Entry requirements

Dynamic Geosystems, 10 credits, or Climate Variations, 5 credits. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

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

• describe the exogenous and endogenous processes in the landscape, their imprtance in landform development, and distinguish the mechanisms that control these processes
• analyse how variations in climate, tectonics and environment affect the development of landforms
• assess how different scales of time and space affect geomorphological processes
• explain and apply geomorphological methods used in research today

Content

The course reviews topics within geomorphology and earth surface processes such as key concepts of geomorphology, landform development at different spatial and time scales, endogenic and exogenic processes, their controlling mechanisms, and their interaction to form the landscape, geomorpholgical research methods, denudation and long-term landscape evolution. It considers different geomorphic contexts such as fluvial, coastal, aeolian and periglacial and the interaction between these and climate. The course involves field and laboratory methods relevant to geomorphology.

Instruction

Teaching is in the form of lectures, seminars, written reports and papers, exercises and field trips.

Assessment

The course is graded using a written examination (5 credits), participation in excursions, exercises and seminars (2 credits), and a written report (3 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.

Transitional provisions

There are travel and living costs associated with the excursion that need to be covered by the student.