Landscape studies I Field of study: Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities
Programme code: W1-S1SH24.2024

Module name: Landscape studies I
Module code: W1-SH-S1-SK.1
Programme code: W1-S1SH24.2024
Semester: summer semester 2024/2025
Language of instruction: Polish
Form of verification: course work
ECTS credits: 2
Purpose and description of the content of education:
The aim of the module is to familiarise students with the ways of representing, understanding and evaluating natural landscapes, as well as landscapes transformed by human and animal activities, which are most important in the environmental studies. Students will become familiar with visual materials, literary descriptions of landscape in historical terms and other written or pictorial sources. The module helps develop perceptual skills directed towards environmental and natural aspects, to understand the informational and ideological importance of the landscape as perceived from a human perspective, and to perceive its significance from an animal and plant perspective, as well as to learn about the role of landscape/environmental resilience and its protection.
List of modules that must be completed before starting this module (if necessary): not applicable
Learning outcome of the module Codes of the learning outcomes of the programme to which the learning outcome of the module is related [level of competence: scale 1-5]
knows theoretical and historical approaches to landscape, its definitions formulated from the perspective of various disciplines, as well as the complications related to the multidisciplinary nature of the concept (e.g. as a legal, aesthetic, existential, political, ethical term) [01]
 W02 [4/5]
understands the difference between the subjective, experiential and participatory nature of the landscape (the environment in which we are immersed) and its objective, contemplative and observational character (landscape, view) and between place, area, environment and landscape [02]
 W05 [4/5]
can relate an aesthetic understanding of landscape to its ecological significance [03]
 W06 [4/5] U02 [3/5]
is aware of the need to provide legal care for landscapes, managing and designing them in accordance with the ethical and ecological principles of landscape justice [04]
 K02 [4/5]
can distinguish between different types of landscapes and their different material forms and is aware of the ethical and cognitive consequences of landscape representations from visual, ideological (political) and existential (memorial) perspectives; understands the need to appreciate the ecological aspect of landscapes [05]
 U01 [4/5] U02 [4/5]
knows international provisions/documents (e.g. European Landscape Convention, UNESCO declarations) relating to various regulations on the use, shaping and protection of landscapes by the state [06]
 W13 [4/5]
Form of teaching Number of hours Methods of conducting classes Assessment of the learning outcomes Learning outcomes
practical classes [C] 30 Activating method – discussion / debate [b04] 
Activating methods: a case study [b07] 
Exhibition [c01] 
Screen presentation [c07]  		course work 01 02 03 04 05 06
The student's work, apart from participation in classes, includes in particular:
Name Category Description
Search for materials and review activities necessary for class participation [a01] Preparation for classes
reviewing literature, documentation, tools and materials as well as the specifics of the syllabus and the range of activities indicated in it as required for full participation in classes
Literature reading / analysis of source materials [a02] Preparation for classes
reading the literature indicated in the syllabus; reviewing, organizing, analyzing and selecting source materials to be used in class
Implementation of an individual or group assignment necessary for course/phase/examination completion [c03] Preparation for verification of learning outcomes
a set of activities aimed at performing an assigned task, to be executed out of class, as an obligatory phase/element of the verification of the learning outcomes assigned to the course
Attachments
Module description (PDF)
Information concerning module syllabuses might be changed during studies.
Syllabuses (USOSweb)
Semester Module Language of instruction
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