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2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog

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Landscape Architecture Major

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The profession of landscape architecture embodies both the art and science of design, planning, and management of the land and the natural and man-made elements upon it. The program embraces creative, cultural, philosophical, and scientific knowledge bases as part of the educational requirements for a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture professional degree. The professional curriculum prepares students for areas of practice in landscape architecture and planning including site design, urban design, master planning, community planning, regional planning, and natural resource conservation.

Degree Requirements

General Education Requirements

First-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 2-3

English Composition - Total Credits: 6

Second-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 3

Constitutions - Total Credits: 4-6

Mathematics - Total Credits: 3

MATH 126 - Precalculus I

Distribution Requirements: Humanities and Fine Arts

Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking - Total Credits: 10
PHIL 102 - Critical Thinking and Reasoning
Social Science Requirement - Total Credits: 9

Multicultural and International

(see note 1 below)

Additional Degree Requirements

Degree Requirements - Total Credits: 10
COM 101 - Oral Communication
MATH 127 - Precalculus II
GEOG 103 - Physical Geography of Earth’s Environment
and
GEOG 104 - Physical Geography Laboratory
ENV 220 - Introduction to Ecological Principles
AAD 201 - History of the Built Environment/Discussion
and
AAD 201D - History of the Built Environment/Discussion
AAD 400 - Clinical Internship
Major Requirements - Lower Division Total Credits: 33
CFA 101 - Introduction to Environmental Design
LAND 241 - Grading and Drainage (Construction I)
LAND 255 - History of Landscape Architecture
LAND 257 - Plant Materials
LAND 262 - CAD for Landscape Architecture
LAND 284 - Landscape Architecture Design I
LAND 286 - Landscape Architecture Design II
Major Requirements - Upper Division Total Credits: 46
LAND 242 - Irrigation (Construction II)
LAND 258 - Xeric Plant Materials
LAND 306 - Charrette
LAND 384 - Landscape Architecture Design III
LAND 386 - Landscape Architecture Design IV
LAND 442 - Landscape Architecture Structures
LAND 443 - Stormwater Management (Construction IV)
LAND 455 - Landscape Interpretation
LAND 484 - Landscape Architecture Design V
LAND 486 - Landscape Architecture Design VI
LAND 491 - Professional Practice
LAND 499 - Sustainable Design for the 21st Century City

Total Credits: 126-129

Note:

Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements if they appear on the approved lists. However, one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.