GG2801 Scotland's Evolving Landscape
Academic year
2024 to 2025 Summer after graduation
Curricular information may be subject to change
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Key module information
SCOTCAT credits
12
SCQF level
SCQF level 8
Module coordinator
Dr C R Warren
Module Staff
Professor William Austin, Dr Charles Warren, Dr David McCollum, Dr Tom Cowton and Dr Vanessa Schofield
Module description
A bespoke, 4 week-long, 12 credit (120 study hours) summer programme for international study-abroad students from the College of William & Mary (USA). The course will be delivered by faculty from the School of Geography & Sustainable Development and addresses themes of broad interest relating to the interdisciplinary study of Scotland’s Evolving Landscape. Course themes will include “physical landscapes”, “cultural landscapes”, “climate change”, “population change”, and “landscape management”. Students will enjoy an extensive programme of field trips to gain first-hand experience of Scotland’s breath-taking landscapes and a deeper understanding of the forces that have shaped and continue to shape the land and its people. Students who complete this course will be able to analyse and synthesize the processes (physical, social and economic) that shape landscapes over time and will be able to critically “read” (evaluate) a landscape through the lens of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Assessment pattern
100% Coursework
Re-assessment
100% Coursework
Intended learning outcomes
- Understanding the basic principles of landscape evolution.
- Able to define landscape-shaping forces and processes in Scotland.
- Able to chart climate history and climate-shaping processes, notably glacial landscapes.
- Able to chart the course of cultural landscape evolution in the Scottish context and offer a critical and reflexive analysis.
- Able to write up a field report in a suitable format and a reflective essay.