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Syllabus

LK0374 Work Experience Course for Landscape Engineers, 15.0 Credits

Praktikkurs för landskapsingenjörer

Subjects

Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture

Education cycle

Bachelor’s level

Advanced study in the main field

First cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Bachelor’s level (GXX)

Grading scale

Language

Swedish

Prior knowledge

Knowledge equivalent to 45 credits in landscape architecture.

Objectives

The course aims to give the student a deeper understanding of the profession and its conditions.

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

Knowledge and understanding

• describe a workplace typical of the landscape engineering profession, its role and tasks in society and report it in a written report

Competence and skills

• apply acquired knowledge from the programme in independent practical work in a workplace

Judgement and approach

• reflect on their own practical experience of the landscape engineer’s professional role in the workplace and in society.

Content

The student is responsible for finding a relevant internship and a supervisor at the workplace. The internship and the supervisor must be approved by the course coordinator no later than two weeks before the start of the course. The student is also responsible for planning and conducting a study visit at the workplace for the teacher who is the contact person. The student follows the workplace’s routines during nine weeks of mandatory workplace placement. At the end of the course, the student submits a written reflection on the practice and presents the reflections orally at a compulsory seminar.

Grading form

The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.

Formats and requirements for examination

At least 80% attendance at the workplace during the internship period. Approved written assignment, oral presentation and participation in seminars.

• If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.

• The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.

• If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.

• For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Other information

• The right to participate in teaching and/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.

• If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Additional information

Each student is assigned a contact person at SLU who visits the student at the workplace.