Students that attend lectures and labs should be able to:

• Understand and handle different definitions and approached towards landscape
• Plan and implement landscape analyses with different approaches and methods
• Plan and implement with safety field work
• Plan and write a scientific paper based on literature review and empirical data

The class deals with the multiple meanings and approaches that make up landscape studies today. A number of different approaches and disciplines are presented and discussed and practiced in the labs.

The class includes 13 lectures and 11 labs that aim to familiarize students with the different analysis methods and approaches. The lectures and the labs are:1 Introduction2 Definitions and methods (Lab 1: What is a landscape)3 Perception, behavior and interaction between landscape and people (Lab 2: Mental maps)4 Cultural reading of the landscape (Lab 3: Image analysis)5 Spatial and temporal scales of landscape change (Lab 4: Map analysis)6 Geological analysis (Lab 5: Non image data analysis)7 In the field (Lab 6: Design)8 In the field (Lab 7: Urban landscapes)9 Landscape ecology (Lab 8: Landscape ecology: scale, interactions, services)επεξεργασίαδιαγραφή10 In the field (Lab 9: Field visit)11 Landscape Typologies (part I): (Lab 10: group project preparation)12 Landscape Typologies (part II): (Lab 11: group project preparation)13 Group projects presentation

1. Terkenli T. (1996) The Cultural Landscape: Geographical Approaches, Papazis, Athens.
2. Doukellis P. (2005) The Greek landscape: studies of historical geography and landscape perception, Estia, Athens.