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Geography of Asia

Code: 101522 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500244 East Asian Studies FB 1

Contact

Name:
David Saurí Pujol
Email:
david.sauri@uab.cat

Teachers

Nuria Valdovinos Perdices
Hyerim Yoon

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

None.


Objectives and Contextualisation

Introduce the students to the most relevant aspects of the Physical and Human Geography of East Asian countries, including geopolitics, physiography, climate, river basins, population, agricultural and food systems, manufacturing, cities ant the environment. Through lectures and practical work in the classroom, it is expected that students will gain a basic knowledge of the Geography of East Asia and that this knowledge would be useful for them in other courses of the degree.


Competences

  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Developing self-learning strategies.
  • Ensuring the quality of one's own work.
  • Having interpersonal skills.
  • Knowing and comprehending the physic and human geography of East Asia.
  • Knowing and using the information and communication technology resources (ICT) in order to collect, produce, analyse and present information related to the East Asian Studies.
  • Promoting the sustainable development.
  • Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Students must be flexible and capable of adapting to new circumstances.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Assessing the obtained results in the information search process in order to update the knowledge about geography.
  2. Demonstrating knowledge about key concepts and theoretical frameworks of geography.
  3. Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  4. Developing self-learning strategies.
  5. Ensuring the quality of one's own work.
  6. Having interpersonal skills.
  7. Identifying and describing the human geography of East Asia.
  8. Identifying and describing the physical geography of East Asia.
  9. Promoting the sustainable development.
  10. Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  11. Students must be flexible and capable of adapting to new circumstances.
  12. Using different tools for specific purposes in the field of geography.
  13. Using the basic terminology of geography.

Content

Introductory course to the Geography of East Asia;Geopolitics Physical Geography, including Climate and River systems,  Population, Agriculture and Food, Energy and Manufacturing, Cities, and Environmental Issues.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lectures 55 2.2 1, 2, 7, 8, 12, 13
Tests 4 0.16 1, 2, 8, 12, 13
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials 12 0.48 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11
Type: Autonomous      
Student own work 75 3 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11

The methodology includes lectures and practical work (33 percent), student supervised work (12 percent), student own work (50 percent), and tests (5 percent).

The course will use the most common tools of the univeristy's online system, news, calendars, virtual areas for the submission of practical work, etc. 

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Practical work 20% 0 0 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Tests 80% (40% + 40%) 4 0.16 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Continuous assessment

Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing various tasks and tests. These activities are detailed in the table at the end of this section of the Study Guide.

Review

When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.

Missed/failed assessment activities

Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5.

The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for. In case of retaking, maximum grade will be 5 (Pass[JM1] ).

Classification as "not assessable"

In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.

Misconduct in assessment activities

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the student involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject. Assessment activities in which irregularities have occurred (e.g. plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from recovery

 

Evaluation activities

Two partial exams ( 40% of the final  grade each) 

 

The final grade corresponding to the exams will be the average of the grades obtained in each of the exams. This average will only be calculated if the grade for each exam is equal to or higher than 3. A grade lower than 3 will mean that the student must take the recuperation exam for the part not passed

Class Exercises Reports  in groups ( 20% of the final grade) 

 

 Single Assessment 

This subject may be assessed under the single assessment system in accordance with the terms established in the academic regulations of the UAB and the assessment criteria of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.

Students must make an online request within the period established by the faculty and send a copy to the teacher responsible for the subject, for the record.

Single assessment will be carried out in person on one day during week 16 or 17 of the semester. The Academic Management Office will publish the exact date and time on the faculty website.

On the day of the single assessment, teaching staff will ask the student for identification, which should be presented as a valid identification document with a recent photograph (student card, DNI/NIE or passport).

 

Single assessment activities

The final grade for the subject will be calculated according to the following percentages:

 

Two partial exams ( 40% of the final  grade each) 

Multiple choice exam ( 20% of the final grade) 

 

Grade revision and resit procedures for the subject are the same as those for continual assessment. See the section above in this study guide. 


