LARC40420 Landscape Research 1

Academic Year 2023/2024

The module supports the ongoing design-research studio; it aims to help students to better inform their own work and reflect on and express their findings. The class introduces sources, materials and some methods of research commonly used in the broad area of landscape architecture, and teaches students how to improve academic writing.

Taught through about 6 seminars the class as a whole engages with a topic of contemporary debate and explores it through reading, thinking and discussion. Students are asked to investigate an issue of importance to contemporary society, review current literature and relate the chosen topic to a specific site. Students write a 2000 word paper that summarizes the causes and consequences of a particular issue and makes proposals to bring about change (a thesis).

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Students improve research, documentation and writing skills, learning to apply greater critical thinking in the appraisal of a current situation.

On completion of this module students should have
- Prepared a review of current literature on a chosen topic
- Improved familiarity of research methods, and applied them or be ready to apply them in pursuit of knowledge about a topic
- Demonstrated critical thinking in the appraisal of an issue of contemporary importance in landscape architecture
- Demonstrated good academic writing skills in the communication of their research



Indicative Module Content:

Landscape related issues of contemporary importance to society

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

18
Conversation Class

6
Autonomous Student Learning

96
Total

120
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures; active task-based self-directed learning; moderated peer group debate; critical writing; enquiry & problem-based learning; case-based learning; student presentations, etc. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: Final illustrated report and appendices Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

75
Journal: Reflection on the research-design process Unspecified n/a Graded No

25

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Individual feedback follows submissions with peer review and self assessment activities part of a formative assessment strategy.

Name Role
Mr Desmond Byrne Tutor
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 
Autumn
      
Seminar Offering 1 Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 Mon 15:00 - 16:50