Program Description
- STEM designated program
- Accreditation: LAAB
The Landscape Architecture program provides students with educational opportunities to explore sustainable solutions to multifaceted ecological problems. Students learn to innovate, collaborate, and create outdoor environments that reconnect society with nature, encourage healthy lifestyles and tackle climate change and natural disasters Using “hands on” experiential learning, courses increase students’ design creativity, knowledge and skills to become engaged citizens and professionals capable of solving the today’s pressing problems. Students learn to work independently and in teams and to collaborate across disciplines on projects with community members, governmental agencies and environmental groups.
Learning Goals/Outcomes
- Apply knowledge of liberal arts & science to design solutions
- Collaborate in intra- and interdisciplinary teams, particularly through our experiential learning-based design studios
- Exhibit critical understanding of history/theory as applied to the design process
- Analyze the relationship between the design of places and their socio-cultural, environmental and economic contexts through service learning projects.
- Relate government regulations, professional practice and ethical responsibilities to the design process
- Analyze, interpret, and apply cutting-edge research in all stages of the design process
Curriculum: 4 Years, 137-139 Credits
| First Year | Credits | |
|---|---|---|
| FYS 100 | Pathways Seminar | 1 |
| WRIT 101 | Writing Sem I: Written Comm. | 3 |
| BIOL 101 | Current Topics in Biology (Botany) | 3 |
| AVIS 101 | American Visions | 3 |
| ARDS 102 | Design 2: Interd Found Studies | 4 |
| ARDS 106 | Topics in Built Environment 2 | 1 |
| ARDS 108 | Visualization 2 | 2 |
| SCI 110 | Landscape Ecology | 1 |
| MATH 1XX | Mathematics Placeholder | 3-4 |
| WRIT 201 | Writing Seminar II:Multi Comm | 3 |
| ARFD 101 | Design 1 | 4 |
| ARFD 103 | Visualization 1 | 2 |
| ARFD 104 | Topics in the BuiltEnvironment | 1 |
| Credits | 31-32 | |
| Second Year | ||
| ETHC 1XX | Ethics | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Global Diversity Placeholder | ||
| Language I | ||
| ADIV 1XX | American Diversity Placeholder | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Global Citizenship Placeholder | ||
| Language Placeholder | ||
| LARC 201 | LA Design 3: Site Design | 4 |
| LARC 207 | LA Technology: Grading | 3 |
| ARDS 208 | Visual 3:Digitial Mod for Arch | 3 |
| LARC 300 | La Design 4: Urban Dsgn I | 6 |
| LARC 303 | La Tech: Advanced Grading | 3 |
| Credits | 31 | |
| Third Year | ||
| ISEM 360 | Environments for Well-Being | 3 |
| CGIS 300 | Contemporary Global Issues | 3 |
| LARC 304 | LA Design 5: Community Design | 6 |
| LARC 305 | Plant Community Ecology | 3 |
| LARC 206 | History of Landscape Arch 1 | 3 |
| LARC 409 | LA Tech: Materials and Methods | 3 |
| LARC 400 | La Design 6: Restoration Mgmt | 6 |
| LARC 412 | LA Tech: Urban Hydrology | 3 |
| LARC 212 | Local Flora | 3 |
| Credits | 33 | |
| Fourth Year | ||
| PHIL 499 | Philosophies of the Good Life | 3 |
| LARC 401 | LA Design 7: Interdisc Design | 6 |
| LARC 516 | LA Tech: Construction Docs | 4 |
| LARC 307 | History of Landscape Arch 2 | 3 |
| LARC 312 | Sustainable Planting Design | 3 |
| LARC 506 | Professional Practice for LA | 3 |
| LARC 599 | LA Design 8: Capstone Project | 6 |
| General Electives | 12 | |
| Credits | 40 | |
| Total Credits | 135-136 | |