105. C. Palagiano, A. Asole, G. Arena, Cartografia e territorio nei secoli, Roma, 1984, pp.13-133. M. Quaini, “Poiché niente di quello che la storia sedimenta va perduto” in Quaderni storici, Una geografia per la storia dopo Lucio Gambi, 1, 2008, pp. 55-110; Students who will not be able or Students who will choose do not attend lessons in presence, it is suggested them to study: L. Gambi, “Critica ai concetti geografici di paesaggio umano”, in L. Gambi, Una geografia per la storia, Torino, Einaudi, 1973, pp. 148-174; M. De Filpo, Un'introduzione alla cartografia, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2017.

Exam mode

Presentation of written reports and in-depth essays, with reference to the participation in the general cartography seminar and in the events organized in Sapienza for the International Geography Night (April 2024). Final written test (quiz with both open-ended and closed-ended questions, including one/two questions aimed at ascertaining general cartography knowledge and skills, to be completed in 60 minutes).

Lesson mode

in presence