GLA301 Introduction to Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability
Credits (ECTS):5
Course responsible:Kerstin Potthoff
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Engelsk
Limits of class size:25 students
Course frequency:Every year
Nominal workload:125 hours
Teaching and exam period:August block
About this course
The course introduces key terms such as "landscape" and "sustainability" and how they have been understood and applied throughout history. Moreover, the course provides insights into global trends in landscape change and drivers thereof, e.g. modernization, urbanization, climate change, and how societies respond to these changes.
The course is an arena to reflect on the wide range of methods and techniques applied within landscape architecture, such as mapping, surveying, landscape analysis and interpretation, design thinking and design-research. Students discuss and assess peer perspectives and expertise and receive feedback from staff.
Learning outcome
The course aims at providing students with knowledge about global trends of landscape change and their drivers. Students are introduced to tools and methods which can be deployed to investigate global challenges in a local context.
Knowledge: Students gain insight into the basic ecological, economic and socio-political baselines, which drive landscape change.
Skills: Students are able to apply tools available for representation of landscapes in a field context.
General competence: Based on a case study approach, students get an understanding of how local and global processes and conditions manifest themselves in the landscape and to which degree knowledge of transformation processes in a certain landscape can be transferred to other case studies.
- Lectures, workshops, group discussions, assignments, reviews.
- Feedback and reviews in small peer groups and in plenary sessions
- Relevant bachelor
Portfolio evaluation
Portfolio consisting of assignments; all assignments need to be passed to complete the course
Grading: pass/no pass
All assignments are given and have to be submitted in ENGLISH ONLY.
Portfolio Grading: Passed / Not Passed- An external examiner evaluates the course and the way students are evaluated.
- Expected full-time attendance.
- Ca. 30 hours of structured teaching: e.g. lectures, facilitated workshops, group discussions, assignments, reviews
- Students enrolled in M-GLA are given priority.
- Admission to M-GLA, forth or fith year M-LA. Students from M-GLA are given priority.