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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Landscape Design and Planning B.E.D.
Sub-plan: Landscape Design
Sample Plan: Landscape Design Track
Total Credits: 123.0
The sample plan below shows you one of several possible ways to complete this degree. Your academic plan may look different if you have already fulfilled some requirements, if you have multiple course options to choose from in your major, or if courses don't fit your schedule in a given term. Use Graduation Planner to make your customized plan, and work with your academic adviser to ensure that you are on track to graduate on time.
Year 1 - Fall Semester: 15.0 cr
Freshman Composition :4.0 cr
HORT 1001 - Plant Propagation : 4.0 cr : BIOL
LA 1201 - Learning from the Landscape : 3.0 cr : AH, DSJ
MATH 1031 - College Algebra and Probability : 3.0 cr : MATH
Freshman seminar for one credit 1.0 cr
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 14.0 cr
LA 1401 - The Designed Environment : 3.0 cr : AH
LA 1301 - Introduction to Landscape Architecture Drawing : 3.0 cr : AH
CHEM 1015 - Introductory Chemistry: Lecture : 3.0 cr : PHYS
CHEM 1017 - Introductory Chemistry: Laboratory : 1.0 cr : PHYS
LE (Physical Sciences) :4.0 cr
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 14.0 cr
LA 2301 - Mixed Analog and Digital Representation Methods : 3.0 cr
HORT 1015 - Plant Families for Plant People : 4.0 cr
APEC 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics : 4.0 cr : SOCS, GP
LA 3003 - Climate Change Adaptation : 3.0 cr
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 15.0 cr
LA 2302 - Computer-Aided Representation for Environmental Design : 3.0 cr
LA 3501 - Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context : 3.0 cr : ENV
MGMT 3015 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship : 4.0 cr
Elective :2.0 cr
LE (Civic Life and Ethics) :3.0 cr
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 16.0 cr
ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context : 3.0 cr : SOCS, CIV, WI
ESPM 3108 - Ecology of Managed Systems : 3.0 cr : ENV
HORT 4061W - Turfgrass Management : 3.0 cr : WI
LA 3001 - Understanding and Creating Landscape Space : 4.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 17.0 cr
LA 3002 - Informants of Creating Landscape Space : 4.0 cr
LA 3413 - Introduction to Landscape Architectural History : 3.0 cr : HIS, GP
PLSC 3005W - Introduction to Plant Physiology : 4.0 cr : WI
LE (Literature) :3.0 cr
LE (Writing Intensive - Lower Division) :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Fall Semester: 17.0 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 - Infrastructure, Natural Systems, and Space of Inhabited Landscapes : 3.0 cr : TS
LA 3571 - Landscape Construction: Site Systems and Engineering : 3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Spring Semester: 15.0 cr
LA 4002 - Implementation of Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning Practices : 3.0 cr
LA 3204 - Holistic Landscape Ecology and Bioregional Practice : 3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr