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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:

Arch 483

Urban Theory and Issues (3 cr)

Art 110

Integrated Art and Design Communication (2 cr)

Art 112

Drawing as Integrated Design Thinking (2 cr)

Art 121

Integrated Design Process (2 cr)

Biol 102, 102L

Biology and Society and Lab (4 cr)

For 429

Landscape Ecology (3 cr)

Geol 101, 101L

Physical Geology and Lab (4 cr)

LArc 151

Introduction to the Built Environment (2 cr)

LArc 154

Landscape Architecture Representation and Media 1 (3 cr)

LArc 210

Landscape Architecture Representation and Media 2 (2 cr)

LArc 251

Introduction to Principles of Site Design (3 cr)

LArc 254

Origins of Landscape Form (2 cr)

LArc 268

Landscape Construction 1 (2 cr)

LArc 269

Landscape Construction 2 (2 cr)

LArc 288

Plant Materials and Design 1 (3 cr)

LArc 289

Plant Materials and Design 2 (3 cr)

LArc 310

Landscape Architecture Representation and Media 3 (2 cr)

LArc 353

Landscape Architecture Studio 1 (3 cr)

LArc 355

Landscape Architecture Studio 2 (3 cr)

LArc 358

Professional Office Practice, LA (2 cr)

LArc 363

Landscape Architecture Studio 3 (3 cr)

LArc 365

Landscape Architecture Studio 4 (3 cr)

LArc 368

Landscape Architecture Construction 3 (2 cr)

LArc 369

Landscape Architecture Construction 4 (2 cr)

LArc 380

Water Conservation Technologies (2 cr)

LArc 389

History of Landscape Architecture (3 cr)

LArc 395

GIS Applications in Land Planning 1 (3 cr)

LArc 453

Landscape Architecture Studio 5 (3 cr)

LArc 455

Landscape Architecture Studio 6 (3 cr)

LArc 463

Landscape Architecture Studio 7 (3 cr)

LArc 465

Landscape Architecture Studio 8 (3 cr)

LArc 480

The Emerging Landscape (3 cr)

Math 143

Pre-calculus Algebra and Analytic Geom (3 cr)

Soil 205

The Soil Ecosystem (3 cr)

One of the following (3-4 cr):

Biol 314

Ecology and Population Biology (4 cr)

For 221

Ecology (3 cr)

REM 221

Ecology (3 cr)

Electives to total 128 cr for the degree

Recommended electives:

Art 380

Digital Imaging (3 cr)

CSS 486

Public Involvement in Natural Resource Management (3 cr)

Fish 430

Riparian Ecology and Management (3 cr)

For 235

Society and Natural Resources (3 cr)

For 429

Landscape Ecology (3 cr)

Geol 335

Geomorphology (3 cr)

LArc 364

Summer Study Abroad Design Studio (6 cr)

LArc 382

Landscape, Language and Culture (2 cr)

LArc 390

Italian Hill Towns and Urban Centers (3 cr)

LArc 495

GIS Applications in Land Planning 2 (3 cr)

Phil 452

Environmental Philosophy (3 cr)

VTD 245

Advanced Modeling (3 cr)

VTD 266

Animation (3 cr)

VTD 271

Interactive Technologies (3 cr)