Languages of Landscape: Global Perspectives on the Meaning of Landscape and Place

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Languages of Landscape introduces the history and theory of landscape through a global survey of concepts about the meaning of landscape and place. It is a seminar course that addresses the meaning of landscape and place through historical and theoretical contexts: philosophy, mythology, social and environmental justice, the Anthropocene, ecology, natural science, horticulture, religion, belief, art, industry, literature, colonialism, utopianism, agriculture, and gardens. The course will also survey places as they are or have been palimpsests evolving through time and human occupation. Both real and imagined ideas of landscape and place will be considered.