Syllabus

LK0296 Meeting landscape 1, 15.0 Credits

Subjects

Education cycle

Modules

Advanced study in the main field

Grading scale

Language

Prior knowledge

Objectives

The course intends, together with the course ’Meeting landscape 2’, to provide students at the Landscape Architect programme, Alnarp basic knowledge of the landscape, landscape architecture, the role and working methods of Landscape Architects, and to function as an introduction to the program. After completing the course the students will be able to:

• Overall be able to describe the relations of gardens, parks and landscapes to different historical eras and their ideas, form and content characteristics

• Analyze and reflect on sites using basic garden and landscape history

• Identify from a using perspective the relevant basic range of wild and exotic park and garden plants according to different growing conditions, forms and phases of life; and to give an overview of the using of basic plants regarding plant groups potential in spatial design

• Basic outline and explore spaces, places and landscapes phenomena with artistic methods and to express different characters such as contemplative, epic, lyric or dramatic

• Using artistic drawing methods in text and image, which means to intuitively produce information and take it further to rational treatment

• Outline the Landscape Architect’s role at work and in society and the history of the Landscape Architect profession

Content

A persistent pedagogical foundation of the courses during the first semester’s education at a Landscape Architect program, Alnarp, is an integrated perspective on course implementation and learning, where the combination of different areas of knowledge contributes to students’ understanding of the landscape and of the complexity and context in landscape architecture.

This is achieved through teaching that takes a standpoint in the studies of a couple of main sites and their history, characteristics and expressions in which the quest for understanding of landscape phenomena largely influences the content and pedagogy of the course. This means that the focus of the course will be conducted by the main sites that are being studied. Other additional reference sites is used to relate and deepening the knowledge.

As a central part of an integrated learning, the students will practice how to analyze, process and synthesize knowledge through methods central for the Landscape Architect (eg, sketching, writing, visualizing and presenting). These repeated tasks allow for a deeper process of achieving knowledge and for training the communication skills of the students. The goal is that the course during the semester will give the students an approach to knowledge and methods that provides the students with tools to successfully attend the following courses in the program, and lay the foundation for future employment as a Landscape Architect.

The course is conducted through excursions, study trips, seminars, lectures, individual assignments, group projects and exams. Many parts of the course are experience-based, such as field trips, hikes, etc. There should be moments in the course that enable explorations of aspects that are not known in advance.

During the course a one-week study trip is carried out which highlights the diversity of landscape architecture and its time-depth. For short periods, the student is given the opportunity to immerse themselves into an optional area of landscape architecture and present it appropriately. The course prepares the students for a coming portfolio compilation and the exhibition that ends the semester.

With the main sites, reference sites, an integrated perspective on learning and synthesizing techniques, the course intends to primarily convey the knowledge and skills within three to extent equally represented knowledge areas: applied arts, garden and landscape history and plant knowledge. In the course will also the employment and work of Landscape Architects constitute an aspect, which aims to increase the understanding of the profession’s role in today’s community design and planning. Other content includes introductions to the design, planning and management theory. Seminars, presentations, excursions and study trip are compulsory.

The course gives 5 credits skill-training points.

Grading form

Formats and requirements for examination

Approved assignments and written examinations.

Approved participation in compulsory parts.

• 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 Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management