1 Learning Outcome: Explain landscapes as complex artifacts and systems involving 
natural processes and human activities

Measurement: Exam

2 Learning Outcome: Explain the systems approach to landscape management

Measurement: Exam

3 Learning Outcome: Illustrate how adaptive management can be used to learn about 
structure, function, and change in the landscape over time

Measurement: Exam and group service-learning project

4 Learning Outcome: Assess significance and integrity of cultural landscapes

Measurement: Exam and group service-learning project

5 Learning Outcome: Apply principles of sustainability and resilience thinking to a 
cultural landscape management plan

Measurement: Group service-learning project


Knowledge: Upon completion of this course, students with a passing evaluation will
have demonstrated the following:
An appreciation of landscapes as complex artifacts involving natural processes and
human activities.
An understanding of the rubric of preservation based on the concept of integrity and
its application to landscapes and the field of landscape management.
An understanding of the systems approach to landscape management and how it can be
used to address change over time.
An awareness of the importance of landscape interpretation and the issues and
problems involved in interpretation.

Skills:  Student will have the ability to:
Articulate and debate issues associated with the concepts of integrity, ecosystems
theory, interpretation, and sustainability.
Identify management issues and produce management goals and objectives in a variety
of landscape types.
Discuss various interpretations of the significance of cultural landscapes.

Values:  Students will gain an appreciation or understanding of:
The overlaps and conflicts between different values that influence the cultural
landscape and its management.
The affects of management goals on the design use and interpretation of landscapes.
The professional responsibility to design and manage landscapes in ways that are
sustainable.

Introduction:
Landscape types and their management issues: 
Landscape management vocabulary. 
Landscape prototypes and their management issues.  
Historic landscape preservation, the rubric of historic preservation and its
application to cultural landscapes.  
The concept of integrity as applied to landscapes.  
Cultural landscape reports.  
Secretary of the Interior's standards for cultural landscapes. 
Use issues.

Project: 
A discussion paper exploring management issues for one landscape type of your choice.

A systems approach to managing landscapes:  
Change in landscapes. 
Looking at cultural landscapes as ecological systems.  
Defining and determining types of change and acceptable limits of change.  
Sustainable landscape systems.  
People as part of the system.

Interpreting landscapes: 
Multiple stories and conflicting interpretations.  
Complexity and contradiction in landscape interpretation.  
Interpretation of cultural landscapes.  
How interpretation and other use issues fit into the landscape management picture.