| Forest & Landscape | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination Portfolio Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Individual, oral examination in mandatory litterature and project. Weight: Oral examination: 100% 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Aflevering af projektrapport | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures, plenary discussions and presentations of group studies, written assignments, field trip, visits to relevant institutions | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 1 Week Structure: C | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Bacelor degree in Natural Resource Management, Landscape Architecture, Geography, Biology or something similar | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Competences within basic sciences: Multi-functionality: Comprehension of the fact that groups of people either do or do not share cultural values of how to use and manage landscapes and that differences might cause conflicts. Ability to transfer theories of and models for analysis of the meaning of landscape to new contexts. Applied Sciences: Knowledge and understanding of the historical development of the philosophies of the relations between culture and nature in general and within recreation and tourism in Denmark in particular. Comprehension of advantages and shortcomings of different means of nature interpretation. Ethics & Values: Ability to discuss a variety of meanings of landscape and concepts and put them into a theoretical or historical perspective. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| It is the goal of the course to make the students aware of their personal landscape values as well as to enable them to identify, analyze and compare the meanings of landscape of different stakeholders in order to generate appropriate management solutions for the countryside. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The perspectives of full time and hobby farmers, foresters, biologists or of people going for a walk might serve as examples of different and often conflicting interests in the countryside. In lectures the students will be introduced to different theoretical models (from semiotics, sociology, anthropology and the like) suitable for analyzing landscape values. Further values of selected groups of people will be presented, analyzed, discussed and put into a historical perspective. During the course the students will have to present and discuss different land use values in plenum and to write smaller essays on them. The main task of the students will be in groups of 3-4 to produce a paper analyzing and discussing the values in a case or meaning behind a concept using the presented theories, relevant litterature, interviews and the like. The grading will include the individually written essays and the paper. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fundamental theoretical understanding of the different meanings of landscape now and in other historical epochs will be presented in lectures and obtained through individual readings. Practical knowledge will be acquired on a field trip, through interviews with stakeholders and by visits to relevant institutions and organizations. Personal skills of analysis, interpretation and presentation will be developed through plenary discussions, written assignments and group presentations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Meinig, D.W. (1979): The Beholding Eye. "Ten versions of the Same Scene" in Meinig, D.W. (ed.) (1979): The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscape. Geographical essays, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, pp. 33-48 Porteous, J.D. (1996): Environmental Aesthetics. Ideas, politics and planning, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 43-110 Castree N.. & B. Braun (eds.) (2001): Social Nature. Theory, Practice, and Politics, Blackwell, USA, UK. Hansen-Møller, J. (2004): Mening med landskab. En antologi om natursyn, Museum Tusculanum, København. Binder of compulsory litterature will be at sale at the KVL bookstore. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jette Hansen-Møller, jhm@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 35331820 Liv Oustrup, livo@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 35331820 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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