After passing the course, the student will have the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge:

•Specific knowledge about the relationship between perspectives on nature and landscape practices.

•General knowledge about landscapes in the Arctic/subarctic and landscapes ongoing transformation which follows from shifting practices.

•Knowledge of nature restoration and ecological restoration.

•Understanding of landscape architectures role in relation to landscape practices and the ambition of sustainable societal development.

Skills:

•To be able to analyse landscape with the view to identify how they are impacted and formed through different landscape practices.

•To be able to develop landscape architectural responcesto issues connected to landscape practices, at an advanced level,through design research.

•To be able to incorporate and apply own observations and experiences to qualify landscape architectural project proposals.

•To be able to incorporate and apply basic knowledge about biodiversity and ecosystems to qualify landscape architectural project proposals.

•To be able to convey landscape architectural intentions in a manner which expresses empathy and understanding for the relevant landscape.

General Competence:

•The ability to independently apply knowledge and skills and, to a significant degree, facilitate own work process.

•The ability to describe the issues with a significant degree of complexity.

•The ability to collaborate with others in the field and, to a significant degree, take responsibility for own and others learning.

•The ability, to a significant degree, to reflect critically upon landscape architecture’s societal relevance andthe potential role of the landscape architect.