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Syllabus

LB0094 Summer course in Agrarian History, 10.0 Credits

Sommarkurs i agrarhistoria

Subjects

Landscape Architecture Agricultural Science Agricultural science Landscape Architecture

Education cycle

Bachelor’s level

Modules

Title	Credits	Code
Single module	10.0	0002

Advanced study in the main field

First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Bachelor’s level (G1N)

Grading scale

Language

Swedish

Prior knowledge

General entry requirements.

Objectives

In the summer course in Agrarian History you learn to understand how the landscape has been influenced by agrciutlure, by farmers work and the grazing of farm animals, and how and why land use has chaged through history.

Upon completion of the course, the students shall be able to:

• Account for the overall development of agriculture in Sweden

• Account for general principles of the spatial organisation of the agrarian landscape, and how and why this has changed over time

• Identify and interpret relics of agrarian history in the landscape

• Account for characteristic features of the biological content of the agrarian landscape

• Account for various methods of cultivation over time

Content

The course includes lectures, field excursions and practical exercises. Individual tasks during not scheduled weeks.

In the summer course in Agrarian History you learn to understand how the landscape has been influenced by agrciutlure, by farmers work and the grazing of farm animals, and how and why land use has chaged through history. The course includes also an overview of Swedish agrarian history with regard to traditional animal husbandry, cultivation and technologies, and basic terminology of the field. During field excursions we are identifying and discussing indicators of various relics of different times, still visible in the rural landscape, as well as biotopes and vegetation favoured by and related to agricultural cultivation, and impact of fertilizing.

Grading form

The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.

Formats and requirements for examination

Examination is partly accomplished in field, but also through project work and take home examination. Good attendance rate at lectures and excercises in a prerequisite to manage the examination.

• If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.

• The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.

• If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.

• For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Other information

• The right to participate in teaching and/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.

• If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Responsible department

Department of Urban and Rural Development