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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of History, Classics and Archaeology : Postgraduate (History, Classics and Archaeology)

Postgraduate Course: Landscape and Environment: Diverse Approaches (PGHC11286)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Delivered by e-based distance learning
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Richard Rodger
Tel:
Email: Richard.Rodger@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk
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