GLA301 Introduction to Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability

The course aims to provide students with knowledge about different ways of approaching landscape and landscape change, global trends of landscape change, their drivers and challenges to sustainability.

Knowledge: Students gain insight into key concepts addressed in the GLA program, core drivers of landscape change and challenges to sustainability.

Skills: Students are able to critically assess different ways of approaching landscape and sustainability.

General competence: Students get an understanding of how local and global processes and conditions manifest themselves in the landscape and to which degree knowledge of transformation processes in a certain landscape can be transferred to others.

Self-assured individuals motivated to challenge themselves and pro-actively contribute to the program.

Self-motivation and self-organization to accomplish 75% self learning and self study

Critical and creative disposition

Graphic skills

Analytic competence

Openness to challenge conventional wisdom and paradigms. willingness to take risks.

Openness to interact and collaborate with peers in symbiotic, respectful, constructive ways.

Portfolio evaluation

Portfolio consisting of assignments; all assignments need to be passed to complete the course

Grading: pass/no pass

All assignments are given and have to be submitted in English only.

M-LA faculty members

GLA faculty team

GLA teaching assistants

GLA PhD candidates