Module Code - Title:
GY5103
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READING THE LANDSCAPE: SOURCES AND METHODS IN HIST
Year Last Offered:
2024/5
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To enhance the studentÆs understanding of landscape as both a historical record and a result of historical process.
Syllabus:
The application of advanced research in historical geography to the study of local, regional and national developments; the significance of place names; the human environment; the interpretation of cultural markers; signs symbols and landscape as clue to culture; the social and cultural significance of historical geography; writing a landscape into existence.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
* Recognise how the landscape can be a historical record.
* Relate the recognition of landscape as a historical record to landscape as the result of historical process.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
* demonstrate an appreciation of the landscape as the richest and most varied record of cultural change
* embrace the startling richness of neighbourhoods, localities and regions within Ireland.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
* Design and construct maps that are of adequate cartographic quality and relevance to the dissertation topic
* Manipulate the requisite computer programmes.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Seminar: one three hour session per week to comprise lecture, primary source discussion, and in-class practical exercises. Seminars form a single part of the process of historical understanding alongside reading and research. The practical exercises will involve æhands-onÆ map-making using relevant manual techniques and computer packages. Seminars are designed to introduce a student to a number of themes and events but will never provide the all of the information necessary for achieving the objectives of the module. Seminars will facilitate and provide a context for personal reading and research that students must undertake in order to fully comprehend the experience of warfare in the past.
the learner
* faced challenging goals and accomplished them
* learned from the experience and taught others
* the content of the learning experience was personally relevant, interesting, useful, and meaningful to the learner
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
N/A
Prime Texts:
Graham B.J. and Proudfoot L.J (1993)
An Historical geography of Ireland
, London: Academic Press
O¿Connor P.J. (1992)
Living in a Coded Land
, Oireacht na Mumhan
Other Relevant Texts:
William J Smyth (2008)
Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c. 1530-1750-
, Cork University Press
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
Helene.Bradley@mic.ul.ie