Course descriptions for ERASMUS students
1st semester, academic year 2006/2007

Faculty of Science / Economic and Social Geography

Course Code  
Title: Hungary – land, people, regions
Teacher: Péter Bajmócy, Faculty of Science / Economic and Social Geography
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Module Aims
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The special aim of the course: the participants will be able to understand the geography of Hungary , get knowledge about the people of Hungary and the neighbouring countries and also get information about the different regions of Hungary . They can become acquinted with the useful data and other information sources during the course.

Module Subject

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The issues of the module:

  1. Hungary : location and physical geography
  2. Hungary : people, demography
  3. The Hungarians. National minorities in the Carpathian-Basin
  4. The Roma (Gipsy) population of Hungary
  5. Religions in the Carpathian-Basin
  6. Traditions and gastronomy in Hungary
  7. Regionalism in Hungary . Regions I.
  8. Regions II.
Number of Credits 2

Course Code  
Title: Population and settlement geography of Hungary
Teacher: Péter Bajmócy, Faculty of Science / Economic and Social Geography
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Module Aims
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The special aim of the course: the participants will be able to understand the geography of Hungary, get knowledge about the people and the settlements (towns, villages) of Hungary and also get information about the regional differences of the settlement system and demographic processes in Hungary. They can become acquinted with the useful data and other information sources during the course.

Module Subject

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The issues of the module:

  1. The population and demography of Hungary
  2. The structure of the population
  3. Ethnic and religious differences in the Carpathian-Basin
  4. Development of the settlement-system in Hungary
  5. Towns of Hungary
  6. Urbanization, urban agglomerations in Hungary
  7. Villages in Hungary
  8. Scattered settlements in Hungary
  9. Regional differences in the settlement-network
Number of Credits 2

Course Code  
Title: Tourism Development in Hungary
Teacher: Tünde Juray, Faculty of Science / Economic and Social Geography
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Module Aims
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The special aim of the course: the participants will be able to understand the Hungarian tourism system and policy and to compare the Hungarian model their mother country ones by the end of the lecture. They can become acquinted with the useful data and other information sources during the course.

Module Subject

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The issues of the module:

  1. Institutional and legal background of the Hungarian tourism
  2. The history of tour operation in Hungary
  3. Tourism policy in Hungary
  4. Regional development and tourism
  5. Regional differences in Hungarian tourism
  6. Tourism marketing activity
  7. Tendences the domestic tourism in Hungary especially the processes after 1990
  8. Hungary 's incoming (international) tourism
  9. The role of tourism in the hard city competition
  10. Regional and local tourism planning, making tourism conceptions (case studies)
Number of Credits 2

Course Code  
Title: Die Euroregionen und die Grenzregionen der neu beigetretenen Länder (mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Ungarn)
Teacher: Miklósné SZÓNOKY, Faculty of Science / Economic and Social Geography
Contact: Miklósné Szónoky
Module Aims
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Ziel: die Regionalität, die Regionen, genauer die Euroregionen bekanntmachen, bzw. die Untersuchungen/Forschungen in den Grenzregionen der neu beigetretenen Länder (mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Ungarn) darstellen.

Module Subject

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Fragestellungen: Was für eine Herausforderung bedeutete und bedeutet heute die Regionalität in den beigetretenen - früher sozalistischen - Ländern.
Im Kurs wird besonders ausführlich darauf eingegangen, was für neue Formen der Kooperation in den Grenzregionen Ungarn-Serbien, Ungarn-Rumänien entstanden sind. Szeged wird als Zentrum der Region und als Tor zum Balkan vorgestellt.
Thematik:
a) In Zentrum-Position am Rande des Landes (Szeged)
b) Gesellschaftliche und Kooperationen in den asymmetrischen Grenzgebieten: ungarisch-serbisch-rumänische Perspektiven.
c) Wirtschaftliche Entwicklungslinien in den regionalen Kooperationen des Donau-Mieresch-Theiß-Gebietes

Number of Credits 2

 

Faculty of Science / Physical Geography and Geoinformatics

Course Code  
Title: Physical Geography of of the Carpathian Basin
Teacher: Tímea KISS, Faculty of Science / Physical Geography and Geoinformatics
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Module Aims
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The aim of the course is to give a description about the physical geography of Hungary and the rest of the Carpathian Basin. Besides this it pays attention to the environmental change and human impact on this region.

