Landscape Architecture (B.S.L.A.)
Students are typically accepted into the landscape architecture B.S.L.A. major as freshman or as transfer students. All new students whether freshman or transfer will be required to submit a portfolio of creative work at the end of their first year in the program. (Students are encouraged to include work from landscape architecture courses and any art or architecture courses they may have taken.) A committee of faculty will review this portfolio along with each student's cumulative GPA to determine their eligibility to continue in the program. Portfolios are due no later than the Monday of No Examination Week. All students will be notified of their eligibility for the coming fall semester no later than three weeks after the last day of classes of spring semester.
All majors in the program must maintain at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA in landscape architecture major courses. Failure to do so will require the student to meet with their advisor and repeat the landscape architecture major courses that impact this overall GPA before advancing in the program.
On registering for a course offered by the program, the student agrees that the college may retain work completed by the student for display, instruction, and accreditation purposes.
Computer Equipment: beginning with the second year of the program, all landscape architecture students are required to have their own laptop computer and appropriate software for use in their studios.
Required course work includes the university requirements (see regulation J-3) and:
Urban Theory and Issues (3 cr) |
|
Integrated Art and Design Communication (2 cr) |
|
Drawing as Integrated Design Thinking (2 cr) |
|
Integrated Design Process (2 cr) |
|
Biol 102, 102L |
Biology and Society and Lab (4 cr) |
Landscape Ecology (3 cr) |
|
Geol 101, 101L |
Physical Geology and Lab (4 cr) |
Introduction to the Built Environment (2 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Representation and Media 1 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Representation and Media 2 (2 cr) |
|
Introduction to Principles of Site Design (3 cr) |
|
Origins of Landscape Form (2 cr) |
|
Landscape Construction 1 (2 cr) |
|
Landscape Construction 2 (2 cr) |
|
Plant Materials and Design 1 (3 cr) |
|
Plant Materials and Design 2 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Representation and Media 3 (2 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Studio 1 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Studio 2 (3 cr) |
|
Professional Office Practice, LA (2 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Studio 3 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Studio 4 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Construction 3 (2 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Construction 4 (2 cr) |
|
Water Conservation Technologies (2 cr) |
|
History of Landscape Architecture (3 cr) |
|
GIS Applications in Land Planning 1 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Studio 5 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Studio 6 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Studio 7 (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Architecture Studio 8 (3 cr) |
|
The Emerging Landscape (3 cr) |
|
Pre-calculus Algebra and Analytic Geom (3 cr) |
|
The Soil Ecosystem (3 cr) |
One of the following (3-4 cr):
Ecology and Population Biology (4 cr) |
|
Ecology (3 cr) |
|
Ecology (3 cr) |
Electives to total 128 cr for the degree
Recommended electives:
Digital Imaging (3 cr) |
|
Public Involvement in Natural Resource Management (3 cr) |
|
Riparian Ecology and Management (3 cr) |
|
Society and Natural Resources (3 cr) |
|
Landscape Ecology (3 cr) |
|
Geomorphology (3 cr) |
|
Summer Study Abroad Design Studio (6 cr) |
|
Landscape, Language and Culture (2 cr) |
|
Italian Hill Towns and Urban Centers (3 cr) |
|
GIS Applications in Land Planning 2 (3 cr) |
|
Environmental Philosophy (3 cr) |
|
Advanced Modeling (3 cr) |
|
Animation (3 cr) |
|
Interactive Technologies (3 cr) |