Project: thinking about landscape

When I think of a landscape, paintings by the great painters of our time spring to mind....and not much more really. I like the idea of urban landscape, but what is this exactly? what does it include, what does it try to convey? I enrolled on this course in order to expand my knowledge and therefore appreciation of what landscape is and to create my own interpretation of landscape that means something to me. This course will be a huge challenge to me as it's my first level 2 course after competing 3 level 1 courses. My first impression of the course material is...there's quite a lot of it, and secondly, there is little requirement to take photos, which is the element of the course which I enjoy most, I've struggled to find the words to write when descriptive input has been required, and I don't really have the time to read a great deal. But I'm up for the challenge, have a desire to improve and achieve the standard level 2 requires.