Undergraduate Course: Landscape Architecture Theory 2B (ARCH08048)
Course Outline
School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | The course will address the significance of established and emerging theoretical themes within the discipline of Landscape Architecture and build on patterns of enquiry established in ARCH08046 (Landscape Architecture Theory 2A). The course will further the students ability to carry forward an independent position in their own theoretical studies and offer guidance as to suitable methodologies of scholarly enquiry. The course will also address relevant approaches towards the critical evaluation of the work of others. |
Course description |
The course will examine the complex and shifting nature of landscape through enquiry related to the interpretation of landscape as a constantly mediated entity in both social and environmental contexts. Course content will address the context of landscape architectural practice today with a particular focus on how Landscape Architects read, work with and ultimately transform sites. A focused enquiry related to time, ecology and resilience will provide a pedagogical background from which students can draw forth their own disciplinary research and a personalised line of enquiry.
Students will be encouraged to discover and examine Interdisciplinary theory from art, science and engineering and reflect upon its significance to Landscape Architectural discourse.
Lectures, given by staff and invited experts will be followed by discursive sessions where students can probe the material presented through the lens of their own developing enquiry. Students will be asked to format questions in advance of lectures to enrich post lecture discussion.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to ECA students on degree programmes belonging to Landscape Architecture. |
Additional Costs | Day visits by coach. |
Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 40 |
Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Formative Assessment Hours 4,
Summative Assessment Hours 4,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
158 )
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Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Additional Information (Assessment) |
Summative Assessments:
One single submission containing two distinct components (100%) -
a) visual presentation about a line of enquiry in week 7 and
b) final submission of a 3,000-word essay due in the Examination Period.
Relationship between Assessment and Learning Outcomes
Assessment Component a) relates directly to Learning Outcomes 1 and 2.
Assessment Component b) relates directly to all Learning Outcomes - 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Students have to pass all four Learning Outcomes.
All Learning Outcomes are weighted equally.
Failure to pass a Learning Outcome will result in a Forced Fail.
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Feedback |
Written formative feedback will be given 15 working days after submission of chapter outline in week 4.
You will also receive verbal formative feedback during visual presentation on week 7.
Moreover, you will also receive written summative feedback 15 working days after the submission of the essay during examination period. |
No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an ability to translate and interpret key theories in Landscape Architecture.
- Demonstrate an ability to scope wider theoretical and disciplinary contexts in order to formulate a sequence of core themes that represent the students own disciplinary interests.
- Develop a clear research question that draws from core themes in the form of a research abstract.
- Demonstrate an ability to structure and advance theoretical enquiry through appropriate research methods and techniques.
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Reading List
Corner, J (1999) Recovering Landscape, Princeton Arch. Press, NY.
Crowe, N (1995) Nature and the idea of a man-made world: an investigation into the evolutionary roots of form and order in the built environment, MIT Press, London
Bell, S Herlin, I.S (2012) Exploring the boundaries of Landscape Architecture Routledge, New York
Spirn, Anne Whiston (2000) The language of landscape, Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Swaffield, S (2002) Theory in Landscape Architecture - A Reader, University of Pennsylvania Press |
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Demonstrate a knowledge of the scope, defining features, and main areas of the subject/discipline/sector. Including; a discerning understanding of a defined range of core theories, concepts, principles and terminology.
Apply knowledge, skills and understanding: in using a range of professional skills, techniques, practices and/or materials associated with the subject/discipline/sector, a few of which are advanced and /or complex.
Undertake critical analysis, evaluation and/or synthesis of ideas, concepts, information and issues that are within the common understandings in a subject/ discipline/sector; use a range of approaches to formulate and critically evaluate evidence-based solutions/responses to defined and/or routine problems and issues.
Convey complex information to a range of audiences and for a range of purposes. |
Keywords | landscape architecture,resilience,landscape reclamation,landscape engineering,temporality |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Francisca Lima
Tel: (0131 6)51 5862
Email: francisca.lima@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Karen Biggar
Tel: (0131 6)51 5803
Email: Karen.Biggar@ed.ac.uk |
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