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Landscape Design and Planning Minor

Landscape Architecture, Scl of
College of Design
  • Program Type: Undergraduate minor related to major
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2024
  • Required credits in this minor: 22
The landscape design and planning minor introduces students to the history, theory, and practice of landscape design and planning at various geographic scales and in diverse settings. Landscape design and planning focuses on the creation of livable communities that sustain ecological function, fulfill human aspirations for community development, public health, and safety, and are artistically evocative and meaningful.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Minor Requirements
Required courses
LA 1401 - The Designed Environment [AH] (3.0 cr)
LA 3001 - Understanding and Creating Landscape Space (4.0 cr)
LA 3003 - Climate Change Adaptation (3.0 cr)
LA 3413 - Introduction to Landscape Architectural History [HIS, GP] (3.0 cr)
Electives
Take 9 or more credit(s) from the following:
· EEB 3001 - Ecology and Society [ENV] (3.0 cr)
· ESPM 3108 - Ecology of Managed Systems [ENV] (3.0 cr)
· LA 1201 - Learning from the Landscape [AH, DSJ] (3.0 cr)
· LA 1301 - Introduction to Landscape Architecture Drawing [AH] (3.0 cr)
· LA 1601 - Design and Equity [DSJ, AH] (3.0 cr)
· LA 2301 - Mixed Analog and Digital Representation Methods (3.0 cr)
· LA 3002 - Informants of Creating Landscape Space (4.0 cr)
· LA 3501 - Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context [ENV] (3.0 cr)
· LA 3571 - Landscape Construction: Site Systems and Engineering (3.0 cr)
· LA 3572 - Landscape Construction: Materials, Assemblies and Performance (3.0 cr)
· LA 3801 - Finding Order: An Introduction to Garden Design (3.0 cr)
· LA 4501 - Landscape Analysis (3.0 cr)
· LA 4573 - Landscape Construction: Plant and Soil Systems (3.0 cr)
· LA 5302 - Professional Practice (3.0 cr)
· ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context [SOCS, CIV, WI] (3.0 cr)
or ARCH 3711V - Honors: Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context [SOCS, CIV, WI] (3.0 cr)
 
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LA 1401 - The Designed Environment (AH)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Examination of relationships between place and space, and realms of the ideal and real, public and private. Survey of how the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design have explored those issues.
LA 3001 - Understanding and Creating Landscape Space
Credits: 4.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
The subject of this course is Landscape Architecture. In this class we investigate its principles, focusing on the discipline's distinct fusion of both the arts and sciences to create useful and meaningful outdoor spaces to meet specific environmental and social needs. Class periods alternate between lectures and studio work periods in which students actively work on projects (site analysis, representation, modeling, and oral presentation). Over the course of the semester student receive feedback (instructor, guests, and peer review) and participate in class discussion. Students receive additional assignments including critical literature review, site analysis, and infrastructure research.
LA 3003 - Climate Change Adaptation
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: LA 3003/LA 5003
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course will study nations, regions, cities, and communities that have adapted or are undergoing adaptation to climate change. The course will examine different approaches in planning, policy, economics, infrastructure, and building design that increase the adaptive capacity of human settlements. These approaches will vary in scale from the construction of new neighborhoods to the implementation of storm water gardens. The course will emphasize multi-functional strategies which couple climate change adaptation with other urban improvements. Learning Objectives: To understand role of climate adaptation in the reconfiguration of human settlements. To apply design thinking to the issue of climate adaptation in the context of an urban society.To apply knowledge to challenge-based coursework on managing climate risk, decreasing climate vulnerability, and building resilience to climate change.
LA 3413 - Introduction to Landscape Architectural History (HIS, GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Study of landscape architecture's roots by examining the creation of landscapes over time. Influences of ecological and environmental issues as well as political, economic, and social contexts on the cultural construction of landscape ideas and meaning and creation of landscape architectural works.
EEB 3001 - Ecology and Society (ENV)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Basic concepts in ecology. Organization, development, function of ecosystem. Population growth/regulation. Human effect on ecosystems. prereq: [Jr or sr] recommended; biological sciences students may not apply cr toward major
ESPM 3108 - Ecology of Managed Systems (ENV)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: ESPM 3108/ESPM 5108
Typically offered: Every Fall
Ecology of ecosystems that are primarily composed of managed plant communities, such as managed forests, field-crop agroecosystems, rangelands and nature reserves, parks, and urban open-spaces. Concepts of ecology and ecosystem management. prereq: BIOL 1001 or BIOL 1009 or HORT 1001 or instr consent
LA 1201 - Learning from the Landscape (AH, DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This course is about the ordinary landscape: the objects, spaces, sites, and stories that are the stage for our everyday lives. But the landscape is not just a neutral stage. The landscape influences our lives and we construct and shape the landscape. This course examines the landscape through lenses of race, equity, justice, and climate change, taking an environmental justice framing in our investigations.
