LARC10110 Understanding the Landscape

Academic Year 2024/2025

This module helps develop an understanding of the landscape as a complex, ever-changing place. We'll discuss the concept of landscape and analyse its various scales, definitions, meanings and values through readings, writing, walks, talks, looking, seeing. feeling, and describing, in words, as well as through drawings and painting. The UCD campus is explored as a living classroom, and palimpsest, where physical, biological and cultural aspects of an ancient landscape are hidden in plain sight, waiting to be discovered.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this module students will:
1. Recognise that the term “landscape” carries a multiplicity of meanings and is used by a range of disciplines;
2. Understand the environmental and cultural processes that have shaped the Irish landscape;
3. Be able to consider a particular landscape and identify the environmental forces and cultural activities that have shaped it.
4. Understand why landscape is emerging as an area of interest for environmental policy makers, academics and the general public and why landscape change can be a contentious issue.

Indicative Module Content:

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

10
Specified Learning Activities

30
Autonomous Student Learning

50
Online Learning

25
Total

115
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The approach is on active learning, we build on what students already know.
 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade

Not yet recorded.

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring Yes - 1 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

General feedback on in-semester assignment will be issued to students in class, with individual feedback issued in writing. Face to face tutorial at the request of the student.

Name Role
Assoc Professor John Fry Lecturer / Co-Lecturer