SURVEY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
Principles of landscape and environmental design; incorporates elements of landscape planning and management. Provides background to the ideas and personalities shaping landscape architecture in America. Establishes design basics with a focus on the processes used by landscape architects to create meaningful site and context-sensitive designs in the built and natural environment.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the many facets of Landscape Architecture, and the influence of landscape design on human health, safety, and welfare, and on both cultural and natural ecosystems. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify the basic building blocks of design to understand how and why designed spaces are put together and be able to demonstrate the use of a landscape design process to create more sustainable designs. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and describe influential people, organizations, and ideas that have influenced the profession in the past and those that are contributing to it today. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Summarize the profession of landscape architecture and their professional ethics and social and environmental responsibilities. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify and compare the issues affecting our natural and cultural environments, such as climate change, and how landscape architecture addresses these concerns. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Evaluate and analyze landscapes around us for enjoyment and an improved understanding of spatial awareness. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Illustrate basic site design concepts and analysis data. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the many facets of Landscape Architecture, and the influence of landscape design on human health, safety, and welfare, and on both cultural and natural ecosystems. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify the basic building blocks of design to understand how and why designed spaces are put together and be able to demonstrate the use of a landscape design process to create more sustainable designs. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and describe influential people, organizations, and ideas that have influenced the profession in the past and those that are contributing to it today. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Summarize the profession of landscape architecture and their professional ethics and social and environmental responsibilities. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify and compare the issues affecting our natural and cultural environments, such as climate change, and how landscape architecture addresses these concerns. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Evaluate and analyze landscapes around us for enjoyment and an improved understanding of spatial awareness. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Illustrate basic site design concepts and analysis data. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027