2020/2021
Mobility and Transport
Code: 101599 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2501002 Geography and Spatial Planning | OT | 3 | 0 |
| 2501002 Geography and Spatial Planning | OT | 4 | 0 |
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.
Contact
- Name:
- Monika Wiktoria Maciejewska
- Email:
- Monika.Maciejewska@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
Any
Objectives and Contextualisation
The study of mobility within the framework of the new paradigm of sustainability. The following specific objectives are raised:
- Know the basic concepts of mobility
- understand the complex assessment between mobility and territory
- Know the limits and impacts associated with the current mobility model
- Know the methodologies of study of mobility
- Know the necessary instruments and their methodologies for the management of mobility
- Know the legal framework for the management of mobility
Competences
- Geography and Spatial Planning
- Acting and intervening in the territory and its management, displaying the practical and experimental nature of geographical formations.
- Analysing and interpreting environmental problems.
- Analysing and interpreting urban problems.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing the main dynamics of today's world from a geographical point of view.
- Carrying out oral presentations using an appropriate academic vocabulary and style.
- Contrasting and comparing relevant geographical data.
- Defining a spatial distribution on the basis of collective facilities, resources and mobility of people.
- Effectively communicating and applying the argumentative and textual processes to formal and scientific texts.
- Explaining the environmental problems in order to deepen in the territorial diagnosis and changes in the landscape.
- Identifying the ideas and expressing them in various languages with linguistic correctness.
- Identifying urban problems when taking decisions about spatial planning.
- Summarising acquired knowledge about the origin and transformations experienced in its several fields of study.
Content
1. Introduction to mobility
2. The means of transport
3. Mobility and city
4. The impacts of mobility
5. The challenges of mobility
6. How to study mobility
7. Citizen participation in the management of mobility
Methodology
The teaching methodology will consist of:
- theoretical classes, that in the case of group 70 in the reading of the subjects uploaded to moodle
- active participation in class discussions. In group 70, these discussions will be carried out through the virtual forum
- For group 70, attendance at the annual meeting
- Delivey de courso report
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Reading lessons | 43 | 1.72 | 9 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 5 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Course Report, Excercises, Study | 70 | 2.8 | 1, 5 |
Assessment
The note will be obtained from:
Review: 30%
Practices: 40
Course report: 30
To be evaluated, you need to:
-do the exam
- Deliver the work
- Deliver at least 75% of the practices
Otherwise the note will appear as NOT AVALUABLE
The copying or plagiarism of material, both in the case of works and in the case of examinations, constitute a crime that will be sanctioned with a zero to the activity. In the case of recidivism, the entire subject will be suspended. Let's remember that a "copy" is considered a work that reproduces all or most of the work of one or more partners. "Plagiarism" is the fact of presenting all or part of a text of an author as its own, without quoting the sources, being in paper format in digital format. See UAB documentation on "plagiarism" at: http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Course Report | 30 % | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 |
| Edition of Exercices | 30% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 |
| Exam | 30% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 2, 7, 9 |
| Participation in debates | 10% | 6 | 0.24 | 1, 4, 5, 2, 7, 9 |
Bibliography
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