Spring 2027

Special Topics

Special Topics: Exploration of special issues or problems in landscape architecture, focusing on interdisciplinary problem-solving and design theory application.

offering recorded1–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 David Bart3.4/5Evelyn Howell3.1/5

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to explore ideas and synthesize information, both independently and in collaboration with interdisciplinary team members to identify and solve complicated landscape and planning problems.

  • Understand, analyze, and apply design and planning theories and principles to urban and rural landscapes to benefit human living conditions.

  • Integrate humanistic, scientific, legal, political, economic, social, ecological, and technological dimensions in solving novel design and planning problems concerning the betterment of rural and urban natural and cultural landscapes.

  • Demonstrate advanced critical thinking and the ability to explore ideas in depth and synthesize information with a high degree of competence.

  • Demonstrate an advanced understanding of landscape spaces, functions, and dynamics, as well as interactions between people and the built and natural environment.

  • Engage critically with the scholarship and theory of landscape architecture.

Source: UW Guide

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LANDARC 590

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Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 002Online Only0 / 150
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Exploration of special issues or problems in landscape architecture.

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Topics

  • Special issues or problems in landscape architecture
  • Design and planning theories for urban and rural landscapes
  • Landscape spaces, functions, dynamics, and human-environment interactions

Skills

  • Critical thinking and synthesis of information to solve landscape and planning problems
  • Applying design and planning theories to urban and rural landscapes
  • Integrating multidimensional factors in design and planning

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LANDARC 590 · Spring 2027

Special Topics

Recorded 2026-10-14
LANDARC 590 · Spring 2027

Plants in the Sustainable City

Recorded 2026-10-14
LANDARC 590 · Spring 2027

Theories of Landscape Colloqui

Recorded 2026-10-14
LANDARC 590 · Spring 2027

Eco Res Implementation

Recorded 2026-10-14
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