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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Landscape Design and Planning B.E.D.
Sample Plan: Landscape Design and Planning Sample Plan
Total Credits: 121.0
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Year 1 - Fall Semester: 14.0 cr
Freshman Composition :4.0 cr
LA 1201 - Learning from the Landscape : 3.0 cr : AH, DSJ
LA 1301 - Introduction to Landscape Architecture Drawing : 3.0 cr : AH
HORT 1001 - Plant Propagation : 4.0 cr : BIOL : Preferred Course
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 15.0 cr
LA 1401 - The Designed Environment : 3.0 cr : AH
LE (Literature) :3.0 cr
LE (Physical Sciences) :3.0 cr
LE (Writing Intensive - Lower Division) :3.0 cr
LE (Mathematical Thinking) :3.0 cr
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 16.0 cr
ARCH 3711W - Environmental Design and the Sociocultural Context : 3.0 cr : SOCS, CIV, WI
LA 2301 - Mixed Analog and Digital Representation Methods : 3.0 cr
LA 3001 - Understanding and Creating Landscape Space : 4.0 cr
LA 3003 - Climate Change Adaptation : 3.0 cr
LE (Writing Intensive - Lower Division) :3.0 cr
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 14.0 cr
FNRM 3131 - Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Natural Resources : 4.0 cr : TS
LA 3501 - Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context : 3.0 cr : ENV
GEOG 3371W - Cities, Citizens, and Communities : 3.0 cr : DSJ, WI : Preferred Course
LA 3002 - Informants of Creating Landscape Space : 4.0 cr
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 16.0 cr
LA 3571 - Landscape Construction: Site Systems and Engineering : 3.0 cr
LA 4755 - Infrastructure, Natural Systems, and Space of Inhabited Landscapes : 3.0 cr : TS
LA 4001 - Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning Practices Studio : 4.0 cr
LA 3413 - Introduction to Landscape Architectural History : 3.0 cr : HIS, GP
ESPM 3245 - Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy : 3.0 cr : ENV
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 16.0 cr
LA 3204 - Holistic Landscape Ecology and Bioregional Practice : 3.0 cr
LA 3004 - Regional Environmental Landscape Planning : 4.0 cr
LA 3514 - Making the Mississippi : 3.0 cr : CIV
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Fall Semester: 15.0 cr
BBE 3023 - Ecological Engineering Principles : 3.0 cr
ESPM 3108 - Ecology of Managed Systems : 3.0 cr : ENV : Preferred Course
Elective :4.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
LA 4096 - Internship in Landscape Design and Planning : 1.0 cr
Year 4 - Spring Semester: 15.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
LE (Diversity and Soc Justice US) :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr