3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1001812ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
The first chapter of the course focuses on the cartographic communication process and on the basic principles of cartographic design. Essential notions such as scale, generalisation and symbolisation are introduced.
The second part includes an overview of the history of cartography, with emphasis on cartographic activity in Europe, the Southern and Northern Netherlands, and Belgium.
The third part of the course focuses on thematic cartography, with emphasis on choropleth mapping, color perception and use of color. This part of the course includes a practical introduction to thematic cartography, in which the students learn how to select a suitable representation for mapping a spatial phenomenon and how to produce a thematic map using cartographic software.
a. What is cartography? What is a map?
b. The cartographic communication process
c. Basic principles of cartographic design
d. Scale and scale reduction
a. Various ways of studying the history of cartography
b. Prehistoric and “primitive” cartography
c. Cartography in Classical Antiquity
d. Cartography in Medieval Europe
e. The Renaissance of Western cartography
f. The Golden Age in the Northern Netherlands
g. The new cartography in France
f. Large-scale cartography of the Belgian territory
a. Equal intervals and quantiles approach
b. Mean-standard deviation method
c. Cluster-based approaches
d. The “optimal” classification method
e. Important considerations
a. The electromagnetic spectrum
b. Dimensions of colour
c. Theories of colour perception
d. Additive and subtractive colour mixing
e. The Munsell colour model
Nothing to be specified
After successful completion of this course students should:
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 50% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Lectures (including self study): oral exam (with written preparation)
Exercises thematic cartography: practical assignment map design capabilities (computer lab)
Calculation of mark:
50% oral exam + 50% practical assignment thematic cartography
Partial marks for the oral exam or the practical assignment, if the student obtains at least half of the score for these parts, are transferred to the second session and to the next academic year.
The student can relinquish his partial mark for the oral exam or the practical assignment, provided he reports this to the lecturer by e-mail not later than 15/8 (2nd session) or 1/10 (no transfer to the next academic year).
Once the student has indicated that he will abandon his partial mark, he will irrevocably lose the partial mark.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Political Science and Sociology: - afstudeerrichting sociologie, minor sociale geografie (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)