Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
LANDSCAPE BIOGRAPHY 801600805690 3 + 0 3.0 10.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
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Goals The interpretation of the different "landscape layers" that form the present landscape, but in the past, through ecological, socio-cultural, political and economic driving forces, and thus the spatially expression of the connection between landscape and life story.
Course Content The terms of landscape and biography; History and transformation of landscape; Biography metaphor; Human as an actor and an important landscape-sahaping factor; Mental landscape; Sensory landscape; Various layers of landscape; Reading of Landscape; Critics on the biography concept; The relationship between landscape planning and landscape biography; Interpretation of the connectivity between transformations in the landscape and the history of ideas and behaviour patterns; Expression of this connectivity with different tools; Mapping of the connectivityfor landscape planning.
Learning Outcomes 1) Gaining of ability to discuss about all process which have created today's landscape such as ecologic, socio-economic, politic processes
2) Gaining of ability to discuss about the various landscape layers which have been resulted from these processes.
3) Gaining of ability to interpret of the connection between intellectual history and behavioral patterns of the l human communities and the landscape transformation .

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Introduction Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Study on the terms of Landscape and Biograhy Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Study on the terms of Landscape and Biography Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Landscape history, landscape transformation; multi-layer structure of landscape; evaluation of these layers through ecolgical, socio-cultural; politic, economic driversi Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Examining of the differences between Landscape Biography term and Landscape History/Landscape Archeology Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week The relationship betwen Landscape Biography and Landscape Planning Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Article reading Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Mid-term examination Question Answer

 Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice, Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice)
9. Week The interpretation of the link between intellectual history and behavioral patterns of the societies and landscape transforamtion Lecture; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week The expression of these links with different tools Lecture; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Mapping of these connections for landcape planning process Lecture; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Student presentations Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Student presentations Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week General evaluation and discussion of the final paper Question Answer; Discussion; Case Study

Case Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Antrop, M. 2005. Why Landscape of The Past Are Important fort he Future. Landscape and Urban Planning, 70, pp. 21-34.
Beek, R. Van, Bloemers, T., Keunen, L., Londen, H.Van, Kolen, J., 2008, The Netherlands, In G. Fairclough, P. Grau Moller(eds), Landscape as Heritage. The Management and Protection of Landscape in Europe, summary by the COST A 27 Project LANDMARKS, Bern.
Council of Europe, 2000, Euopean Landscape Convention, Florence, 20 October 2000, Strasbourg. Willems, J.H.W., 2010, Introduction to ‘Protecting and Developing the Dutch Archaelogical-Historical Landscape’ In T. Bloemers, H. Kars, A. Van Der Valk, M. Wijnen (Eds)
Palang, H., Spek, T. ve Stenseke, M. 2011. Digging in the past: New conceptual models in landscape history and their relevance in peri-urban landscapes. Landscape and Urban Planning, 100, 344-346.
Royman, N. Gerritsen, F. Heijden,C. Bosma, K. ve Kolen, J. 2009. Landscape Biography as Resaerch Strategy: The Case of the South Netherlands Project. Landscape Research, Vol. 34, No. 3. Pp. 337-359.
Roymans, N., Gerritsen, F., Heijden, C. V., Bosma, K. ve Kolen, J. 2009. Landscape Biography as Research Strategy: The Case of the South Netherlands Project, Landscape Research, 34 (3), 337–359.
Zarina, A. 2010. Path Dependency And Landscape Biographıes In Latgale, Latvia: A Comparative Analysis. European. Countryside,3, 151-168.

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 3
Homework 5 15
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 3 15
Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time) 1 15
1 15
3 15
2 15
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