Undergraduate Course: Land and Landscape: Explorations in Society and Nature (GEGR10125)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This 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 questions of landscape. Why do we find some beautiful, why others not? Who belongs in a landscape? Who doesn't? And who decides? What kind of approaches have geographers used to answer these questions across (roughly) the last decade years? How have recent creative approaches expanded our understandings of landscapes? How can landscape geographers aid in policy making?
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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 open to 3rd and 4th year students. This course is open to all university students, but priority will be given to students on the Geography Degree Programmes. Students from other programmes may be able to join if there is space. Please contact geoset.ug.drummond@ed.ac.uk to check availability. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This is a fourth-year honours level course; students are expected to have an academic profile equivalent to the first three years of this degree programme. Assessment of eligibility for honours level courses will be made on an individual basis.
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, 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 22,
Formative Assessment Hours 5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
169 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Reading Portfolio (30%)
Degree Essay (70%)
Students must attain an overall mark of 40% (or above) in order to pass the course.
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| Feedback |
Written feedback on formative and summative work. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Engage with philosophical understanding of nature/society.
- Trace the ways in which Cultural Geography has engaged with the concept of landscape.
- Produce an individual research project which deals with a key idea or a landscape of their choice.
- Work beyond the disciplinary boundaries of geography.
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Reading List
| Landscape, Wylie J (2007), London: Routledge |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
This course is open to 3rd and 4th year students. This course is open to all university students, but priority will be given to students on the Geography Degree Programmes. Students from other programmes may be able to join if there is space. Please contact geoset.ug.drummond@ed.ac.uk to check availability. |
| Keywords | Land,Landscape,Geohumanities,Representation,Practice,Politics |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Rachel Hunt
Tel: (0131 6)50 2548
Email: rachel.hunt@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Leigh Corstorphine
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
Email: lcorstor@ed.ac.uk |
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