Module Catalogue

APL8008 : Landscape Histories

  • Offered for Year: 2024/25
  • Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
  • Module Leader(s): Dr Charlotte Veal
  • Owning School: Architecture, Planning & Landscape
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 2 Credit Value: 10
ECTS Credits: 5.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

To introduce students to the history of landscape (designed, planned, managed), relating developments in landscape to the social and economic conditions which prevailed during various periods and in various locations, and also to environmental/ecological, cultural and scientific developments. Students are also encouraged to explore the linkages between landscape architecture, planning, and management and related disciplines, e.g. art, architecture, geography, botany/ecology and town planning at these various stages.

Outline Of Syllabus

The module is based around a course of lectures, that are organised around core themes to cover the most significant ecological, economic, social, cultural and political concerns shaping landscape. Topics typically include:
- Medicine (botany, health, wellbeing)
- Improvement (science, engineering, aesthetic)
- Water (management, design, spirituality)
- Gender (EDI)
- Race (EDI)
- Trade and transnational flows (seeds, plants, landscapes)
- Park (green space management, parks)
- Conservation (national parks, protected habitats)
- Character areas
- Participatory (co-production, conflict resolution, landscape futures)

These are supported by student-led seminars that see students working in interdisciplinary teams, allowing them to research, synthesise, and present work in clear and concise manner.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture91:009:00N/A
Guided Independent StudyDirected research and reading175:0075:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching81:008:00Student-led group seminars
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesFieldwork18:008:00N/A
Total100:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

A course delivered through lectures (PIP) is the most suitable way to introduce students to a range of core themes and theoretical perspectives, drawn from diverse historical and geographical contexts. The lecture material will be the means to support and encourage students in their independent reading while seminars will facilitate critical thinking, data/policy analysis, interdisciplinary working, and presentation skills.

A guided fieldtrip will support students to apply this thinking to real world contexts (parks and green space management, heritage, enhancement, conservation) and develop their pactical skills.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Essay2M1002000 words.
Formative Assessments

Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.

Description Semester When Set Comment
Oral Presentation2AEach week, in small groups, students will summarise and lead group discussion on a pre-selected academic reading.
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The written essay is intended to assess understanding of the material presented in the module and to provide an opportunity to respond critically to this material drawing upon examples from various geographical contexts and scales (micro-to-macro).

The oral presentation will build students interdisciplinary, data analysis and presentation skills. This will include critical-reflexive piece from the fieldwork.

Reading Lists

Timetable