ENS222 Settlements - Cultural Landscape - Wilderness

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Radim Lokoč (lecturer)
Ing. arch. Magdalena Maceková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Dana Zajoncová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ivona Tolarová
Timetable
Wed 10:00–11:40 U32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 49 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/49, only registered: 0/49
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objective of the course is to characterise and analyse various aspects of cultural landscape. At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain current issues of the landscape use from the viewpoint of its historical development, cultural circumstances, and perspectives of landuse planning laws. Case studies are used to illustrate landscape as a place where various interest interfere.
Student are led to interpret the knowledge gained during the seminar, where they present the essay. In this text students are expected to not only to work with the information, but also to make reasoned deductions about the concrete issue of land-use.
An excursion is a part of this course.
Syllabus
  • Landscape – its perception and evaluation. Landscape value, function, perception.
  • Relationship between landscape and agriculture. Industrial revolution and agriculture, collective farms.
  • Changes of rural space in the second half of 20. century, and in the presence, social, economic and environmental aspects.
  • Countryside and agriculture in the 21st century. Farming as landscape stewardship, multifunctional agriculture.
  • The Czech ancient forest – current debate on the forest evolution.
  • The classics of the American wilderness: Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Gary Snyder.
  • “Wilderness area”, “wildness”.
  • Are we in contact with wilderness/wildness? – outdoor, woodcraft, scouting, tramping.
  • Development of settlements – traditional village, urbanization, suburbanization.
  • Current problems of cities, suburbanization and its problems, the loss of „genius loci“, „new urbanism“.
  • Land-use planning, participation of inhabitants.
  • Transport in the cities – car transport, alternatives.
  • Excursion.
Literature
  • SNYDER, Gary. Hory a řeky bez konce. Translated by Luboš Snížek, Illustrated by Květa Krhánková. Vydání první. Praha: Maťa, 2007, 195 stran. ISBN 9788072871148. info
  • THOREAU, Henry David. Walden, aneb, Život v lesích. Vyd. 6., V tomto překladu 2. Litomyšl: Paseka, 2006, 306 s. ISBN 8071856711. info
  • STIBRAL, Karel. Proč je příroda krásná? Estetické vnímání přírody v novověku (Why is Nature Beautiful? The Aesthetic Perception of Nature in the Modern Era). Praha: Dokořán, 2005, 202 pp. Bod. ISBN 80-7363-008-7. info
  • CÍLEK, Václav. Krajiny vnitřní a vnější : texty o paměti krajiny, smysluplném bobrovi, areálu jablkového štrůdlu a také o tom, proč lezeme na rozhlednu. Praha: Dokořán, 2002, 231 s. ISBN 8086569292. info
  • PETRÁŇ, Josef and Lydia PETRÁŇOVÁ. Rolník v evropské tradiční kultuře. 1. vyd. Praha: SET OUT, 2000, 215 s. ISBN 80-86277-08-9. info
  • LEOPOLD, Aldo. Obrázky z chatrče a rozmanité poznámky. Edited by Robert Finch, Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz. Vyd. 1. Tulčík: Abies, 1999, 269 s. ISBN 80-88699-13-4. info
  • SNYDER, Gary. A place in space :ethics, aesthetics and watersheds. Washington: Counterpoint, 1995, vi, 263 s. ISBN 1-887178-02-3. info
  • THOREAU, Henry David. A yearning toward wildness. Edited by Tim Homan. Atlanta: Peachtree, 1991, x, 166 s. ISBN 1-56145-035-9. info
Assessment methods
Lectures, student class presentation, essay, writen final examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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