Master
University of Ljubljana FACULTY OF ARTS

The course is introducing students with the physical- and human geography amenities of Slovenia, their importance for landscape complex, and as well for former, present and future development of the state. Student is capable of analysing the interdependencies among physical- and human geographical components (on selected examples) and is aware of actual geographical issues of Slovenia, its landscapes/regions.

Content (Syllabus outline):

1. The position and consequences of position of Slovenia in the middle geographical latitudes and in the junction of major European natural units.
2. Relief of Slovenia and recent surface transformation processes.
3. Soils and their degradation and threatenes.
4. Weather and climate heterogeneousity and changeability.
5. Water resoures of Slovenia and their importance.
6. The essential transformation processes in Slovenian cultural landscapes during the 20th Century (industrialization, deagrarization, motorization, uniformity, corridors, peripherialization).
7. The key restructuring factors of Slovenian cultural landscapes at the beginning of the 21st Century (deindustrialization, tertialization, globalization, glokalization, networking).
8. The issues of contemporary Slovenia (economic developments, traffic, environmental issues, energy, health, Slovenes in the ethnical areas and diaspora).
9. Demographic processes of Slovenia
10. Regionalization of Slovenia.

The course is introducing students with the physical- and human geography amenities of Slovenia, their importance for landscape complex, and as well for former, present and future development of the state. Student is capable of analysing the interdependencies among physical- and human geographical components (on selected examples) and is aware of actual geographical issues of Slovenia, its landscapes/regions.

Content (Syllabus outline):

1. The position and consequences of position of Slovenia in the middle geographical latitudes and in the junction of major European natural units.
2. Relief of Slovenia and recent surface transformation processes.
3. Soils and their degradation and threatenes.
4. Weather and climate heterogeneousity and changeability.
5. Water resoures of Slovenia and their importance.
6. The essential transformation processes in Slovenian cultural landscapes during the 20th Century (industrialization, deagrarization, motorization, uniformity, corridors, peripherialization).
7. The key restructuring factors of Slovenian cultural landscapes at the beginning of the 21st Century (deindustrialization, tertialization, globalization, glokalization, networking).
8. The issues of contemporary Slovenia (economic developments, traffic, environmental issues, energy, health, Slovenes in the ethnical areas and diaspora).
9. Demographic processes of Slovenia
10. Regionalization of Slovenia.