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 4 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?
This course is open to 3rd and 4th year students. This course is open to all university students, but priority will be given to the Geography Degree Programmes, and Sustainable Development (Geography Pathway).
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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 the Geography Degree Programmes, and Sustainable Development (Geography Pathway). |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Course is available to visiting students |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 45 |
| 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) |
Essay Proposal (200-300 words and indicative bibliography) - formative
Reading portfolio sample (2 entries of 250 words) - formative
Reading portfolio (30%) - summative
Degree Essay (3000 words, 70%) - summative
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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 |
| 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: (01316) 502572
Email: lcorstor@ed.ac.uk |
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