UGA Bulletin

Course Description

Landscape management techniques with an emphasis on the values of environmental conservation and historic preservation.

Athena Title

Landscape Management

Semester Course Offered

Offered fall and spring

Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to explain landscapes as complex artifacts and systems involving natural processes and human activities.
Students will be able to explain the systems approach to landscape management.
Students will be able to illustrate how adaptive management can be used to learn about structure, function, and change in the landscape over time.
Students will be able to assess significance and integrity of cultural landscapes.
Students will be able to apply principles of sustainability and resilience thinking to a cultural landscape management plan.
Students will have an appreciation of landscapes as complex artifacts involving natural processes and human activities.
Students will have an understanding of the rubric of preservation based on the concept of integrity and its application to landscapes and the field of landscape management.
Students will have an understanding of the systems approach to landscape management and how it can be used to address change over time.
Students will have an awareness of the importance of landscape interpretation and the issues and problems involved in interpretation.
Students will be able to articulate and debate issues associated with the concepts of integrity, ecosystems theory, interpretation, and sustainability.
Students will be able to identify management issues and produce management goals and objectives in a variety of landscape types.
Students will be able to discuss various interpretations of the significance of cultural landscapes.
Students will have an understanding the overlaps and conflicts between different values that influence the cultural landscape and its management.
Students will have an understanding the effects of management goals on the design use and interpretation of landscapes.
Students will have an understanding the professional responsibility to design and manage landscapes in ways that are sustainable.

Topical Outline

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.

Institutional Competencies

Critical Thinking

The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.

Social Awareness & Responsibility

The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.

Syllabus

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