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. The course provides insights into global trends in landscape change and drivers thereof, and how societies respond to these changes. Moreover, the course introduces a selection of techniques and tools that are used to represent landscapes. The course is an arena for reflection and discussion.

Learning outcome

The course aims at providing students with knowledge about global trends of landscape change and their drivers. Students are introduced to tools which can be deployed to investigate global challenges in a local context.

Knowledge: Students gain insight into key terms addressed in the GLA program and core drivers of 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.

  • Learning activities
    Lectures, workshops, group discussions, assignments, reviews
  • Teaching support
    Feedback and reviews in small peer groups and in plenary sessions
  • Prerequisites
    Relevant bachelor
  • Assessment method

    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 Karakterregel: Passed / Not Passed
  • Examiner scheme
    An external examiner approves the assessment scheme of the course.
  • Mandatory activity
    Expected full-time attendance.
  • Teaching hours
    Ca. 30 hours of structured teaching: e.g. lectures, facilitated workshops, group discussions, assignments, reviews
  • Preferential right
    Students enrolled in M-GLA are given priority.
  • Admission requirements
    Admission to M-GLA, fourth- or fifth-year M-LA. Students from M-GLA are given priority.