ARC466H1 F
Instructor: Jane Wolff
Meeting Section: L0101 (Fall 2026)

This field-based course begins from the premise that every landscape tells many stories—if we know how to read them. Its goal is to help students build landscape literacy: the ability to decipher a landscape’s layered systems, trace their origins, and make sense of their meanings. Its premise is that knowledge arrives not only through the mind but also through the body, the instincts, and the emotions. Its activities, centred on walking (rain or shine!), ask students to engage these plural ways of knowing to relate to, question, study, measure, describe, and discuss the landscapes we'll traverse together.  What’s at stake? The ways we engage and understand places we know now set the terms for design. Resilient proposals for the future depend on deep knowledge of the web of relationships that constitutes every landscape.