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Syllabus

LK0420 Landscape architecture and text, 7.5 Credits

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Subjects

Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture

Education cycle

Bachelor’s level

Modules

Title	Credits	Code
Single module	7.5	0101

Advanced study in the main field

First cycle, has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Bachelor’s level (G2F)

Grading scale

Language

Swedish

Prior knowledge

Knowledge equivalent to 80 credits landscape architecture.

Objectives

The aim of the course is for the student to develop the ability to read and write academic texts in landscape architecture and its associated theoretical subject areas with emphasis on both content and language. This creates an understanding of how a scientific work is set up, carried out and tested. In addition, the student develops a familiarity with the academic seminar culture.

Knowledge and understanding

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• explain and apply selected social sciences and arts and humanities theories and methods.

Skills and Abilities

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• write a shorter academic text;

-apply their knowledge in analytical reading;

• participate in academic conversations (seminar culture).

Evaluation ability and approach

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• relate to theories or methods that are dealt with in scientific texts in order to critically process one’s own questions.

Content

Landscape architecture is an interdisciplinary field. This means that ideas, concepts and approaches from many disciplines are relevant for understanding and developing planning, design and management of landscapes. The course provides an orientation on approaches and scientific traditions that are important for the subject. Special emphasis is placed on working with some selected theories and methods in social sciences and arts and humanities.

In lectures, reading of course literature and compulsory seminars, the student examines, for example, concrete landscapes, designed outdoor environments, planning ideas, approaches to alternative management, discussions within the profession or discipline, etc. with the help of theories and methods in social sciences and arts and humanities. We ask, for example, how theories in cultural geography and aesthetics or discourse analytically inspired and ethnographic methods can contribute to understanding and analysing problems in landscape architecture.

In a final writing assignment, academic writing is practiced by the student analysing and interpreting a landscape, a landscape architecture project, a debate or the like. The student uses treated concepts and approaches as examples to understand what it means to apply theories and methods in their own work. The student is supported in this task through compulsory seminars where the student gives and takes constructive criticism of the texts and trains in processing a material based on given criticism.

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

The course is examined with approved participation in compulsory seminars and individual writing exercises.

• 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.

Responsible department

Department of Urban and Rural Development