Landscape and Environment: Diverse Approaches (P02734)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-LEDA

This is one of two courses that familiarise students with different disciplinary approaches to the study of landscape and environmental history. Fortifications, farming, and forestry form elements in a 'neolithic to nuclear' long run survey of changes in the natural environment. Contributions from archaeology, ecology and on natural resources provide pathways that lead in year 2 to more specialist treatments in each of these areas.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Additional Class Information : Delivered by e-based distance learning

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

(b) Knowledge and understanding:
- knowledge of the chief methods of understanding landscape
- detailed understanding of major changes in the nature and history of Scottish landscape
- ability to place local and regional landscape studies in the context of an international literature

(b) Intellectual skills:
• ability to develop tight and coherent argument
• ability to evaluate and analyse a wide variety of sources