Reading the structures of space – geographical and historical approach 1600-SZD-ID-OSP
The aim of the course is to familiarize PhD students with the basic sources and research methods of historical geography, enabling them to conduct group-based, practical studies on the relationship between humans and space in the so-called "long" 19th century in rural areas.The course is divided into two parts: 1. Lecture and discussion part - this part aims to introduce PhD students to the history of historical geography in Europe, presenting both traditional approaches within the subdiscipline and modern perspectives that integrate classical historical geography with microhistory, sociology, cultural anthropology, and ethnography. Participants will gain the theoretical and methodological foundation for studying the social geography of 19th-century villages and analyzing the influence of the natural environment as well as political, social, and economic transformations on the spatial behavior of rural populations, including marriage mobility, based on records in parish registers. Students will become acquainted with a variety of sources for early modern and 19th-century historical geography, including historical-geographical dictionaries, cartographic sources, court records, parish registers, and chronicles. They will receive practical guidance on searching such sources online and acquire basic palaeographic skills, learning to transcribe 19th-century handwritten materials from various regions of Poland. 2. Practical (workshop) part - PhD students will attempt to index information and create a database, and then, following the instructor's guidance, use GIS tools to produce schematic maps illustrating and analyzing the selected research problem
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge | The graduate knows and understands:
WG_02 - the main development trends in the disciplines of the social sciences in which the education is provided
Skills | The graduate is able to:
UW_01 – make use of knowledge from various fields of science, in particular the social sciences in order to creatively identify, formulate and innovatively solve complex problems or perform tasks of a research nature, and in particular to: define the purpose and object of scientific research in the field of the social sciences, formulate a research hypothesis; develop research methods, techniques and tools and apply them creatively; make inferences based on scientific findings
UK_04 - participating in scientific discourse in the field of the social sciences
Social competences | The graduate is ready to
KK_01 - critically evaluating achievements within a given scientific discipline in the field of the social sciences
And others: The doctoral student knows the basics of the historical-geographical workshop (including neographic), so he can independently use source materials.
Assessment criteria
Description of requirements related to participation in classes, including the permitted number of explained absences: Requirements: activity during class; number of explained absences allowed: 2
Principles for passing the classes and the subject (including resit session): Kliknij lub naciśnij tutaj, aby wprowadzić tekst.
Methods for the verification of learning outcomes: Attendance list, activity during the class.
Evaluation criteria: Use of skills acquired during the workshop.
Practical placement
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Bibliography
F. Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century. Vol. II: The Wheels of Commerce, transl. S. Reynolds, University of California Press, 1992; G. C. Garg, Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of “Small Spaces” and Cities, Comparative Studies in Society and History (Vol. 66, Issue 1, January 2024); B. Suanet & H. Bras, The role of the wedding place. Communitycontext and marital timing in nineteenth and early twentieth century Netherlands, The History of theFamily, 15:3 (2010), s. 316-332; B. Szady, Geografia historyczna w Polsce - rozwój i perspektywy, „Studia Geohistorica“ 1 (2013), s. 19–38; J. Tyszkiewcz, Geografia historyczna: Zarys problematyki, Warszawa 2014.
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