Spring 2027

Critical Inquiry Into Landscape Design Expression

Critical inquiry into landscape design expression focusing on normative design theory, historical and contemporary aesthetics, and critical theory within landscape architecture typologies.

no offering record for this termCredits unavailable
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

1 / 2

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2013: 3.78 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2017: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain and evaluate how groups of people (academics, intellectuals, critics, designers, etc.) create, define, and defend normative positions.

  • Explain how normative theories in landscape architecture have changed through time.

  • Explain how values are expressed in physical form in the landscape.

  • Defend a normative position with regard to a landscape project.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

↗
average GPA
letter grades
A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

All recorded terms · compare terms & instructors

Prerequisites

Course map

Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
LANDARC 720

This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.

Prerequisite text tree
  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

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

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

Schedule loads here as you scroll.

SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist

Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections.

Meeting source records

No records available.

Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Fall 2013: 3.78 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2017: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

No workload feedback recorded.

Topics

  • Normative design theory and aesthetic expression
  • Critical theory and landscape architecture typology

Skills

  • Evaluate how groups create, define, and defend normative positions.
  • Explain the historical evolution of normative theories in landscape architecture.
  • Explain how values are expressed in physical landscape form.
  • Defend a normative position regarding a landscape project.

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2017— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor

Grade distribution · % of letter grades

A
AB
B
BC
C
D
F

Grades over time

Through Fall 2017

More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.

Download part 1
Selected offering source records

No offering records for the selected term.

Raw records 
[]
Rate My Professors

Student reviews

Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

Read original reviews

No records available.

Madgrades

Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

Explore recorded grades
Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

View the dataset on Hugging Face
Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
Download part 1
Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

Download part 1
Model & dataset provenance 
{
  "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
  "model_revision": "1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0",
  "task_version": "17",
  "output_id": "524bf82d727407f45cb80694af7a12a6dfa662ee2a722bef0732e0056fac4ed2",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
  "dataset_revision": "fc1811fa52e581ea57a35c0cf3343f8740a8ffbf",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-14 17:50:09.728220+00:00"
}