Bibliography

Books

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  • BALL, P. (2017). The Water Kingdom. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
  • DELISLE,G. (2006). Pyongyang. Bilbao: Astiberri Ediciones
  • DELISLE, G. (2005). Shenzen . Bilbao: Astiberri Ediciones
  • DUNFORD, M. and WEIDONG,L. (eds) (2017). The Geographical Transformation of China. London: Routledge
  • COURMONT, B. (2010). Géopolitique du Japon. Perpignan: Artège.
  • DAYEZ-BURGEON, P. (2011). Les Coréens.  Paris: Editions Tallandier
  • GAVIRATI, P. (COORD) (2022). La Naturaleza del Japonismo
  • HADDAD, M.A. (2021). Effective Advocacy. Lessons from East Asia Environmentalists. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.
  • HOLDSTOCK, N. (2015). China's Forgotten People. Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State. London: I.B. Tauris
  • JING’AI WANG , SHUNLIN LIANG , PEIJUN SHI (2022). A Geography of Contemporany China. Beijing: Spreinger Cham
  • KANASAKA,K, (2009). Discovering Japan. A New Regional Geography. London: JPT Europe
  • KAPLAN, R.D. (2015). Asia's Cauldron. The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific. New York: Penguin Random House
  • KERR, A. (2001). Dogs and Demons. The Fall of Modern Japan. London: Penguin Books
  • LACOSTE, Y. (2008). Geopolítica. Madrid: Síntesis
  • LI, Y. AND SHAPIRO, J. (2020). China Goes Green. London: Polity Press
  • MARKS, R.B. (2012). China. Its Environment and History. Kanham UK: Rowan and Littlefield.
  • MILLER, T. (2019) Chin’a Asian Dream. London: Zed Books
  • ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE 29th INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS ( 2000): Korea. The Land and the People. Seoul: Kyohaksa
  • POMERANZ, K. (2000). The Great Divergence. China, Europe and the making of the Modern World Economy. Princenton. Princeton University Press,
  • RIOS, X. (2005). Taiwan, el problema de China. Madrid: Catarata.
  • RIOS, X.  (2012). China Pide Paso. Barcelona: ICARIA.
  • RUSSELL, M. J. (2008). Pop Goes Korea. Behind the revolution in movies, music and internet culture. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press.
  • SAMUELS, R.J. (2013) . 3.11 Disaster and Change in Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • SHAMBAUGH, D. (ED) (2020) China and the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • SHEPARD, W. (2015). Ghost Cities of China. London: Zed Books
  • STUDWELL,J. (2014).  How Asia Works. Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region. London: Profile Books.
  • TUAN, Yi –Fu (1969). A Historical Geography of China. Chicago: Aldine
  • TOTMAN, C. (2014): Japan. An Environmental History. London and New York: I.B. Tauris
  • VEEK, G., PANNELL, C.W., HUANG, Y and BAO; S (2016). China's Geography. Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change. Lanham, MD: Rowman &Little.
  • WEIGHTMAN, B.A. (2011). Dragons and Tigers. A geography of South, East and Southeast Asia. Hoboken NJ: John Wiley.
  • WOOLEY, P.J. (2005). Geography& Japan’s Strategic Choices. Washington DC: Potomac Books
  • WONG, D.W. S., WONG,K.K.K., CHUNG,H. and WANG,J.J. (2018). China. A Geographical Perspective. New York: Guilford Press

Atlases

  • Atlas of the people’s Republic of China. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press
  • BENEWICK,R. Y S.H. DONALD (2009):The State of China Atlas. Berkeley: University of California Press
  • PELLETIER, P. (2012) Atlas du Japón. Paris: Autrement
  • SELLIER, Jean (2002). Atlas de los pueblos de Asia meridional y oriental. Barcelona: Paidós.

Websites


Software

Microsoft Office Package


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(PAUL) Classroom practices 2 English first semester morning-mixed
(PAUL) Classroom practices 3 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 English first semester morning-mixed