Entry requirements

Earth Science - Planet Earth, 30 credits, or the equivalent.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• describe different concepts in landscape development and various historical hypotheses raised about landscape development
• describe the individual endogenous and exogenous processes that are active in the development of the landscape
• describe the interaction between processes and landscape development in the global climate and environmental change
• explain the development of landscapes at different time scales with focus on long time scales
• interpret the physical landscape to derive the development of landscape.

Content

The course covers various topics including concepts and historical development of the subject, glacial and periglacial processes, mass transport and weathering, fluvial and aeolian processes that transform the landscape; tectonic processes affecting the landscape construction; the interaction between endogenous and exogenous processes across time and space and long-term landscape evolution.

Instruction

The course is given in the form of lectures, exercises, seminars and individual project work. Attendance in seminars and computer exercises is obligatory.

Assessment

The course is assessed with a written examination (5 credits) and exercises (3 credits) and seminars (2 credits).

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.