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Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture, Scl of
College of Design
  • Program Type: Baccalaureate
  • Requirements for this program are current for Spring 2022
  • Required credits to graduate with this degree: 120
  • Required credits within the major: 89
  • No, this program will be taught only on the U of M Twin Cities Campus.
  • Degree: Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture is the design discipline concerned with the design, planning, and management of the land. Landscape architects use their knowledge of natural and infrastructural systems to create, plan, and preserve landscapes for human use, ecological function, and climate resilience. Landscape architects regularly work with other disciplines in this pursuit such as architects, civil engineers, urban planners, ecologists, and geoscientists, among others. The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program prepares students for this field through courses focused on design and creativity, technology, socio/cultural and ecological systems, as well as theoretical and scientific knowledge bases. The eight semester curriculum will further prepare students for the professional practice of landscape architecture, which includes site design/development, urban design/planning, regional planning, and the design of climate resilient and sustainable landscapes across a broad range of types and scales. The program prepares graduates for entry into professional practice or pursuit of advanced study in landscape architecture or related disciplines.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Admission Requirements
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 27 upper division credits in the major must be taken at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Core Coursework
The core curriculum is guided by the 2016 accreditation standards for professional curriculum as set forth by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board (LAAB). There are eight main themes to this professional core curriculum, covering topics on history and theory, design processes, natural and cultural systems, communication, implementation, digital applications, landscape assessment, and professional practice.
Studio Coursework
The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture curriculum prepares students for the professional practice of landscape architecture, which includes site design/development, urban design/planning, regional planning, and the design of climate resilient and sustainable landscapes across a broad range of types and scales. Program courses are focused on design and creativity, technology, socio/cultural and ecological systems, as well as theoretical and scientific knowledge bases.
ARCH 1281 - Design Fundamentals I [AH] (4.0 cr)
ARCH 2281 - Design Fundamentals II (4.0 cr)
LA 3001 - Understanding and Creating Landscape Space (4.0 cr)
LA 3002 - Informants of Creating Landscape Space (4.0 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 4901 - Design of Regional Landscapes (4.0 cr)
LA 4902 - Advanced Landscape Architecture Design (4.0 cr)
Technical Coursework
LA 3571 - Landscape Construction: Site Systems and Engineering (3.0 cr)
LA 3572 - Landscape Construction: Materials, Assemblies and Performance (3.0 cr)
LA 4573 - Landscape Construction: Plant and Soil Systems (3.0 cr)
Representation Coursework
LA 2301 - Mixed Analog and Digital Representation Methods (3.0 cr)
LA 2302 - Computer-Aided Representation for Environmental Design (3.0 cr)
LA 1301 - Introduction to Landscape Architecture Drawing [AH] (3.0 cr)
or GDES 1311 - Foundations: Drawing and Design in Two and Three Dimensions (4.0 cr)
or ARCH 2301 - Drawing and Critical Thinking (4.0 cr)
Additional Required Coursework
DES 1001 - Introducing the College of Design (1.0 cr)
EEB 3001 - Ecology and Society [ENV] (3.0 cr)
LA 1401 - The Designed Environment [AH] (3.0 cr)
LA 1601 - Design and Equity [DSJ, AH] (3.0 cr)
LA 3003 - Climate Change Adaptation (3.0 cr)
LA 3413 - Introduction to Landscape Architectural History [HIS, GP] (3.0 cr)
LA 3501 - Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context [ENV] (3.0 cr)
LA 4096 - Internship in Landscape Design and Planning (1.0 cr)
LA 4501 - Landscape Analysis (3.0 cr)
LA 5302 - Professional Practice (3.0 cr)
HORT 1015 - Plant Families for Plant People (4.0 cr)
ARCH 1621W - Introduction to Critical Inquiry in Practice [WI] (3.0 cr)
or ARCH 1621V - Introduction to Critical Inquiry in Practice [WI] (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)
To meet the Biological Sciences Core Elective take BIO 1055, HORT 1001, or GEOG 1403
BIOL 1055 - Environmental Biology: Science and Solutions with Laboratory [BIOL, ENV] (4.0 cr)
or HORT 1001 - Plant Propagation [BIOL] (4.0 cr)
or GEOG 1403 - Biogeography of the Global Garden [BIOL, ENV] (4.0 cr)
or GEOG 1403H - Honors: Biogeography of the Global Garden [BIOL, ENV] (4.0 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 3711V - Honors: Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context [SOCS, CIV, WI] (3.0 cr)
· 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)
· BSE 3361W {Inactive} [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)
 
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ARCH 1281 - Design Fundamentals I (AH)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Using architecture broadly defined, students will develop essential habits of work and mind, as well as an ability to understand the relationship between drawing, making and exploring. The course will introduce and begin to build an understanding of the role of iteration and critique, as well as traditional and contemporary modes of representation in architecture.
