Design studio emphasizing design process applied to site programming, landscape analysis, and site planning. Use of actual sites to emphasize relationships between landscape analysis processes, landscape topology, and landscape ecology. Low impact site development practices are stressed. Field trips may be required. Lecture, three hours; studio, nine hours per week. Prereq: LA 121 with a minimum grade of "C", LA 105, LA 162 or equivalent CAD course; and PLS 366 or concurrent enrollment in PLS 366.

An introduction to cultural landscape preservation activities as design strategies. Exploration of regional landscape preservation case studies and applications of preservation methods to landscape preservation issues with an emphasis on research and process. Lecture, two hours; studio, two hours per week.

Studio design course emphasizing site selection and programmatic analysis in landscape master planning for complex site programs. Field trips may be required. Lecture, three hours; studio, nine hours per week.

An introduction to the concepts and methods of compilation, management, analysis, and display of spatially-referenced and tabular data utilizing vector and raster data models. Lecture will be complemented with computer based laboratory exercises. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, four hours per week.

This course focuses on the representation of essential elements of the landscape (structures, landform, water, vegetation, and atmosphere) in three dimensions utilizing a variety of software packages. Students learn about 3D modeling tools that will prepare them later in the course to experiment with a variety of visualization methods. Students will test the appropriateness of visualization methods in search of a balance between realistic representations and software limitations. Lecture, 2 hours; studio, 2 hours per week. Prereq: LA 262 or consent of instructor.

This course focuses on contemporary concepts of land analysis, model development, and ancillary functions in geospatial applications. We attempt to apply concepts from the literature in this course through geospatial technologies to real world situations through individual projects that embraces place. In this course, we will address primarily landscape scale analyses such as watersheds and hydrologic characteristics, viewsheds, least cost path analysis, and enhanced land evaluation and site assessment approaches that have specific relevance to you.

A continuation of landscape architecture design implementation: construction materials, including wood, paving, and walls, along with their applications; preparation of working drawings and materials specifications. Field trips may be required. Lecture, two hours; studio, six hours per week. Prereq: LA 271 with a minimum grade of "C".

Advanced instruction and practicum in the development of design implementation drawings. Students will produce a comprehensive set of schematic design and construction drawings that apply the principles and techniques commonly used in the landscape architecture profession. Field trips may be required. Lecture, three hours; studio, nine hours per week.

Topical studies in landscape architecture allowing for individual research or design experience coordinated with academic pursuits and faculty mentorship and oversight. May be repeated with additional credits applied as an elective. Prereq: Permission of faculty.

Topical seminars on current issues of significance to landscape architecture. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits under different subtitles.