Course Description
Introduces concept, process, and techniques for representing historic cultural landscapes through writing, photography, hand drawing, and digital graphic media. Provides training in reading the landscape to use digital photography and Adobe Creative Suite to document maps, site plans, and forms of landscape documentation. Introduces GIS and GPS.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
All students are required to complete bio-cultural landscape
documentation readings and associated practice exercises, a mid-
term exam, and final project. Further, graduate students will
complete several exercises that build upon one another,
ultimately leading to a group final project. Graduate students
will additionally be required to lead two seminar reading
discussions and craft a paper advancing the body of knowledge
of historic landscape documentation addressing adaptive
management, resilience and/or sustainability.
Athena Title
Document Cultural Landscapes
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in HIPR 4330S or HIPR 6330S
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Knowledge
• Understand the range of documentation that may be applied to cultural landscapes (e.g., site plans, maps, measured drawings of landscape features, plant lists, Geographic Information Systems, photographs)
• Understand graphic conventions and symbiology for maps, landscape site plans, and other landscape architectural drawings
• Understand the documentation standards used for the U.S. Historic American Landscape Survey
• Understand basic principles of graphic design and layout
- Skills
• Ability to read and understand maps, site plans, and landscape construction documents
• Ability to create basic site plans and measured drawings of landscape features
• Ability to use Adobe Creative Suite applications (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) to create landscape documents
- Values
• Appreciate the role of documentation in the cultural landscape assessment, planning, and treatment process
Topical Outline
- Techniques for documenting, mapping, and representing historic cultural landscapes using hand-drawing and digital graphic media
- Introduction to types of landscape documentation and media
- Graphic conventions and symbiology for maps and landscape site plans
- Traditional methods of land surveying
- Traditional methods of creating measured drawings of landscapes
- Planting plans and plant lists
- Documentation standards for Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Mapping landscape features using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology
- Mapping landscape features using Light Detection and Ranging technology
- Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite
- Principles of graphic design and layout
