Visual Culture: Environment and Nature

Education facts

Code: KOVN15

<p>In this course, you explore how nature, the environment, animals and the climate are represented in visual arts and media. You examine how images shape our understanding and experience of the natural world from historical, philosophical, aesthetic and ecological perspectives.</p><p>In this course, you explore how the environment, nature, animals and the climate are represented and understood in visual arts and media. The course examines how these representations shape our experience of and ideas about the natural world, while considering their historical, social and cultural contexts.</p><p>The course is structured around three themes: animal and human, environment and nature, and anthropocentrism and biocentrism. Key topics include landscape and environmental aesthetics, ecological perspectives in art and visual culture, and the ways different media shape representations of nature and the environment. The course approaches these topics from historical, philosophical, aesthetic and interdisciplinary perspectives, while also considering how representations of the environment relate to knowledge, science and power.</p>

Entry requirements

To be admitted to the course, students must have passed 90 credits including a Bachelor’s degree project of 15 credits in Art History and Visual Studies, Architecture, Film Studies, Design Studies, or the equivalent.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Visual Culture: Environment and Nature

  Lund University

  Lund

  Start date: 18 January 2027

  End date: 28 March 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %