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Undergraduate Course: Land and Landscape: Explorations in Society and Nature (GEGR10125)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course aims to develop the students' understanding of the key geographical concept of landscape. In adopting a temporal approach to the topic the course will emphasise the centrality of landscape to the history of (cultural) geographical thinking.
Course description This course asks students to consider landscape not as a physical entity, but as a social creation. In doing so it ask questions such as why some landscapes are considered beautiful, and others are not? Who decides how a landscape should look, and what it represents? How landscapes make us feel, and act in their presence? Using examples of artworks, films, policy documents, popular writing and media reports it will explore the various ways landscape is experienced, created, and put to use in a variety of geographical and historical contexts. Lectures will be supported by a series of tutorials in which students will explore landscape themes by drawing on their own observations, experiences and readings.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Engage with philosophical understanding of nature/society
  2. Trace the ways in which Cultural Geography has engaged with the concept of landscape
  3. Produce an individual research project which deals with a key idea or a landscape of their choice
  4. Work beyond the disciplinary boundaries of geography
Reading List
Landscape, Wylie J (2007), London: Routledge
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsLand,Landscape,Geohumanities,Representation,Practice,Politics
Contacts
Course organiserDr Rachel Hunt
Tel: (0131 6)50 2548
Email: rachel.hunt@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Carry Arnold
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
Email: Carry.Arnold@ed.ac.uk
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