"It is hard to see, but it is here." Landscape traces of the contemporary past

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Course ID:	3700-KON398-AL
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.9 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0229) Humanities (except languages), not elsewhere classified The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	"It is hard to see, but it is here." Landscape traces of the contemporary past
Name in Polish:	"It is hard to see, but it is here." Landscape traces of the contemporary past
Organizational unit:	Faculty of "Artes Liberales"
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	elective courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Wymagana znajomość języka angielskiego na poziomie umożliwiającym lekturę tekstów akademickich oraz udział w dyskusji na zajęciach (min. B2).
Short description:	Covered by pavements, carved in stones, or concealed by a thick forest, some places bare traces of memory, trauma and hidden meanings of the contemporary past. Those places, sometimes set up intentionally and sometimes emerged out of natural taphonomic processes, can be used (and misused) in the cultural and political discourse on modern-day issues concerning memory of genocides, creation of public space, environmental protection, creation of natural environments in urban spaces and many others. Deriving from the “spatial turn” in humanities and social sciences, the goal of the class is to discuss the variety of presence of the past in contemporary landscapes, using interdisciplinary approach based on i.a. archaeology, memory studies, landscape studies, and ecosemiotics. Theoretical and methodological framework will be then transferred onto case-studies of places in urban, suburban and natural environments, where the contemporary past has imprinted its traces.

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