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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 development 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 explore integrative, collaborative, and aesthetic designs that conserve ecosystems services (land, water, air resources), protect biodiversity, and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, while enhancing human social interactions.
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
At least 25 upper division credits in the major just be taken at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.
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 4096 - Internship in Landscape Design and Planning
(1.0 cr)
LA 4755 {Inactive}
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
Landscape Planning
Prepares student for work planning sustainable landscapes at the urban and regional scale.
LA 3004 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
LA 3514 {Inactive}
[CIV]
(3.0 cr)
Ecosystem Pattern and Process Core
These courses prepare students for work planning and designing sustainable landscape at the urban and regional scale. Courses are in urban geography, urban and regional planning, natural resource planning and management, as well as biological and physical sciences.
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)
FNRM 3131 - Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Natural Resources
[TS]
(4.0 cr)
Ecosystem Pattern and Process Electives
In addition to the Ecosystem Pattern and Process core required courses, take 2 or more courses from the following:
BBE 3023 - Ecological Engineering Principles
(3.0 cr)
or
CEGE 3501 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
or
EEB 3603 - Science, Protection, and Management of Aquatic Environments
(3.0 cr)
or
EEB 4609W - Ecosystem Ecology
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
ESCI 3002 - Climate Change and Human History
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
or
ESCI 3004 - Water and Society
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
or
ESCI 3005 - Earth Resources
(3.0 cr)
or
ESCI 4701 - Geomorphology
(4.0 cr)
or
ESCI 4703 - Glacial Geology
(4.0 cr)
or
ESPM 3111 - Hydrology and Water Quality Field Methods
(3.0 cr)
or
ESPM 3221 - Soil Conservation and Land-Use Management
(3.0 cr)
or
ESPM 3575 - Wetlands
(3.0 cr)
or
ESPM 4061W - Water Quality and Natural Resources
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
FNRM 3104 - Forest Ecology
(4.0 cr)
or
FNRM 3114 - Hydrology and Watershed Management
(3.0 cr)
or
FNRM 3203 - Forest Fire and Disturbance Ecology
(3.0 cr)
or
FNRM 5153 - Forest Hydrology & Watershed Biogeochemistry
(3.0 cr)
or
FW 5603W - Habitats and Regulation of Wildlife
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
GEOG 3401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
HORT 5071 - Ecological Restoration
(4.0 cr)
or
LAAS 5515 - Soil Formation: Earth Surface Processes and Biogeochemistry
(3.0 cr)
or
PMB 4321 - Minnesota Flora
(3.0 cr)
or
SOIL 5555 - Wetland Soils
(3.0 cr)
or
URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
or
HORT 1001 - Plant Propagation
[BIOL]
(4.0 cr)
or
ESPM 3108 - Ecology of Managed Systems
[ENV]
(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)
In addition to the Social and Cultural Systems Core courses, students take one course from the following list of electives:
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 4232W - Managing Recreational Lands
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
or
FNRM 4501 - Urban Forest Management: Managing Greenspaces for People
(3.0 cr)
or
GEOG 3361W {Inactive}
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
GEOG 3371W - Cities, Citizens, and Communities
[DSJ, 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 5393 {Inactive}
(4.0 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
URBS 3001W - Introduction to Urban Studies: The Complexity of Metropolitan Life
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
Upper-division Writing Intensive within the major
Students are required to take one upper-division Writing Intensive course within the major. If that requirement has not been satisfied within the core major requirements, students must choose one course from the following list. Some of these courses may also fulfill other major requirements.
Take 0 - 1 course(s) from the following:
·
ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context
[SOCS, CIV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
ARCH 4701W - Introduction to Urban Form and Theory
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
EEB 4609W - Ecosystem Ecology
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 4061W - Water Quality and Natural Resources
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
FNRM 4232W - Managing Recreational Lands
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
·
FW 5603W - Habitats and Regulation of Wildlife
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3361W {Inactive}
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3371W - Cities, Citizens, and Communities
[DSJ, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
HORT 4061W - Turfgrass Management
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
URBS 3001W - Introduction to Urban Studies: The Complexity of Metropolitan Life
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
URBS 1001W - Introduction to Urban Studies: The Complexity of Metropolitan Life
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
A sub-plan is not required for this program.
Integrated BED/MLA Program
The integrated 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 integrated 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.
Integrated 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 integrated 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.
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Course Equivalencies: | Arch 1301/LA 1301/5301 |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESci 3002/ESci 5102 |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3111/ESPM 5111 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3575/ESPM 5575 |
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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 |
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Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
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Course Equivalencies: | Geog 3401W/5401W |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 5071/Hort 5071 |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 5555/Soil 5555 |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3108/ESPM 5108 |
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Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Arch 3711W/Arch 3711V |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
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Course Equivalencies: | Des 3331/DesI 3050 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
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Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3245/ESPM 5245 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
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Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 4232W/FNRM 5232 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
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Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 4501/FNRM 5501 |
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Typically offered: | Periodic Fall |
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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 |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Geog 1973/3973 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Geog 1973/3973 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Arch 3711W/Arch 3711V |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
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Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 4232W/FNRM 5232 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
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Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Fall Even Year |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Urbs 1001W/Urbs 3001W |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Urbs 1001W/Urbs 3001W |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |