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University of Massachusetts
Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture http://www.umass.edu/ Code
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DESIGN STUDIO SEQUENCE 36 This is the core of the landscape architecture program. Students learn the principles, methods, processes, and techniques of landscape architecture design. Each studio provides progressively more complex problems with most studios divided into two seven-week segments. Each segment has a different instructor to insure a diverse range of project types, scales, and points of view. « Hide info PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 3 Looks at models of professional office structure: management, organizational behavior, and economics. Guest professionals will give their insights of the profession and how an office should be managed. topics include: ethics, contracts, compensation, specifications, contract management, marketing, budgets, and cost analysis. Personal career planning is also introduced. « Hide info CITY PLANNING 3 Brief history of land and resource use, development of communities and urbanization. Introduction to problems of cities and metropolitan areas including population, land use, economic base, housing, transportation, municipal government, decentralization control, and capital budgets. City and regional planning and growth control. « Hide info DYNAMICS OF HUMAN HABITATION 3 Examines the complex interactions between humans and their physical environment. It engages concepts from anthropology, psychology, ecology, ethology, art, architecture, and planning to locate and demonstrate fundamental organizing principles in the human perception and use of space, and its effect on interpersonal relations. « Hide info HISTORY I 3 Introduction to the historic forces that have shaped the man-made environment from ancient civilizations to medieval world. « Hide info WRITING IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 3 Satisfies the junior year writing requirement for Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture majors. « Hide info SITE ENGINEERING 3 Site engineering problems related to general design including: construction processes, road alignment geometry, grading, drainage systems, earthwork, and detailing. Emphasis on construction document preparation. « Hide info INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 3 Introduces landscape architecture by looking at the range of environmental design professions. Looks at contemporary designers and highlights their major contributions. « Hide info COMPUTERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 3 Introduction to applications of computers in environmental design. Computer hardware, peripherals, and programming Languages are reviewed. Focus on site analysis techniques, computer aided design, and site engineering applications. « Hide info CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS 3 Introduction to materials used in landscape construction, their design potential and limitations. Design details and construction methods are discussed. « Hide info GRAPHICS I 3 Introduction to architectural drafting, freehand drawing, orthographic projection, shades and shadows, rendering techniques, and perspective. « Hide info LANDSCAPE PATTERN AND PROCESS 3 Attitudes toward and approaches to understanding land; use of natural factors such as land form, soils, vegetation, climate and hydrology in LandArchnd planning, design, and management; advanced professional land planning techniques, and current environmental issues. « Hide info PLANTS IN THE LANDSCAPE 4 Introduction to 200 basic ornamental plants used in landscape architectural, site planning, naturalistic, highway and other design uses; their identification, features, uses, values, care, propagation, maintenance, and limitations. « Hide info Summary
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