Postgraduate Course: Landscape and Environment: Diverse Approaches (PGHC11286)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | 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. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Delivered by e-based distance learning |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Richard Rodger
Tel:
Email: Richard.Rodger@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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