LK0420, Landscape architecture and text, 7.5 Hp
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Syllabus

Finalized by: Programnämnden för utbildning inom landskap och trädgård (PN - LT), 2021-11-15
Valid from : Autumn semester 2022 (2022-08-29)

Level

First cycle (G2F)

Main field of study

Landscape Architecture

Grading Scale

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.

Course language

Swedish

Entry Requirements

Objectives

The aim of the course is for the student to develop the ability to read and write academic texts in landscape architecture and its associated theoretical subject areas with emphasis on both content and language. This creates an understanding of how a scientific work is set up, carried out and tested. In addition, the student develops a familiarity with the academic seminar culture.

Knowledge and understanding After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• explain and apply selected social sciences and arts and humanities theories and methods.

Skills and Abilities After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• write a shorter academic text; -apply their knowledge in analytical reading;
• participate in academic conversations (seminar culture).

Evaluation ability and approach After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• relate to theories or methods that are dealt with in scientific texts in order to critically process one’s own questions.

Content

Landscape architecture is an interdisciplinary field. This means that ideas, concepts and approaches from many disciplines are relevant for understanding and developing planning, design and management of landscapes. The course provides an orientation on approaches and scientific traditions that are important for the subject. Special emphasis is placed on working with some selected theories and methods in social sciences and arts and humanities.

In lectures, reading of course literature and compulsory seminars, the student examines, for example, concrete landscapes, designed outdoor environments, planning ideas, approaches to alternative management, discussions within the profession or discipline, etc. with the help of theories and methods in social sciences and arts and humanities. We ask, for example, how theories in cultural geography and aesthetics or discourse analytically inspired and ethnographic methods can contribute to understanding and analysing problems in landscape architecture.

In a final writing assignment, academic writing is practiced by the student analysing and interpreting a landscape, a landscape architecture project, a debate or the like. The student uses treated concepts and approaches as examples to understand what it means to apply theories and methods in their own work. The student is supported in this task through compulsory seminars where the student gives and takes constructive criticism of the texts and trains in processing a material based on given criticism.

Examination Formats and Requirements for Passing the Course

The course is examined with approved participation in compulsory seminars and individual writing exercises.

Responsible Department/Equivalent

Department of Urban and Rural Development

Supplementary information

Included in program

• Landskapsarkitektprogrammet - Uppsala

Module set

Title	Credits	Code
Single module	7.5	0101

The Course Replaces

Delar av LK0350, delar av LK0168.