ARCH 2281 - Design Fundamentals II
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Foundation architectural design studio. Design principles, technical drawing, material manipulation.
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 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 4001 - Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning Practices Studio
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Applications of sustainable landscape design and planning practices. Examination of the systemic, formal, and spatial relationships across the integration of these practices and quantitative and qualitative changes in biodiversity, quality of the earth?s air, soil, and water resources, development and consumption of energy resources and climate change. Development of design processes for selection, deployment, and management of sustainable practices to create evocative and meaningful landscape in the context of cultural change. prereq: LA 2302 and LA 3002 or instructor consent.
LA 4002 - Implementation of Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning Practices
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Capstone experience. Service-learning project. Groups of students develop sustainable landscape designs/plans that address project implementation. prereq: 1301, 2301, 2302, 3001, 3002, 3003, 4001
LA 4901 - Design of Regional Landscapes
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This design and planning studio focuses on challenges in the creation of sustainable frameworks for resilient multifunctional regional landscapes. This studio will explore the interconnected systems of landscapes at a large, planning scale and engage communities by studying current issues that impact Minnesota landscapes, places, and people. The studio will employ digital geographic information systems and large scale landscape analysis tools to tackle future design and planning issues facing large suburban and/or rural regions. Projects will be approached through a combination of team and individual assignments requiring field work, environmental and human (social, economic, political, etc.) analysis, scenario planning, and visual representation techniques.
LA 4902 - Advanced Landscape Architecture Design
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
This final design studio explores emerging design topics in landscape architecture at various scales and across different project types. Each student will be presented with design problems of high complexity as defined by their studio instructor. Exact project sites and programs will vary each year with attention to professional currency and emerging literature. Topics will focus on emerging areas of practice related to urban landscape architecture, climate change adaptation, and/or resilient design. This studio will emphasize professional processes, responsibilities, and outcomes as a final preparation for professional practice.
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 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 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 2302 - Computer-Aided Representation for Environmental Design
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Use of computer-aided design (CAD) technologies in developing, representing, and communicating environmental design ideas. Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk AutoCAD, DynaSCAPE, ESRI ArcMap, etc. Integration of images generated from various computer and hand-rendered technologies.
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.
GDES 1311 - Foundations: Drawing and Design in Two and Three Dimensions
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Design elements and principles in context of observational drawing. Integrative approach to two-dimensional design, three-dimensional design, and drawing. Broad conceptual framework for design exploration. Emphasizes perceptual aspects of visual forms.
ARCH 2301 - Drawing and Critical Thinking
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Arch 1301/Arch 5371/LA 5301/LA
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This course provides an in-depth foundation for understanding how drawing functions as a discipline-specific way of thinking, brings self-critical precision to non-verbal production, and supports processes of conceptual exploration. prereq: Arch 2281 or department consent
DES 1001 - Introducing the College of Design
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
DES 1001 Is a 1 cr. topics course. This course provides a set of experiences that help to explain the concepts of design through the lenses of different fields of design, both traditional and emerging, within the College of Design. Students from various design disciplines will engage in design experiences that teach them how designers from different fields identify, define and solve problems. They will be introduced to the resources offered to designers in the College of Design through hands-on experiences. Students will reflect upon their experiences by participating in a series of experiences, by submitting a series of reflection pieces, and completing a culminating project that will be shared with class members and invited stakeholders. Through this engagement, students will learn about each other and their motivations for being in the College of Design, as well as gain an understanding of the breadth of the college and its resources as they begin their design education.
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
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 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 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.
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 4096 - Internship in Landscape Design and Planning
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N only
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Supervised professional experience in environmental design firms or government agencies. Students perform professional services and relate these experiences to their education in environmental design. prereq: 1301, 2301, 2302, 3001, 3002, 3003
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 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.
HORT 1015 - Plant Families for Plant People
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
The most recent surveys reveal there are 347,298 vascular plant species in the world! During this course, you will acquire the skills that will allow you to identify many plants you encounter day-to-day in Minnesota and around the world. By the end of the term, you will have been introduced to over 150 woody and herbaceous plants and learned the key distinguishing features for identifying some of the most important ones. You will be introduced to plant families that are important from a human perspective, where in the world they are most commonly found, some of the problems they can experience or create, and some of the ways they are used by humans.
ARCH 1621W - Introduction to Critical Inquiry in Practice (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Arch 1621W/Arch 1621V
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course introduces beginning architecture and landscape architecture students to critical inquiry in disciplinary research and professional practice through guest lectures, readings and discussions. Weekly exercises help develop a beginning-level understanding of the depth and breadth of architectural inquiry in its contemporary context, i.e., as a complex, multi-dimensional, multidisciplinary endeavor with myriad ethical implications. For the final project, students will extend individual curiosity from course materials and presentations into a meaningful proposal for basic or applied research. Students who are engaged in course materials will begin to understand: architecture, landscape architecture and design more broadly as an ecology of practices; the historical, contemporary and projective framework for architecture education; the historical, contemporary and projective framework for architecture as a profession; and specifically how these relate especially in this region.