Module Subject

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  1. Geographical situation of the Carpathian Basin
  2. Geology and the most important natural resources
  3. Climate, soils, biogeoraphy
  4. Rivers, lakes, thermal waters
  5. Geographical and geomorphological regions
  6. Environmental change and human impact during the late Quaternary Project:
  7. Compare two geographical regions, with special respect to the human activity.
  8. Give a description of a National Park, focusing on the conflict between park and the neighbouring lands (land use, waste, disturbances etc.)

 

Number of Credits 5

Course Code  
Title: Seminar on Applied Hydrography
Teacher: György SIPOS, Faculty of Science / Physical Geography and Geoinformatics
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Module Aims
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1. To point on the facts, that

  • the river regulations altered the river regime differently on different rivers
  • the rivers reached different equilibrium stages and they responded in different ways

2. To teach the students how to evaluate and present hydrological data

Module Subject

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  1. Development of the drainage network of the Great Plain since the Pleistocene, with special respect to Holocene changes
  2. Review of regulation works (main ideas, facts, consequences)
  3. Evaluation of hydrological parameters (stage, discharge, bed geometry, slope etc.)
  4. Evaluation of morphological changes on the floodplain (horizontal and vertical river bed changes, island and bar formation, land slides on the banks, point bar formation)
  5. Flood hazard estimation in a certain area
Number of Credits 5

Course Code  
Title: Seminar on Applied Geography
Teacher: Gábor MEZŐSI, Faculty of Science / Physical Geography and Geoinformatics
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Module Aims
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The aim of the course to introduce the students to urban ecology, landscape planning and applied geomorphology, using Hungarian case studies. A special attention will be paid on relations between the system-elements of the different landscapes. Furthermore, the aim is to teach the students how to evaluate and present field measurements

Module Subject

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Urban ecology:

    1. Effects of urban land-use on physical geographical parameters (soil, climate, ground water)
    2. Urban land use and urban ecological mapping
    3. Application of databases and digital images in urban ecological investigations

Landscape planning:

    1. Urban planning
    2. Green surface management
    3. Protection against soil erosion caused by wind and running water
    4. Geomorphology of agriculture
    5. Environmental impact assessment of investments (motorways, land-use changes, irrigation etc.)

Applied geomorphology:

    • Monitoring geomorphological change, geomorphological mapping
    • Floodplains and flooding
    • River regulations
    • Geomorphological assessments of slope failure
Number of Credits 5

Course Code  
Title: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF LANDSCAPES, case studies in Hungary
Teacher: Andrea KISS, Faculty of Science / Physical Geography and Geoinformatics
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Module Aims
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The course provides an overview of the conditions and evolution of landscapes in the Carpathian Basin through the last two thousand years, in comparison with the landscape changes which took part in other parts of Europe, with special emphasis on the high and late medieval as well as early modern times.

Module Subject

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  1. Main factors of landscape changes and the significance of human impact
  2. Sources of reconstruction in different time periods: available material, methods and problems
  3. Historical elements in the present Hungarian landscape: „objects” and prevailing structures
  4. Land exploitation and landscape management strategies in historical times: an overview
  5. Historical landscapes of historical Hungary in given time layers: Roman Times, Middle Ages, Turkish Period, Eighteenth-Ninteenth Centuries
  6. Main landscape changes of
    1. plain&wetland landscapes and former hydrology (before regulation works)
    2. hilly and forested landscapes in central position
    3. the mountaineous regions
    4. historical urban landscapes
Number of Credits 5

 

Faculty of Science / Department of Software Engineering
Informatics

Course Code  
Title: Programming-II.
Teacher: Zoltán ALEXIN, Faculty of Science / Department of Software Engineering
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Module Aims
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C/C++ is a widely used object-oriented programming language, it is the main platform of most industrial software development, especially for Microsoft Windows. The module gives the essential knowledge on syntax and usage of this programming language.

