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Twin Cities Campus
Landscape Design and Planning B.E.D.Landscape Architecture, Scl of
College of Design
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. Core courses in design and planning introduce students to the history, theory, and practice of landscape design and planning at various geographic scales and in diverse settings. Students create integrative, collaborative, and beautiful designs for regions, communities, and sites to conserve ecosystems services and water and air resources, protect biodiversity, and to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
A GPA above 2.0 is preferred for the following:
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
General Requirements
All students in baccalaureate degree programs are required to complete general University and college requirements including writing and liberal education courses. For more information about University-wide requirements, see the
liberal education requirements.
Required courses for the major, minor or certificate in which a student receives a D grade (with or without plus or minus) do not count toward the major, minor or certificate (including transfer courses).
Program Requirements
Design
LA 1201 - Learning from the Landscape
[AH, DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
LA 1401 - The Designed Environment
[AH]
(3.0 cr)
LA 3001 - Understanding and Creating Landscape Space
(4.0 cr)
LA 3002 - Informants of Creating Landscape Space
(4.0 cr)
LA 3003 - Climate Change Adaptation
(3.0 cr)
LA 4001 - Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning Practices Studio
(4.0 cr)
LA 4002 - Implementation of Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning Practices
(3.0 cr)
LA 4096 - Internship in Landscape Design and Planning
(1.0 cr)
LA 4755 {Inactive}
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
Ecosystem Pattern and Process Core
ESPM 3108 - Ecology of Managed Systems
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
HORT 1001 - Plant Propagation
[BIOL]
(4.0 cr)
LA 3501 - Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
LA 3204 - Holistic Landscape Ecology and Bioregional Practice
(3.0 cr)
LA 3571 - Landscape Construction: Site Systems and Engineering
(3.0 cr)
Social and Cultural Systems Core
LA 3413 - Introduction to Landscape Architectural History
[HIS, GP]
(3.0 cr)
ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context
[SOCS, CIV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Accelerated Program
This sub-plan is optional and does not fulfill the sub-plan requirement for
this program.
The accelerated status option admits a limited number of students annually and allows qualified undergraduates to complete the B.E.D. and M.L.A. in six years rather than seven years.
Applicants for the accelerated status must complete the first three years of the B.E.D. degree requirements before their senior year. Students must complete the first year of the professional degree program in their undergraduate senior year. These courses carry upper division credit and satisfy senior year B.E.D. requirements.
Accelerated status is granted on a competitive basis and does not admit any student to the graduate professional program. Separate requirements, such as letters of recommendation, a letter of interest, and other application documents, must be submitted in January of the year that students are seeking admission to the graduate program. B.E.D. graduates who have completed the accelerated status option and applied to the M.L.A. professional degree program will receive advanced standing in the M.L.A. program upon acceptance by the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Graduate School.
Landscape Design
The design track prepares students for a career in the design of sustainable landscapes at the residential and small-scale commercial level.
The landscape design track also requires students to take courses in biological science, plant materials, landscape management, and small business management.
Landscape Design--Ecosystem Pattern and Process
HORT 1015 - Plant Families for Plant People
(4.0 cr)
PLSC 3005W - Introduction to Plant Physiology
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
HORT 4061W - Turfgrass Management
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
Landscape Planning
The landscape planning track prepares students for work planning sustainable landscape at the urban and regional scale.
The landscape planning track requires additional courses in urban geography, urban and regional planning, natural resource planning and management, as well as biological and physical sciences. Students in this track should select GEOG 1502 to complete the mathematical thinking requirement.
