Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

This third year unit provides provides a substantial exploration of landscape design throughout history, building on the foundation of the broad view of design history provided in first year. Learning from the past enriches and informs future landscape design practice. History informs us about the interaction between society (including culture, economy and technology) and the environment (materials, climate, landform, ecology, etc.), and the consequences for human settlement and designed landscapes. Multiple views of history and historiography will be investigated to provide useful lessons that can be applied in the contemporary world for the betterment of humankind and the environment.

Aims

The aim of this unit is to review landscape design and criticism across history and across the world. The context of this review involves an introduction to the critical examination of history (historiography) and the variety of histories (including socio-economic, environmental, art, architecture, and landscape).

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:

1. demonstrate at an advanced level, the ability to effectively communicate through written, graphic and oral means (communication)
   
2. demonstrate at an intermediate level, your knowledge of design history, including the linkages among ideas, social values and customs, art, architecture, materials and technology, the built world and the natural world, and their changing impacts on the landscape (knowledge base)
   
3. demonstrate at an intermediate level, effective critical thinking and analytical processes to investigate past and present landscape design outcomes (critical investigation)
   
4. demonstrate at an intermediate level, creative thinking in the interpretation of this knowledge and investigation (creative outcomes)
   
5. demonstrate where and when appropriate, ethical conduct, collaboration and independent self-management and accountability (work practices).

Content

This unit consists of a comprehensive lecture program (illustrated with photographic images, videos or other means) and student projects to provide further reflection on this large body of knowledge, understanding and different critical interpretations of landscape design history. Workshops and tutorials encourage you to participation and discuss matters raised in lectures. Lectures will cover:

• the history of human occupation and use of the land, particularly the design and development of human settlements and the evolution of the professions involved in these activities in a global overview;
  
• the historical development of significant designed landscapes throughout the world, from earliest times to the present day;
  
• key designers, major design movements, and the most influential regions;
  
• local Queensland and Australian designed landscapes and sub/tropical design approaches;
  
• issues such as design form and content, influencing factors, and implications of these landscape creations;
  
• history, theory and criticism, understanding design criticism, thinking critically and writing critically.

You will be asked to acknowledge the past and present traditional owners of the land on which projects are undertaken and to seek to contribute to the spirit of reconciliation wherever practicable in your work.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching Mode: 3 hours total per week in Seminar format

Learning Approaches:
Learning approaches will cover the following:
Problem based learning
Self-learning
Individual learning
Reflection

Assessment

Assessment will be based on defined components of the projects. Participation in lectures and tutorials will prepare you for your various assessment tasks.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.Formative feedback will be given in tutorial presentations of work in progress. Summative assessment will be based on the final Exam and on each of the defined components of the projects that will include detailed written feedback through relevant standards based criterion referenced evaluation sheets.

Assessment name: History Journal
Description: Graphical and written collation of landscape design ideas from history, derived from allocated readings, tutorial activities and personal investigations.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Ongoing & end of sem

Assessment name: Presentation (Oral or Group)
Description: Oral and AV presentation of research on selected landscape history topic.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3 and 5
Weight: 25%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: Week 4

Assessment name: Essay
Description: A critical examination of a contemporary project.
Relates to objectives: 1, 2, 3 and 5
Weight: 35%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 9

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

There are no prescribed texts for this unit:.

The following texts are recommended:

Boults, Elizabeth and Sullivan, Chip (2010). Illustrated History of Landscape Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.

Jellicoe, Geoffrey & Jellicoe, Susan (1987). The Landscape of Man. London: Thames and Hudson.

Mosser, Monique and Teyssot, Georges (1991). The History of Garden Design: The western tradition form the Renaissance to the Present Day. London: Thames and Hudson.

Nicolin, Pieruigi, and Repishti, Francesco (2003). Dictionary of Today's Landscape Designers. Milan: Skira.

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow (2001). Landscape Design: A cultural and architecural History, New York: Harry H. Abrams.


Other resource materials will be made available as appropriate through the unit Blackboard site.

Risk assessment statement

In this unit you will undertake lectures and tutorials in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit. The unit will require you to partake in field trips, of a self-guided nature. A risk assessment for these trips has identified only low impact risks. You will be provided with relevant safely guidelines prior to any field trip. You will be required to obey all safety guidelines and directions while attending field trips.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 18-Feb-2013