ARCH 1621V - Introduction to Critical Inquiry in Practice (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Arch 1621W/Arch 1621V
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course introduces beginning architecture and landscape architecture students to critical inquiry in disciplinary research and professional practice through guest lectures, readings, and discussions. Weekly exercises help develop a beginning-level understanding of the depth and breadth of architectural inquiry in its contemporary context, i.e., as a complex, multi-dimensional, multidisciplinary endeavor with myriad ethical implications. For the final project, students will extend individual curiosity from course materials and presentations into a meaningful proposal for basic or applied research. Students who are engaged in course materials will begin to understand: architecture, landscape architecture, and design more broadly as an ecology of practices; the historical, contemporary, and projective framework for architecture education; the historical, contemporary, and projective framework for architecture as a profession; and specifically how these relate especially in this region.
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]
BIOL 1055 - Environmental Biology: Science and Solutions with Laboratory (BIOL, ENV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Biol 1050/Biol 1055
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Explores science behind environmental topics. Delves into the interface of science and policy, environmental decision-making and ethics. Topics include biodiversity, env. toxicology, food production, and climate change. In lab students conduct the work of biologists, proposing hypotheses, conducting experiments, and analyzing/interpreting data. This course is intended to engage non-biology majors in the work of biology, studying current biological knowledge through evidence-based discussions of what is currently known, and by addressing science that is unknown to the students (and, at times to the biological community) through the generation and testing of hypotheses, collection and analysis of data, and practice of making data-informed conclusions.
HORT 1001 - Plant Propagation (BIOL)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Principles and techniques of propagating plants by seeds, cuttings, grafts, buds, layers, and division. Lectures on principles; labs on practice of various propagating techniques.
GEOG 1403 - Biogeography of the Global Garden (BIOL, ENV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Geog 1403/Geog 1403H
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
GEOG 1403H - Honors: Biogeography of the Global Garden (BIOL, ENV)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: Geog 1403/Geog 1403H
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes. prereq: Honors
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]
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 4701W - Introduction to Urban Form and Theory (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Spring
Urban form, related issues of design/theory/culture. Thematic history of cities. Lectures, discussions, assignments. prereq: [3411, 3412] or instr consent
EEB 4609W - Ecosystem Ecology (ENV, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Regulation of energy and elements cycling through ecosystems. Dependence of cycles on kinds/numbers of species within ecosystems. Effects of human-induced global changes on functioning of ecosystems.
ESPM 4061W - Water Quality and Natural Resources (ENV, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Water quality decision making. International focus. Ecology of aquatic ecosystems, how they are valuable to society and changed by landscape management. Case studies, impaired waters, TMDL process, student engagement in simulating water quality decision making.
FNRM 4232W - Managing Recreational Lands (WI)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies: FNRM 4232W/FNRM 5232
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Most of us participate in some form of outdoor recreation: hiking, hunting, riding all-terrain vehicles, or simply enjoying nature. Managing for outdoor recreation on public lands is mandated by federal law and an integral part of natural resource management. In this class, we'll learn why and how agencies manage recreation at the federal level, the management frameworks that guide this work, and apply management principles to an actual federal property in Minnesota. This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the principles and practices of outdoor recreation management. Specific objectives are to: 1)compare and contrast federal recreation land management policies & organizations, 2)develop and demonstrate an understanding of conceptual frameworks for recreation resource and visitor use management, 3)evaluate visitor caused impacts to resources and to visitor experiences, 4)understand and apply management tools designed to reduce recreation- related impacts and conflicts, and 5)demonstrate an understanding of course material through exams & applied assignments.
FW 5603W - Habitats and Regulation of Wildlife (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Environmental interactions of wildlife at population/community levels. Environmental threats from human activities. Habitat management practices. Objectives, policies, regulations in population management. prereq: [FW 4102 or FW 4103], [EEB 3407 or EEB 3408 or EEB 3807]
GEOG 3371W - Cities, Citizens, and Communities (DSJ, WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Introduction to cities and suburbs as unique crossroads of cultural, social, and political processes. Competing/conflicting visions of city life, cultural diversity, and justice. Focuses on the American city.
HORT 4061W - Turfgrass Management (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Fall Even Year
Biology of turfgrasses, ecology of landscape systems. Installation, management, and culture of turfgrass communities and landscape plant systems. Sod production, industrial grounds, lawn care, park/recreation areas, athletic field/business management. Case studies. prereq: 1001 or instr consent
URBS 3001W - Introduction to Urban Studies: The Complexity of Metropolitan Life (WI)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Urbs 1001W/Urbs 3001W
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Interdisciplinary course, ranging across spatial, historical, economic, political, and design perspectives, among many others.