Course description
Programme highlights
-Emphasis on the exciting and inspirational regional identity of the South West and its wider links within British landscape traditions and cultures
-Lively interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research debate surrounding methodology
Opportunity to develop research as a written thesis or as creative or as professional practice
Duration
1 year full time or 2 years part time
General programme structure
The programme covers the spectrum of landscape research in the arts and cultural geography involving heritage, landscape perception, commodification and landscape values in urban, rural, coastal and marine settings. You will work with members of the Land Water Research Group in the Faculty of Arts and landscape specialists in the School of Geography to develop an understanding of contemporary research methods and practice and to apply the relevant techniques in your own work. The location of the programme, in real landscapes of world heritage significance, gives additional stimulus and opportunity to your study.
Early in the programme, you will begin a substantial independent research project, either as a written thesis or as a written work and as creative or professional practice, that responds to particular research questions concerned with real or imagined landscapes, for example through photography, fine art, sonic art, multimedia or design.
You will attend and contribute to relevant symposia and seminars across the Arts, Sciences and Social Sciences. You will also study theoretical and conceptual approaches to postgraduate research in the arts and humanities generally.
Detailed programme structure
Core modules
-Contemporary landscape research
-Research in the arts and humanities
-Thesis OR creative / professional work, plus written work
Option modules
-Landscape research and academic writing
-Processes of rural change
-Policies and governance in rural areas
