| Responsible Department | Forest & Landscape | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | MSc | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination Some Aid allowed Description of Examination: The oral exam includes both examination of the delivered project report and associated issues/problems. The exam is oral and individual. Weight: The oral exam counts 100 pct 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | Deliverance of project report and participation in common oral presentation of the report. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course starts with a three day excursion in Denmark. All other time is dedicated to coorporative project work, except from few theme specific (guest) lectures | ||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Blok 4 Week Structure: A Blok 4 Week Structure: C | ||||||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | Danish | ||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Landscape ecology, Mind and Nature, Management legislation, Countryside Management - policy, theory and method | ||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | Ingen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course begins with a three day excursion to a municipality in Denmark. Here the students will be inspired and confronted with present planning problems and future challenges, guided by teachers and local public countryside managers from the municipality. The presented planning issues are the foundations of the problem-based project report, where the students must formulate specific problems to be solved during seven weeks of intense group work. Thus, the countryside management of the visited municipality will be the point of departure for all course reports. After the excursion most other time is dedicated to coorporative project work. Every group will recieve supervision approxemately 3-4 times during the project period. A few theme specific (guest) lectures will be arranged as additional intellectual inspiration. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course starts with a three-day excursion to a relevant municipality in Denmark. During the excursion potential project issues/topics will be discussed, hereby forming a number of project groups, who will work out a project report for deliverance 7 weeks later. Groups of 3-5 students are recommended, groups above 6 student are not accepted. All project report must include a descriptive-analytical part, and a proposal for improved policy, planning or design. Three or four guest lectures will be arranged during the course to meet specific subjects or questions of the projects | |||||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||||
| Aims: The overall aims are to gain experiences in problembased sustainable landscape planning and management with a multi-functional approach. During a seven week case study the student is trained in formulation of problems, application of multi-methodology, landscape analysis, syntesis and creating proposals for the future. Knowledge: * Understand the countryside management in a multi-functional perspective and the fundamental theories, methods and policies of the subject matter, ie. relevant for the case/project * Understand the landscape structures, functions and change in relation to the private countryside management * Understand the interaction between public and private countryside management Skills: * Gain experiences of policy analysis in landscape planning and management * Diagnose landscape problems and creating planning/management solutions * Present/communicate landscape problems and comprehensive models of solutions Competences: * Multi-disciplinary coorporation in problem and project based countryside/landscape management | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Some literature have allready been introduced in the former course "Countryside Management - policy, theory and method". However, each project group will usually work on a case where additional literature must be searched for. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||
| Morten Stenak, mste@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 35331844 Lone Søderkvist Kristensen, lokr@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 353-31831 | |||||||||||||||||||
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