Landscape Transformations: Abandonment and Resilience in Peripheral Rural Areas in Southern Europe
Description
This short credited course aims to provide trainees with skills that allow them to:
- Recognize fundamental tasks in the interpretation and analysis of transforming rural landscapes;
- Know the historical and geographical context of the formation of the landscape in southern Europe;
- Critically apply strategies to mitigate impacts on cultural landscapes;
- Know how to identify uses, customs, practices and traditions that influence landscape dynamics;
- Know local, national and international institutions that work in the landscape area, as well as the scope and mode of their action;
- Critically evaluate the performance of different agents related to the construction of the landscape.
Number of hours
Autonomous work:78 Hours;
Classes:
- 14 hours – Seminars;
- 24 hours – Synchronous Sessions;
- 24 hours – Supervised Field Work.
Target group
Undergraduate students enrolled in the 2nd or 3rd years of the 1st cycle;
Students from other grades, as long as they are in the area of Social Sciences or similar areas.
Number of participants
MIN – 8; MAX – 30.
Prerequisites
The course is aimed at:
- 1st cycle students, in the areas of Geography and Planning, Landscape Studies, Architecture, or Social Sciences;
- 2nd cycle students can also take part of the course, in the areas of Geography and Planning, Landscape Studies, Architecture, or other Social Sciences.
Type of funding / fee
Free of charge