Landscape Architecture (BLA)

Program Educational Goals:

Advocacy: Students will be able to articulate personal values and ethics, relate to evidence-based facts, and persuade and educate others in the practice of sustainable landscapes.
Oral Communication: Students will be able to clearly convey information and ideas through speech to a variety of individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
Written Communication: Students will be able to develop and express ideas in writing in many genres and styles. This includes working with many different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images.
Design Skills: Students will be able to demonstrate thoughtful, creative, and imaginative learning to craft intentional and unique solutions to a problem using high-quality craftsmanship.
Clarity of Concept: Students will be able to articulate big ideas in simple terms through various stages of design from start to finish and describe the process that stimulated the idea. The overall concept is recognizable in multiple iterations of design through process.
Creative Problem Solving Outcome: Students will be able to use divergence and convergence in each step of the creative problem-solving process including locating a challenge or problem, gathering data, clarifying the problem, generating alternatives, recommending appropriate solutions and developing a plan of action for implementation.

Four Year Plan

Please refer to the Four-Year Plan for departmental recommended path toward graduation.

University Requirements:

ENGL 110 - First-Year Writing (C- minimum)
First Year Seminar (FYS) (0-4 credits)
Discovery Learning Experience (DLE) (three credits)
Multicultural Requirement (three credits)
University Breadth Requirements (C- minimum):
- Creative Arts and Humanities (three credits)
- History and Cultural Change (three credits)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (three credits)
- Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology (three credits)
Capstone Experience

Major Requirements:

A minimum grade of C- is required for all LARC and PLSC courses used to satisfy requirements.

Mathematics:

One of the following:

MATH 115 - Pre-Calculus Credit(s): 3
MATH 117 - Pre-Calculus for Scientists and Engineers Credit(s): 4
MATH 221 - Calculus I Credit(s): 3
MATH 231 - Integrated Calculus IA Credit(s): 4
MATH 241 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus A Credit(s): 4 (recommended)

Lab Science:

One of the following (four credits):

BISC 104 - Principles of Biology with Laboratory Credit(s): 4
BISC 207 - Introductory Biology I Credit(s): 4
CHEM 101 - General Chemistry Credit(s): 3
and
CHEM 131 - General Chemistry Laboratory Credit(s): 1
CHEM 103 - General Chemistry Credit(s): 3
and
CHEM 133 - General Chemistry Laboratory Credit(s): 1
GEOL 105 - Geological Hazards and Their Human Impact Credit(s): 3
and
GEOL 115 - Geological Hazards Laboratory Credit(s): 1
GEOL 107 - Geology of Dynamic Earth Credit(s): 4
PHYS 201 - Introductory Physics I Credit(s): 3
and
PHYS 221 - Introductory Physics Laboratory I Credit(s): 1
PHYS 207 - Fundamentals of Physics I Credit(s): 3
and
PHYS 227 - Fundamentals of Physics Laboratory I Credit(s): 1
PLSC 101 - Botany I Credit(s): 3
and
PLSC 104 - Botany 1 Laboratory Credit(s): 1

Oral Communication:

One of the following:

COMM 212 - Public Speaking & Professional Presentation Credit(s): 3
or
THEA 204 - Introduction to Voice and Speech Credit(s): 3

One of the following from either list:

Leadership:

HDFS 490 - Community Empowerment through Entrepreneurship Credit(s): 3
LEAD 100 - Leadership, Integrity and Change Credit(s): 3
LEAD 200 - The Leadership Challenge Credit(s): 3
LEAD 300 - Leadership, Creativity, and Innovation Credit(s): 3

Public Policy:

APEC 100 - Sustainable Development Credit(s): 3
GEOG 449 - Environment and Society Credit(s): 3
PHIL 448 - Environmental Ethics Credit(s): 3
POSC 220 - Introduction to Public Policy Credit(s): 3
UAPP 110 - Changing the World and Public Policy Credit(s): 3
UAPP 225 - Crafting Public Policy Credit(s): 3
UAPP 429 - Historic Preservation Theory and Practice Credit(s): 3

Electives:

After required courses are completed, sufficient courses must be taken to meet the minimum credits required for the degree. Only four credits of HBNS 120 activity or four credits of performing music credit may be counted toward the degree.

Landscape Architecture (BLA)

Program Educational Goals:

Four Year Plan

University Requirements:

Major Requirements:

Mathematics:

Lab Science:

Oral Communication:

Group I - Planning and Design:

One of the following:

Group II - Plants and Ecosystems:

Group III - Leading the Profession:

One of the following from either list:

Leadership:

Public Policy:

Electives:

Credits to Total a Minimum of 124

Last Revised for 2023-2024 Academic Year