PRINCIPLES OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AND GRAPHICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Landscape Architecture BLA Course Designation: Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply design skills to advanced site planning projects at a variety of scales. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explain how the design process creates forms, objects, spaces, and experiences. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Implement communication skills through computer graphics, hand graphics, verbal exercises, and written exercises. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain how the elements of site planning work together to integrate form, function, and social experience. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Incorporate design ethics that support diversity, inclusion, and equity, while creating places that respond to environmental, climate, and social justice Audience: Undergraduate 6. Apply research to support evidence-based design to improve the health and well-being of both human and nonhuman systems Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply design skills to advanced site planning projects at a variety of scales. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explain how the design process creates forms, objects, spaces, and experiences. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Implement communication skills through computer graphics, hand graphics, verbal exercises, and written exercises. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain how the elements of site planning work together to integrate form, function, and social experience. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Incorporate design ethics that support diversity, inclusion, and equity, while creating places that respond to environmental, climate, and social justice Audience: Undergraduate 6. Apply research to support evidence-based design to improve the health and well-being of both human and nonhuman systems Audience: Undergraduate