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

Module name: Landscape studies II
Module code: W1-SH-S1-SK.2
Programme code: W1-S1SH24.2024
Semester: winter semester 2025/2026
Language of instruction: Polish
Form of verification: exam
ECTS credits: 3
Purpose and description of the content of education:
The module is a continuation of “Landscape Studies I.” It provides a deeper and more thorough knowledge directed primarily towards the interpretation of specific types of landscape, various anti-landscape, digital and post-digital practices. The fundamental aim of the module is to familiarise students with the most characteristic types of natural landscapes, as well as landscapes transformed by human and animal activities. Students analyse selected landscapes, employing specific ways of defining, classifying and valuing them. The module helps to broaden perceptual skills directed towards environmental and natural aspects, to understand in a deeper way the informative and ideological importance of the landscape as perceived from a human perspective, to reflect on its significance from an animal and plant perspective, as well as to learn about the role of landscape 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]
has a deep and comprehensive knowledge of 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 independently and thoroughly relate an aesthetic understanding of landscape to its ecological significance [03]
 W06 [4/5]
is ready to take legal care of, manage and design landscapes in accordance with ethical and ecological principles of landscape justice [04]
 K02 [4/5]
can independently 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]
has a deep and comprehensive knowledge of 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]  		exam 01 02 03 04 05 06
The student's work, apart from participation in classes, includes in particular:
Name Category Description
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
Production/preparation of tools, materials or documentation necessary for class participation [a05] Preparation for classes
developing, preparing and assessing the usefulness of tools and materials (e.g. aids, scenarios, research tools, equipment, etc.) to be employed in class or as an aid when preparing for classes
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
Analysis of the corrective feedback provided by the academic teacher on the results of the verification of learning outcomes [d01] Consulting the results of the verification of learning outcomes
reading through the academic teacher’s comments, assessments and opinions on the implementation of the task aimed at checking the level of the achieved learning outcomes
Attachments
Module description (PDF)
Information concerning module syllabuses might be changed during studies.
Syllabuses (USOSweb)
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