GLA301 Introduction to Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability

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.