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Semester 2

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

Subject

Geography

College

SCE

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

4

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Course 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 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.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Assessment Information

Group presentation (10%)Essay Proposal (200-300 words and indicative bibliography) no gradeReading portfolio sample (2 entries of 250 words) no gradeReading portfolio (30%)Degree Essay (3000 words, 60%)Assessment deadlines:Group presentation Week 9Reading portfolio Week 7 Degree Essay Week 11

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