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bali field school 2010
Landscape Field Schools offers summer ISLE (International Service
Learning Exchange) programs to students interested in cultural
landscapes, community development, participatory planning and
sustainable community heritage. Participants are introduced to
concepts and methods during the first half of the summer and spend
the second half of the summer contributing to real-world projects at
international project sites. Our current focus is on cultural
landscapes of the SE Asia/Australasia region. Landscape Field
School programs have included project locations or excursion
destinations such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur,
Hong Kong, South Viet Nam, Jakarta, Central and Western Java, the
island of Bali, and the urban centres and outback communities of
Australia
Summer A: May 10 - June 18
Sustainable Community Landscape Heritage
Concepts, Methods and Contextualization (variable credit)
Online course (no requirement to be in Gainesville for this coursework)
This course is offered for variable credits at both the undergraduate
and graduate levels.
At both levels, students are engaged in readings that cover the
following topics:
Cultural and Ethnographic Landscapes
Field Studies in Anthropology
Geography of Indonesia
History of Bali and the dynasties of East Java
Heritage Planning and the Anthropology of Tourism
Community Development
Emerging Technologies in Landscape Field Research
Students enrolling in the graduate level course are expected to
complete reflection essays for each of the assigned readings.
Students enrolled at the undergraduate level produce a final
comprehensive paper at the end of the course. All students are
expected to contribute to robust, online discussions in response to
each article.
This course is specific to the Bali Field School program and dually
serves as our pre-departure orientations covering topics such as
travel logistics, expectations and program structure.
Summer B: June 28 - July 28
Our program in Bali includes two courses offered at the graduate
level only (undergraduates receive graduate credit at no additional cost)
This summer, participants have the option (although not required) of
joining us in Japan for an in-bound excursion to visit the shrines and
temple gardens of Kyoto. Participants should arrange for arrival to
Osaka on June 27th or earlier and a departure for Denpasa, Bali on
June 30th.
Participants choosing not to join us in Japan should arrange to
arrive to Bali on July 1st or 2nd.
Landscape Field Research (3 credits)
The Balinese practice a religion called Agama Tirtha, the Science of
Holy Water. This system of beliefs underlies a delicate ecological
balance that has been achieved through 2000 years of refinement.
Today, this balance is under threat. Increasing pressures are
resulting in growing impacts on the natural systems that the Balinese
rely upon for their very survival.
This year, program participants will visit more than a dozen key
water landscape sites on a week-long, cross-island excursion.
Accompanied by evolutionary ecologists, agricultural scientists,
heritage specialists, community planners and landscape architects,
the group will gain insights into the Balinese belief system that
underlies that this cooperative agricultural society while studying the
mounting pressures that threaten Bali's productive and ecological
balance.
Landscape Field School Practicum (3 credits)
After returning to the field school, participants will work with local
community members to develop place-specific and
culturally-sensitive, interpretive design alternatives for spaces
associated with a local urban streamcourse in the foothill village of
Ubud. Design visions will be presented and refined through a series
of community-based workshops that will include the development of
growth management and visioning plans to sustain vital community
heritage landscapes.
Landscape Field Schools offers summer ISLE (International Service
Learning Exchange) programs to students interested in cultural
landscapes, community development, participatory planning and
sustainable community heritage. Participants are introduced to
concepts and methods during the first half of the summer and spend
the second half of the summer contributing to real-world projects at
international project sites. Our current focus is on cultural
landscapes of the SE Asia/Australasia region. Landscape Field
School programs have included project locations or excursion
destinations such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur,
Hong Kong, South Viet Nam, Jakarta, Central and Western Java, the
island of Bali, and the urban centres and outback communities of
Australia
Summer A: May 10 - June 18
Sustainable Community Landscape Heritage
Concepts, Methods and Contextualization (variable credit)
Online course (no requirement to be in Gainesville for this coursework)
This course is offered for variable credits at both the undergraduate
and graduate levels.
At both levels, students are engaged in readings that cover the
following topics:
Cultural and Ethnographic Landscapes
Field Studies in Anthropology
Geography of Indonesia
History of Bali and the dynasties of East Java
Heritage Planning and the Anthropology of Tourism
Community Development
Emerging Technologies in Landscape Field Research
Students enrolling in the graduate level course are expected to
complete reflection essays for each of the assigned readings.
Students enrolled at the undergraduate level produce a final
comprehensive paper at the end of the course. All students are
expected to contribute to robust, online discussions in response to
each article.
This course is specific to the Bali Field School program and dually
serves as our pre-departure orientations covering topics such as
travel logistics, expectations and program structure.
Summer B: June 28 - July 28
Our program in Bali includes two courses offered at the graduate
level only (undergraduates receive graduate credit at no additional cost)
This summer, participants have the option (although not required) of
joining us in Japan for an in-bound excursion to visit the shrines and
temple gardens of Kyoto. Participants should arrange for arrival to
Osaka on June 27th or earlier and a departure for Denpasa, Bali on
June 30th.
Participants choosing not to join us in Japan should arrange to
arrive to Bali on July 1st or 2nd.
Landscape Field Research (3 credits)
The Balinese practice a religion called Agama Tirtha, the Science of
Holy Water. This system of beliefs underlies a delicate ecological
balance that has been achieved through 2000 years of refinement.
Today, this balance is under threat. Increasing pressures are
resulting in growing impacts on the natural systems that the Balinese
rely upon for their very survival.
This year, program participants will visit more than a dozen key
water landscape sites on a week-long, cross-island excursion.
Accompanied by evolutionary ecologists, agricultural scientists,
heritage specialists, community planners and landscape architects,
the group will gain insights into the Balinese belief system that
underlies that this cooperative agricultural society while studying the
mounting pressures that threaten Bali's productive and ecological
balance.
Landscape Field School Practicum (3 credits)
After returning to the field school, participants will work with local
community members to develop place-specific and
culturally-sensitive, interpretive design alternatives for spaces
associated with a local urban streamcourse in the foothill village of
Ubud. Design visions will be presented and refined through a series
of community-based workshops that will include the development of
growth management and visioning plans to sustain vital community
heritage landscapes.