Landscape Planning--Ecosystem Pattern and Process
FNRM 3131 - Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Natural Resources
[TS]
(4.0 cr)
LA 3004 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
LA 3514 {Inactive}
[CIV]
(3.0 cr)
Take 2 or more course(s) from the following:
·
BBE 3023 - Ecological Engineering Principles
(3.0 cr)
·
BBE 5513 - Watershed Engineering
(3.0 cr)
·
BIOL 3407 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
BIOL 3409 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
CEGE 3501 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
EEB 3603 - Science, Protection, and Management of Aquatic Environments
(3.0 cr)
·
EEB 4609W - Ecosystem Ecology
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESCI 3002 - Climate Change and Human History
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESCI 3004 - Water and Society
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESCI 3005 - Earth Resources
(3.0 cr)
·
ESCI 4701 - Geomorphology
(4.0 cr)
·
ESCI 4703 - Glacial Geology
(4.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3101 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3111 - Hydrology and Water Quality Field Methods
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3221 - Soil Conservation and Land-Use Management
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3575 - Wetlands
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 4061W - Water Quality and Natural Resources
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
FNRM 3104 - Forest Ecology
(4.0 cr)
·
FNRM 3114 - Hydrology and Watershed Management
(3.0 cr)
·
FNRM 3203 - Forest Fire and Disturbance Ecology
(3.0 cr)
·
FNRM 5146 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
FNRM 5153 - Forest Hydrology & Watershed Biogeochemistry
(3.0 cr)
·
FW 5603W - Habitats and Regulation of Wildlife
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
HORT 5071 - Ecological Restoration
(4.0 cr)
·
LA 5574 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
LAAS 5515 - Soil Formation: Earth Surface Processes and Biogeochemistry
(3.0 cr)
·
PMB 4321 - Minnesota Flora
(3.0 cr)
·
SOIL 5555 - Wetland Soils
(3.0 cr)
·
URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
Landscape Planning--Social and Cultural Systems
GEOG 3371W - Cities, Citizens, and Communities
[DSJ, WI]
(3.0 cr)
Take one course from the following
ARCH 4445W {Inactive}
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
ARCH 4671 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
or
ARCH 4701W - Introduction to Urban Form and Theory
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
DES 3331 - Street Life Urban Design Seminar
(3.0 cr)
or
ESPM 3245 - Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
or
FNRM 4501 - Urban Forest Management: Managing Greenspaces for People
(3.0 cr)
or
GEOG 3361W {Inactive}
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
GEOG 3373 - Changing Form of the City
[HIS, GP]
(3.0 cr)
or
GEOG 3376 - Political Ecology
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
or
GEOG 3973 - Geography of the Twin Cities
[SOCS]
(3.0 cr)
or
GEOG 5393 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
or
LA 4755 {Inactive}
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
or
PA 4200 - Urban and Regional Planning
(3.0 cr)
or
PA 5013 - Law and Urban Land Use
(1.5 cr)
or
PA 5211 - Land Use Planning
(3.0 cr)
or
PA 5221 - Private Sector Development
(3.0 cr)
or
PA 5251 - Strategic Planning and Management
(3.0 cr)
or
PA 5253 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
or
FNRM 4232W - Managing Recreational Lands
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
or
URBS 3001W - Introduction to Urban Studies: The Complexity of Metropolitan Life
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
URBS 3301W {Inactive}
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
Honors UHP
This is an honors sub-plan.
Students admitted to the University Honors Program (UHP) must fulfill UHP requirements, in addition to degree program requirements. Honors courses used to fulfill degree program requirements will also fulfill UHP requirements.
Current departmental honors course offerings are listed at: http://www.honors.umn.edu/academics/curriculum/dept_courses_current.html
Honors students complete an honors thesis project in the final year, most often in conjunction with an honors thesis course, or with an honors directed studies, or honors directed research course. Students select honors courses and plan for a thesis project in consultation with their UHP adviser and their departmental faculty adviser.
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Course Equivalencies: | LA 3003/LA 5003 |
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Course Equivalencies: | Arch 1301/LA 1301/5301 |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3108/ESPM 5108 |
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Course Equivalencies: | Arch 3711W/Arch 3711V |
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Grading Basis: | OPT No Aud |
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Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Fall Even Year |
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Course Equivalencies: | CI 1806/Math 1031 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
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Course Equivalencies: | Chem 1011/Chem 1015 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
Credits: | 1.0 [max 1.0] |
Prerequisites: | [1015 or &1015], %; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 1011; CHEM 1017 is a 1-credit lab-only course. This course is not intended for students who are planning to take CHEM 1061/1065. Intended only for students who need the course to fulfill the Physical Science/Lab requirement, and are taking CHEM 1015 either concurrently or consecutively. This course will NOT fulfill the Physical Science/Lab core requirement, unless CHEM 1015 is completed either concurrently or consecutively.; meets Lib Ed req of Physical Sciences) |
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Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
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Course Equivalencies: | Econ 1101/1165 ApEc 1101/1101H |
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Course Equivalencies: | IBUS 3010/MGMT 3010/MGMT 3015 |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESci 3002/ESci 5102 |
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Typically offered: | Spring Even Year |
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Typically offered: | Periodic Fall |
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Typically offered: | Every Fall |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3111/ESPM 5111 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
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Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3575/ESPM 5575 |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
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Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 3104/FNRM 5104 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
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Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 3114/FNRM 5114 |
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Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 3203/FNRM 5203 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
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Typically offered: | Spring Odd Year |
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Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
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Credits: | 3.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Geog 3401W/5401W |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 5071/Hort 5071 |
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Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 5555/Soil 5555 |
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Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Des 3331/DesI 3050 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3245/ESPM 5245 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 4501/FNRM 5501 |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
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Course Equivalencies: | Geog 1973/3973 |
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Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | OPT No Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 4232W/FNRM 5232 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Urbs 1001W/Urbs 3001W |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
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Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |