Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the module students should demonstrate:
Understanding: Select a topic of inquiry in consultation with relevant members of academic staff and establish individual academic research skills, develop and demonstrate critical thinking skills as instruments for appraisal and innovation in the culture of landscape architecture.
Analysis: Demonstrate engagement with research methods in the analysis of a site, and engagement with research methods and theory as they relate to landscape architecture.
Academic Writing/Research skills: Demonstrate ability to research and critically review the appropriate literature, interpret findings against what is already known in the field of study, and the skills of communication and documentation research to generate and conclude a research quest.
Presentation: Communicate effectively to academic conventions using info-graphics/ visual diagrams in a final well-referenced and illustrated essay.
Indicative Module Content:
This module is to develop and articulate a research question and is a support to developing a position or a thesis in the following semester. The module will include a literature review, fieldwork, analysis of current policy, and site analysis.
Target is 8,000 word count illustrated essay fully structured and references with a reduction in work count offset by use of other media. Alternative forms of assessment to be agreed with the Module Coordinator. Soft binding only.