Landscape Studies and Cultural Geography
Course code
HIK6439.HT
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Maastiku-uuringud ja kultuurigeograafia
Course title in English
Landscape Studies and Cultural Geography
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The course introduces the fields of landscape studies and cultural geography in human geography discipline, giving an overview about their development, theoretical concepts, interdisciplinarity, research areas and contemporary study themes in these fields.
Brief description of the course
The aim of the course is to offer from the human geography perspective research tools to examine living environment by integrating nature and culture. The course gives an overview of the fields of landscape studies and cultural geography with integrating their developments to the progress in cultural and social theories. Research methodologies, such as regional geography, “new cultural geography”, non-representational theory or (new)materiality are introduced alongside the concepts, such as region, place, landscape, sense of place, representation, place marketing, affect, materiality, everyday etc. Lectures concerning landscape studies introduce research methodologies integrating ecology, temporality and people; and cover themes connected to mental and temporal landscapes and landscape values. Lectures are supported by thematic seminars that discuss scientific articles. In the end of the course students are asked to write practical homework that should reflect some key terms in the field of landscape studies and/or cultural geography; and relate some of the introduced methodologies for analysing questions interesting for the student.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- orients in the central concepts in the field of landscape studies and cultural geography;
- is able to relate developments in human geography with general development trends in social and cultural theories;
- knows different research directions in cultural geography;
- has an overview about the field of landscape studies and its research methodologies;
- develops skills in scientific expression.
- orients in the central concepts in the field of landscape studies and cultural geography;
- is able to relate developments in human geography with general development trends in social and cultural theories;
- knows different research directions in cultural geography;
- has an overview about the field of landscape studies and its research methodologies;
- develops skills in scientific expression.
Teacher
Hannes Palang
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