Module Subject

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C/C++ objects’ scope, namespaces and classes. Embedded types and classes. Inheritance between classes. The life-cycle of objects (construction and destruction). Constructor, copy constructor and destructor methods. Operator overloading, using smart pointers and overloading the type cast methods. The member-pointers. Static and late binding procedure calls, the C and pascal type of procedure calls. Virtual methods and abstract classes. Static data members and methods in classes. Templates and the Standard Template Library. Elementary introduction to C#.
Number of Credits 5

 

Faculty of Science / Department of Informatics
Informatics

Course Code IB402e-2a
Title: Operating Systems
Teacher: Árpád MAKAY, Faculty of Science / Department of Informatics
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Module Aims
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Operating systems are an essential part of any computer system. Similarly, a course on operating systems is an essential part of any computer-science education. The fundamental concepts remain fairly clear, and it is on these that we base this course.

This is an introductory course in operating systems at the junior or senior undergraduate level or at the first-year graduate level. It provides a clear description of the concepts that underlie operating systems.

Module Subject

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  • Overview: What operating systems are, what they do, and how they are designed and constructed. What the common features of an operating system are, what an operating system does for the user, and what it does for the computer-system operator and processes.
  • Process management: The process concept and concurrency as the heart of modern operating systems. A process is the unit of work in a system. Such a system consists of a collection of concurrently executing processes, some of which are operating-system processes  Also included under this topic a discussion of threads.
  • Memory management: The main memory management during the execution of a process. To improve both the utilization of the CPU and the speed of its response to its users. There are many different memory-management schemes, reflecting various approaches to memory management, and the effectiveness of a particular algorithm depends on the situation.
  • I/O and Resource management: How the file system, mass storage, and I/O are handled in a modern computer system.
  • Protection and security: The processes in an operating system must be protected from one another's activities. Protection is a mechanism for controlling the access of programs, processes, or users to the resources defined by a computer system.
Number of Credits 4

 

Faculty of Science / Department of Applied and Numerical Analysis
Mathematics

Course Code Mm 3505-1a
Title: Numerical Analysis (lecture+practice)
Teacher: László STACHÓ, Faculty of Science / Department of Applied and Numerical Analysis
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Module Aims
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Module Subject

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  • Systems of linear equations. Gaussion elimination, the triangular decomposation of a matrix. The Gauss-Jordan elimination, partial pivot selection. The Cholesky de composition. The QR decomposition of a matrix.
  • Eigenvalue problems. Gershgorin circles. The Schur normal form of a matrix. The LR and QR algorithms.
  • Iterative methods for the solution of a system of linear equations. The Jacobi method, the Gauss-Seidel method. Relaxation methods. The classical Newton-Raphson method.
  • Interpolation by polynomials. The interpolation formulas of Lagrange and Newton, divided differences. Hermite interpolation.
  • Least squares problems, the normal equations. Discrete Fourier transform and fast Fourier transform.
  • Numerical integration. Newton-Cotes quadrature formulas. Classical systems of orthogonal polynomials. Gauss quadrature formulas.
Number of Credits 4

Course Code Mx265e+g
Title: First Course in Probability Theory (lecture+practice)
Teacher: László STACHÓ, Faculty of Science / Department of Applied and Numerical Analysis
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Module Aims
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Module Subject

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  • Basic concepts of probablity, Kolmogorov’s axioms for probability fields, Poicaré formula, classical and geometrical probability fields, conditional probability, stochastic independence, Bayes formula, product fields.
  • Random variables and their distributions, density functions. random vectors and their multivariable distributions resp. density functions, independence of random variables, expectations of random variables and their functions, Schwarz inequality, variance , and standard deviance, Markov’s inequality, Chebishev’s inequality, covariance and correlation coefficient.
  • Distributions of Bernoulli type, distributions of binomial-, polynomial-,hypergeometric-, geometric- ,negative binomial-, Poisson-, normal-, uniform-,exponential-,Chi-square-,Student- and F types.
  • Borel-Cantelli lemmas, stochastic and slmost sure convergence for sequences of random variables, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem, de Moivre-Laplace theorem.
Number of Credits 5