LAR465

043115

Cultural landscapes are a heritage resource combining natural and cultural environments, from the local to the global. It encompasses a wide-ranging conservation field that includes protection of smaller, well-defined sites with tangible historic elements, to vast landscapes with intangible associations that embody a sense of place and identities of a people.

This course provides the vocabulary and approaches to the protection of cultural landscapes. Students will be asked to consider the varied challenges and opportunities such landscapes present. These can include the management of ongoing activities that can bring economic vibrancy but also endanger the landscape's integrity. There are the challenges of interpreting sites which may have dark and sometimes difficult histories. Interpretations often include the protection of indigenous rights, as well as managing the risks to these landscapes caused by a range of threats from warfare to climate change. The ultimate purpose of cultural landscape conservation is to represent stories of significant places that are more equitable, integrated across nature and culture, and connected to community. The culminating capstone project will embody these cultural landscape stories, and how the student proposes to conserve them going forward.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

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LAR565