CO4004 Cultural Landscapes Syllabus:
CO4004 Cultural Landscapes Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
The objective is to build understanding for protection and management of cultural landscapes.
To look at a region from a cultural perspective and approach conservation from a cultural stand point.
Its aim is to evolve the scope, scale and meaning of heritage from buildings to entire regions.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Definition of landscape-ecology – Defining and recognizing Cultural Landscapes/Regions-location, formation, characteristic features– Definition of cultural landscapes as understood by other disciplines like US National Park Services and UNESCO.
UNIT II CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
Techniques for assessing the cultural values of a Cultural Landscapes/Region – Demarcating Cultural Landscapes through various parameters like political, physical, natural, linguistic boundaries, etc. – Describing the cultural region through its components – the tangible heritage and the intangible aspects like crafts, traditional skills and local knowledge systems of such zones
UNIT III ASSESSMENT OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Need and use of assessment of cultural landscape –Methods of mapping the Cultural Landscapes– Forests and vegetation – their cultural values – Cultural Geography and regional symbolism – meanings behind cultural landscapes – components that make them unique – Review of contemporary regional boundaries based on standard parameters – cultural boundaries that exist in people’s minds integrated with their lifestyles and culture
UNIT IV PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Analysis of Cultural Landscapes – Case study – identified in World Heritage List and in India like Braj, Bundelkhand, Kutch, Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, etc. – cultural restoration of Ganga River.
UNIT V MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Management and Conservation of Cultural Landscapes /Regions – preservation strategies – tourism potential – threats to cultural landscapes and the causes – methods to safe guard and promote these landscapes
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
CO1 Students shall acquire knowledge about cultural landscapes.
CO2 The assignments would include application of concepts towards identification, demarcation and mapping of cultural landscapes.
CO3 Students will learn to assess the cultural landscape
CO4 Assignment will be in the form of reports, drawings and presentations.
CO5 Students will learn to apply the strategies to preserve the cultural landscape
REFERENCES
1. Agnoletti,Mauro,ed.,Conservation of CulturalLandscapes,2006 304.2CON
2. Oliver, Paul, Builttomeet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture, 2006 720. 103OLIB
3. Singh Purushottam, Archaeology of the Ganga Plain: Cultural-Historical Dimensions,2010, 930.10954SIN-A
4. Singh, Rana P.B., ed. Heritage Scapes and Cultural Landscapes,2011, 304.2HER.