Course Description
Students are able to conduct research from a geographical perspective. To achieve this, the course material includes 1) History of the development of geography, 2) Development of the geographic science paradigm, 3). The paradigm of determinism, possibilism and probabilism, 4) the landscape and region paradigm in geography, 5) the positivism paradigm and the link between the quantitative revolution and its relation to the emergence of the spatial organization paradigm in geographical studies, 6) geography as a synthetic science, 7) the nature of geographic science, 8) The structure of geographical science: ontological, epistemological and axiological dimensions, 9) geographic objects and the geosphere as a system, 10) Approach to the study of geography: spatial, environmental and regional, 11) Exposure to various models of geographical studies.
Program Objectives (PO)