LANDSCAPE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, LETTERS AND HUMAN SCIENCES,UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO

Authors

  • Yuri Tavares Rocha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2012.0112.0008

Keywords:

Geography, landscape, undergraduate, curriculum

Abstract

In geography, the study of spatial arrangements can be made by various categories or geographic units of analysis, such as: space, region, territory, place, and landscape. The adoption of these categories generated different lines of geographical thought, providing theoretical and methodological approaches that were very important for geographical science and its thought lines, including the approach that adopts the landscape as a geographic unit of analysis. Aiming to understand the knowledge about landscape that students of the Bachelor of Geography from the Department of Geography/FFLCH/USP have before attending elective discipline Landscape Geographic Theory, they answered questionnaires from 2006 to 2011. Analysis of the results allowed the comparison of: a) the curricular structure of the undergraduate major in Geography among the Sao Paulo State Universities; b) verify among the universities the existence of disciplines about landscape; c) investigate the main definition about landscape elaborated by the students; d) investigate the authors and literature’s sources previously known by students; e) and finally suggest changes that can increase the value of landscape as a category of analysis in the education of the students majoring in Geography at the Department of Geography, University of São Paulo.

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Author Biography

  • Yuri Tavares Rocha
    Engenheiro Agrônomo, Mestre e Doutor em Geografia, coordenador do Working Group Urban Landscapes in Tropical Cities (International Society for Horticultural Science) e líder dos grupos de pesquisa “Paisagens naturais e urbanas” e “Biogeografia” (Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa - CNPq).

Published

2012-12-27

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How to Cite

Rocha, Y. T. (2012). LANDSCAPE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, LETTERS AND HUMAN SCIENCES,UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO. Revista Do Departamento De Geografia, 130-153. https://doi.org/10.7154/RDG.2012.0112.0008