The list of student’s oral
presentations
List of related topics
About 15 max 20 minutes of your presentation
European and Czech traditions of
landscape
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Is there any landscape painting in pre-historic
period?
Beyond the landscape painting – landscape
photographs and/or landscape - the art (Land
– art)
Landscape as human experience and
object of science
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Cultural symbols in landscapes – part of our living
home-place
New and old use and meaning of the term
“landscape”
Cultural roots of the “landscape”
concept
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Landscape – a bridge between science and
humanities?(scientific, pre-scientific terms,
experiences etc.)
•Landscape – a bridge between social construction and
reality? (Readers P. Berger, T. Luckmann, inscape –
landscape terms , etc.)
Limits of bio-ecology
in understanding landscapes
Ecology in human science – methodology or
metaphor? Examples of application.
Your opinion?
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Limits of sociology in
understanding landscape
Interdisciplinary solution of ecological
problems
…..dreams, reality, theory or praxes?
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Landscape as culture - nature
continuum
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Sociological perspectives of this concept
Presentations concerns the possible future
development of Landscape Sociology or
Landscape Studies in general
Dynamic of landscapes
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Dynamic based on the relationships between
cultural (social) patterns, construction and
natural patterns
Landscape typology sensu Meeus
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In which L. types I am living? Description,
explanation, pictures
Great landscape changes
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What changes occurs in European as well as in
your landscapes in general?
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Driving forces of the changes in European
landscapes
Sustainable development
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Idea of Sustainable development and the
phenomenon of landscape
The List of Lessons
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European and Czech traditions of landscape
Landscape as human experience and object of science
Concept of cultural landscape
Limits of bio-ecology in understanding Czech and European
landscapes
Limits of sociology in understanding landscape
Landscape ecology and society
Towards landscape sustainability
European landscape typologies
Changes in European and Czech landscapes
Landscape and Globalization
Phenomenon of Green Man in Prague
Closing landscape studies field trip – about the origin of the
Czech Paradise
Deadline
of student’s presentaions
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See syllabus
Final essay about 2 pages +
references (min 1500 words)
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Landscape as pre-scientific term
Major Landscape Changes in Europe and US
About my Inscape
Landscape as the art
Limits of hard sciences to understanding
landscapes
Limits of social sciences to understanding
landscape (case of social constructivism)
Continuing..Final essay 2 pages +
references
(min 1500 words)
Main European mega types sensu Meeus and
their chasnges
 – the sociological cosequences
 - the environemntal consequences
 Sustainable landscape – dream or reality?
 Landscape sociology – free topic related to
perspectives of Landscape Sociology,
Landscape Studies and the list of lessons / see
above
Deadline
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May, see syllabus
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During the final trip in May will be brief
discussion about your topics.
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Who want to make an advantage bring the
final essay to the final trip.