Shaping the Built Environment explores how urban, suburban, and rural environments intersect with natural systems through cultural and biophysical influences.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2025← Landscape Architecture (LANDARC)
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Field-based course on prescribed fire ecology and implementation for wetland, prairie, and savanna fuels, including live fire exercises and PPE training that qualifies students for prescribed fire crews.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Geodesign Methods and Applications explores geodesign framework methods and technologies, emphasizing collaboration among design, science, and community stakeholders through exercises in built and natural environments.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026#4 ·ENVIRST/LANDARC/SOILSCI 695
Applications of Geographic Information Systems in Natural Resources
3 creditsApplications of Geographic Information Systems in Natural Resources covers modern GIS desktop and web-based workflows, analyses, and visualizations for environmental planning, featuring guest lectures from professionals.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026#5 ·LANDARC 375
Special Topics
1–4 creditsSpecial Topics course exploring specific issues or problems in landscape architecture, with varying topics and faculty.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to landscape architecture design studio focusing on three-dimensional design problems in urban and natural environments through studio exercises.
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Past student reviews · James Steiner
Students received brutally honest feedback on their projects, creating a demanding but supportive atmosphere.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Making the American Landscape traces the history and evolution of the American cultural landscape from precolonial times to present.
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026Introduces the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies for students interested in careers in museums, galleries, historical societies, historic preservation, and academia.
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Past student reviews · Ann Smart Martin
Grading standards were inconsistent, with some assignments described as harshly graded while others were not.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Wetlands Ecology covers types, origins, structure, physical/biological values, dynamics, and protection, management, and restoration of wetlands.
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Past student reviews · David Bart
Students reported insufficient weekly time to complete textbook readings, watch pre-class lectures, and handle numerous end-of-semester assignments.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Critical and historical analysis of the design of outdoor space, focusing on the history of landscape architecture in the United States.
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Past student reviews · Samuel Dennis
The grade consisted of five tests and easy in-class components, with no outside-of-class work required. The reviewer predicted that memorizing slide content the day before tests would result in an easy A.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Survey of landscape architecture covering design principles, American history, and processes for creating site-sensitive designs in built and natural environments.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Doug Hadley
The workload included weekly lectures, readings, journals, discussions, projects, and quizzes, with no exams.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to environmental remote sensing covering aerial photography, satellite imagery, electromagnetic radiation, data types, interpretation, analysis, mapping, and applications.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026