Spring 2027

Survey of Landscape Architecture Design

Survey of landscape architecture covering design principles, American history, and processes for creating site-sensitive designs in built and natural environments.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Carl Reed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Doug Hadley

The workload included weekly lectures, readings, journals, discussions, projects, and quizzes, with no exams.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain the many facets of Landscape Architecture, and the influence of landscape design on human health, safety, and welfare, and on both cultural and natural ecosystems.

  • Identify the basic building blocks of design to understand how and why designed spaces are put together and be able to demonstrate the use of a landscape design process to create more sustainable designs.

  • Identify and describe influential people, organizations, and ideas that have influenced the profession in the past and those that are contributing to it today.

  • Summarize the profession of landscape architecture and their professional ethics and social and environmental responsibilities.

  • Identify and compare the issues affecting our natural and cultural environments, such as climate change, and how landscape architecture addresses these concerns.

  • Evaluate and analyze landscapes around us for enjoyment and an improved understanding of spatial awareness.

  • Illustrate basic site design concepts and analysis data.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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LANDARC 250 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

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.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 004Online Only0 / 1000
DIS 304Online Only0 / 650
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Doug Hadley

Students found the course demanding, noting a significant time commitment relative to other classes.

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

Past student reviews · Doug Hadley

The workload included weekly lectures, readings, journals, discussions, projects, and quizzes, with no exams.

Past student reviews · Doug Hadley

One student felt the assignments were useless and that the class required excessive time.

Topics

  • Landscape and environmental design principles
  • History and key figures in American landscape architecture
  • Environmental issues including climate change and professional responses
  • Professional ethics and social/environmental responsibilities

Skills

  • Landscape design processes for creating site and context-sensitive designs
  • Identification of basic design building blocks and application of design processes for sustainability
  • Explanation of landscape architecture's influence on health, safety, welfare, and ecosystems

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 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.

4 earlier forecasts · 0.09 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 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 · Spring 2027

Survey of Landscape Architecture Design

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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