MA and Diploma in Cultural Landscape Management Most of the world's landscapes have been created by the work of human beings. Heath-covered moors were once swathed in trees. The parks which surround our 'stately homes' contain political and ideological messages. We admire mountains, but they were once regarded with dread. Landscapes are deeply implicated in our perceptions of history, national and regional identity.
Cultural landscapes are deeply historic.
The first priority, for those who seek to 'manage' them, is to understand their history and our interpretive choices. In this course we deal with the accurate use of source material, but we are also concerned with the interpretation of cultural landscapes, how people of the present work with interpretations of historical and political meaning of landscape. Our cognate disciplines are anthropology, sociology, economics and politics, as well as geograpy and history, and we welcome students whose educational training has been in these areas. The way we understand and interpret the history of cultural landscapes is deeply rooted in the tradition of landscape archaeology, so naturally this course overlaps quite a lot with our postgraduate course in Landscape Archaeology. Thus management skills are an essential part of this course.