Course Schedule Seminar Cultural Landscapes 2010

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Part A: Introduction

April 13, 2010 / 6 pm CET / Virtual Team Room

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Activities for new online students only:

• Basic introduction to the technical requirements and the ViTeRo program
• Questions + Answers

April 20, 2010 / 6 pm CET / Virtual Team Room

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Mutual activities:

• Official introduction: Team and Participants present themselves
• Presentation of seminar contents + schedule
• Introductory lecture by Prof. Diedrich Bruns: Cultural Landscapes: European Capitals of Culture 2010 / Metropolitan Regions “Ruhr” and “Istanbul”
• Discussion
• Questions + Answers

Part B: Cultural Landscapes: Education, research methods and approaches

April 27, 2010 / 6 pm CET / Virtual Team Room

Mutual activities:

• Introduction to Minute exercise: Develop a Concept Map!
• Questions + Answers
• Lecture by Speaker: Title
• Simultation + Discussion

Working Phase I: Develop a Concept Map

Time frame: April 27 - May 11, 2010

Student activities:

• Study texts
• Transform text content into a concept map
• You may use open source tools such as Freemind, VUE or Cmap
• Upload your concept map to the seminar WIKI with explanatory text

Part C: Responses of cultural landscapes to changing natural processes

May 11, 2010 /6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

Mutual activities:

• Introduction to Case study exercise: Develop a Process Biography!
• Introduction to the student assignment Case study report - Online documentation and presentation
• Questions + Answers
• Lecture by Speaker: Title
• Presentation + Discussion of Concept Map

May 18, 2010 / 6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

Mutual activities:

• Lecture by Speaker: Title
• Presentation + discussion of concept map

Working Phase II: Develop a Process Biography

Time frame: May 11 - June 08, 2010

Student activities:

• Apply process analysis to a familiar project
• Prepare 1-2 slides with your results for sessions in June 2010

Part D: Landscapes as a reflection of changing cultural processes

May 25, 2010 / 6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

Mutual activities:

• Lecture by Speaker: Title
• Discussion
• Presentation + discussion of concept map

June 01, 2010 / 6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

Mutual activities:

• Lecture by Speaker: Title
• Presentation + discussion of concept map

Part E: Technology as a driver of cultural landscape change

June 08, 2010 / 6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

Mutual activities:

• Lecture by Speaker: Title
• Presentation + discussion of concept map
• Introduction to Case study exercise: Develop a Process Analysis!

Working Phase III: Develop a Process Analysis

Time frame: June 08 - June 29, 2010

Student activities:

• Students prepare own analysis (related to thematic groups)
• Preparation of presentations
• Team feedback available

Part F: Analysis of Relevant Case Studies: Applying methods to self-chosen case studis

June 15, 2010 / 6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

• Presentation of Case study reports
• Discussion

June 22, 2010 / 6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

• Presentation of first Case study reports
• Discussion

June 29, 2010 / 6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

• Presentation of first Case study reports
• Discussion

Part G: Reflection

July 06, 2010 / 6 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room

• Reflection of content, process and techniques
• Invitation to seminar evaluation (online)
• Preview of future seminar topics