LA 1301 - Introduction to Landscape Architecture Drawing (AH)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Arch 1301/LA 1301/5301
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Development of basic skills in perceiving/representing material environment. Sketching/drawing conventions of visual phenomena/forms.
LA 1601 - Design and Equity (DSJ, AH)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: LA 1601/LA 3601
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Investigate world from new perspectives. Spaces of everyday life that reflect/shape values. Meets with LA 3601.
LA 2301 - Mixed Analog and Digital Representation Methods
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Explore multimedia rendering techniques using analog (hand sketching/drawing) and digital techniques for raster and vector image generation used to illustrate landscape architecture analysis and design processes. prereq: LA 1301 OR GDES 1311 OR instructor consent
LA 3002 - Informants of Creating Landscape Space
Credits: 4.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
In this course, you will analyze and design specific projects, considering both their physical and conceptual connection to the larger context in which they are located. The aim is for you to gain an understanding of the relationship of landscape to architecture at the site and urban scales; consider the effects of construction and ground manipulation on the perception and experience of space; and explore the possibilities of layering and transparency, enclosure and adjacencies, in between spaces and connectors. Ultimately, the course will investigate the intersection of physical, biological, and cultural attributes, the opportunities and constraints they produce, the design of space based upon these features, and the [re]presentation of these designs. We will also be building the soft skills that help us grow to be more empathetic and understanding of our client's needs and desired outcomes and practice them throughout the workshop in order to translate experience and input into program + design.
LA 3501 - Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context (ENV)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Dynamic relationships between environmentally designed places and biological/physical contexts. Integration of created place and biological/physical contexts. Case studies, student design.
LA 3571 - Landscape Construction: Site Systems and Engineering
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Theory applications of landform systems for design. Landform typology, representation methods, manipulation techniques, use of land survey data, earthwork construction issues. Spatial accommodation of vehicles in landscape architecture, including road design. prereq: BED major or BED minor or instr consent
LA 3572 - Landscape Construction: Materials, Assemblies and Performance
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
The subject of this course is Landscape Architecture construction. In this technology-based class, the principles, identification, and application of building materials as well as construction standards and creative developmental strategies in the built environment will be explored. Significantly, functional outdoor spaces that meet specific environmental and social needs are a product of the infrastructures that support human occupation. The material?s responsiveness to site, its programming and durability define the abilities of a project scope to deliver superior performance. Over the course of the semester students will research, analyze, document and apply material solutions that meet specific programmatic, aesthetic and performance requirements.
LA 3801 - Finding Order: An Introduction to Garden Design
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Summer
The course explores local gardens and classical gardens and offers students opportunities to learn and practice garden design by engaging students in the first hand observational analysis of extant garden spaces across the Twin Cities.
LA 4501 - Landscape Analysis
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
The subject of this course is Landscape Architecture analysis. Students will explore the principles and practices of experiential site inventory, data analysis, the documentation of landscape resources, site character and morphology. These will be explored at multiple scales using analog and digital tools. Students will evaluate the layers of existing and historic site conditions that comprehensively include but are not limited to- the biophysical, geologic, architectonic, cultural, political, social and economic factors that comprise the existing conditions and their contexts.
LA 4573 - Landscape Construction: Plant and Soil Systems
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
In this course, students will explore the inter-dependent systems of plants and soil in the design and construction of landscapes. Students will learn how to develop construction level planting plans and details, while identifying the contextually rich species and vegetative communities that enhance the performance and experience of landscape space. Students will investigate planting technologies and the unique profiles of soil systems utilized and amended in the construction of site specific landscapes.
LA 5302 - Professional Practice
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
In this course students will examine historic and current models of professional practices for Landscape Architecture. The course will investigate emerging strategies to accommodate future demands within the discipline. Topics will include office and project management, organizational behavior, marketing, sales, strategic planning, financial/cost accounting, insurance, legal issues, contracts and ethics. The class will offer students the opportunity to explore their own emerging professional focuses in light of the organizational structure of the professional landscape architecture practice settings.
ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context (SOCS, CIV, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Arch 3711W/Arch 3711V
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Designed environment as cultural medium/product of sociocultural process/expression of values, ideas, behavioral patterns. Design/construction as complex political process. prereq: Soph or above
ARCH 3711V - Honors: Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context (SOCS, CIV, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Arch 3711W/Arch 3711V
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Designed environment as cultural medium and as product of a sociocultural process and expression of values, ideas, and behavioral patterns. Design/construction as complex political process. prereq: Honors, [soph or above]