| Master of Landscape Architecture
Course Descriptions
| Required Landscape Architecture
Courses: |
| LArch 410 |
INTERACTIVE
DIGITAL DESIGN (3)
A student-centered paperless interactive digital
design studio. |
| LArch
501 |
RESEARCH
AND WRITING IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (3)
Landscape architectural research methods and writing
techniques. |
| LArch 510 |
GRADUATE
SEMINAR IN
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (1) Landscape architectural
theory exploration through reading and
discussions. |
| LArch 520 |
GRADUATE STUDIO I
(4)
Landscape architectural research and design
inquiry. |
| LArch 530 |
GRADUATE STUDIO II
(4)
Landscape architectural research or research and
design inquiry. |
| LArch 540 |
GRADUATE STUDIO
III
(4) Landscape architectural research or research
and design inquiry . |
| LArch 550 |
GRADUATE STUDIO IV (7)
Landscape architectural research or research and
design inquiry. |
| LArch 600 |
THESIS RESEARCH (1-9)
Development of the master work research project
or
thesis. Topic must be original in nature. Theses
shall conform to the academic requirements of the
Graduate School. Projects and theses shall be
developed upon original research and as a means
of
advancing the knowledge of the profession of
landscape architecture. |
| Elective Courses
within the Department of Landscape Architecture:
|
| LArch 500 |
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGIAL CONDITIONS IN
REGIONAL LANDSCAPE (1) landscape architectural
field trips within the Centre Region. |
| LArch 597 |
SPECIAL TOPICS
(1-9) |
| |
Potential Elective Courses
Outside
the Department of Landscape Architecture (minimum of 15
credits required); selections are not limited to the following
possibilities:
|
| Architecture: |
| Arch 453 |
TOPICS IN DIGITAL DESIGN (3) |
| Arch 481 |
DIGITAL DESIGN MEDIA (3) Advanced
course in digital modeling, rendering, animation
and non-linear video for architectural investigations. |
| Arch 510 |
URBAN DESIGN POLICY AND
IMPLEMENTATION (3) Advanced research seminar using
comparative case studies. Prerequisites: Arch 515,
517. |
| Arch 532 |
COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING PROCESS STUDIO
(6-12) Field cast studies in analysis forecasting
and projections of urban physical design elements.
Preparations of comprehensive plan regulations
and
implementation. |
| Arch 530 |
ARCHITECTURE I (6-12) Problems in
architectural planning and design programming
and/or implementation methodologies and
applications for various environmental design
scales. Prerequisites: Arch 430 or graduate
standing. |
| Arch 591 |
ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH (2-12) Guided
research projects.
|
|
| Civil
Engineering: |
| CE 511 |
TECHNIQUES OF TRANSPORTATION
ANALYSIS (2-4) Transportation functions, travel
patterns, basic analytical methods in the planning
content. Prerequisites: 3 credits of computer
science. |
| CE 523 |
URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, TECHNOLOGY,
POLICY, AND ADMINISTRATION (2-4) Characteristics
of urban areas, the urban transportation planning
process, present and future urban transportation
systems, urban transportation policy and
administration. Prerequisite: CE 221.
|
|
Computer
Science:
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Any sequence of 400 and 500-level
courses in the student's area of primary interest
and with the concurrence of the department's
graduate
faculty. |
|
| Forestry: |
| For 401 |
URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT (3)
The urban ecosystem and vegetation management.
|
| For 455 |
REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL DATA HANDLING
(3) Remote sensing systems, with emphasis on application
to forest ecosystem analysis. |
| For 466 |
FOREST RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (3) Optimum use
of forest's tangible and intangible resources by
application of financial and adminstrative management
principles and management science techniques. |
| For 470 |
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT (3) Management of wild
land watersheds for control of the amount and timing
of water yeild, water quality, erosion, and sedimentation. |
| For 508 |
FOREST ECOLOGY (3) The forest ecosystem
variations in space and time, classification,
ordination techniques, dynamic aspects such as
energy flow and nutrient cycling. |
| For 525 |
FOREST LAND USE (3) Concepts of supply and
demand for forest lands and their allocation to
alternative uses. Prerequisites: For 466 or Geog
405 and 3 credits in Economics. |
| For 555 |
MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING (3) Computer
analysis of data from non-imaging remote sensors
as applied to mapping of natural resources and
land use. Prerequisites: CompSci 101, For 455.
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|
| Geology: |
| |
Any sequence of 400 or 500 level
courses in the student's area of primary interest
and with the approval of the department's graduate
faculty. | |
| Geography: |
| Geog 401 |
HISTORICAL
GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA (3) Exploration, settlement,
and chaning patterns of human occupance from
the seventeenth century to the 1930's.
|
| Geog 404 |
THE AMERICAN SCENE
PART II (3) How American created a modern national
landscape while spreading their national domain
from the Appalachians to the Pacific. |
| Geog 434 |
REGIONAL PHYSIOGRAPHY
(3) Landform regions; geographic distribution,
origin, relationships to human activity, emphasis
on the Unied States and Canada. Practicum includes
field work and map interpretation. |
| Geog 458 |
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
SYSTEMS (3) Application of GIS tools with the objective
of developing sufficient competence to permit use
of these techniques in applied settings. |
| Geog 504 |
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
SEMINAR (3-12) The examination of current problems
and theories in physical geography through
critical discussions of the literature and
original student research. |
| Geog 508 |
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
SEMINAR (3-6) The exploration of current problems
and theory in cultural geography through critical
discussion of the literature and original student
research.
|
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Statistics:
|
| Stat 524 |
ECOMETRICS (3) Stochastic models and statistical
methods in ecological problems. |
| Stat 548 |
ENVIRONMENTRICS (3) |
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