ENS280 Inscribing Landscapes

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
dr. Randall Roorda (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Bernatíková
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
SOUHLAS
This course is part of a three-week long (from May 16, 2015 until June 8, 2015) outgoing program for American students from the University of Kentucky, USA and for Czech students from Masaryk University called Sustainability Challenges in Central Europe: Theory and Environmental Case Studies in the Czech Republic. It is possible to participate on the entire three-week program (for more information visit website of the program or the contact person) and get a unique opportunity to study with American students, to participate on interesting field trips and interactive lectures. It is also possible to enrol just for this course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
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Syllabus
  • This is a writing-intensive course in environmental experience and expression, with environment referring to natural features interwoven with signs of human presence, including words themselves. Landscapes—visible, traversable aspects of places—are inscribed in themselves (in landforms, vegetation, seasons, buildings and roads), inscribed by others whose texts and images direct what we see, and inscribed by us in actions we take and marks we make in a place. Movement between these sorts of inscription will comprise the subject and suggest activities in this course.
Teaching methods
These complementary processes will be enhanced by close, sometimes structured interaction between Czech and U.S. students, in class sessions, field experiences and field trips, and shared projects alike.
Assessment methods
Evaluation of my course will be based on assignments of three sorts:
-- a program notebook and journal, including entries both assigned (including reading responses) and elective (including on-site note-taking, reflection and response), checked at intervals and collected for grading toward the end of the program (then returned for use in class projects);
-- a collaborative presentation on some aspect of the program curriculum associated with some site visited during its duration;
-- a final project (essay, article, photo essay, video with commentary, digital assemblage or such) composed first in a draft version submitted for peer review (in virtual workshop sessions conducted via internet), then in a final version for grading and (potentially) incorporation in a program website. Projects will be developed and completed in the weeks following the program proper. (Submission of drafts and feedback given to other students in virtual workshops will be factored into project grades.)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: mimo semestr.
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