Fall 2026

Survey of Landscape Architecture Design

Survey of landscape architecture design principles, history, and site design processes.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Carl ReedDanny SchapiroMarco Marquez +1 more

Summary

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Historical reviews of Doug Hadley: The workload is heavy, involving weekly lectures, readings, journals, discussions, projects, and quizzes, which one student found to be the most time-consuming class of the semester.

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews for Doug Hadley describe the course as having an incredible amount of busy work, requiring more time than other classes. The workload includes lectures, readings, journals, discussions, projects, and weekly quizzes, despite the absence of exams. One reviewer found the assignments useless and time-consuming.

DOUGLAS HADLEY is recorded teaching in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 011Online Only155 / 2403
DIS 312Classroom Instruction15 / 200
DIS 313Classroom Instruction9 / 200
DIS 314Classroom Instruction12 / 200
DIS 316Classroom Instruction17 / 200
DIS 317Classroom Instruction12 / 200
DIS 311Online Only90 / 1003

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews under Doug Hadley describe the course as having an excessive amount of busy work and useless assignments that require more time than other classes, despite lacking exams.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 82.8% A/AB (n=87 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.53 GPA, 79.4% A/AB (n=136 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.63 GPA, 80.3% A/AB (n=76 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Doug Hadley: The workload is heavy, involving weekly lectures, readings, journals, discussions, projects, and quizzes, which one student found to be the most time-consuming class of the semester.

Students may find the volume of assignments frustrating and the content useless, leading to a low quality rating for the historical instructor's section.

Topics

  • Landscape planning and management
  • History of landscape architecture in America
  • Built and natural environments

Skills

  • Design basics
  • Site and context-sensitive design

Grades

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Fall 2026 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.16 GPA average error.

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About this comparison

1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
LANDARC 250 · Fall 2026

Survey of Landscape Architecture Design

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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Model & dataset provenance
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