Recommended Academic Plan for Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (LARCH at University Park only)
Effective Fall 2011
|
Semester 1 |
Credits |
Semester 2 |
Credits |
|
LARCH 151 Intro to Visualization |
3 |
LARCH 112 Intro to Design |
3 |
|
LARCH 121S First Year Seminar |
1 |
LARCH 060 History of Landscape Architecture |
3 |
|
English 015 or 030 (GWS) Composition/Honors Composition |
3 |
MATH 26 (or higher) Plane Trigonometry |
3 |
|
GEOG 020 (GS; US; IL) Intro Human Geography or GEOG 030 (GS; IL) Sustainability |
3 |
Art or Art/Arch History (GA)(IL) |
3 |
|
BIOL 127 (GN) Intro to Plant Biology or 011 and 012 (GN) Intro to Biology |
3 |
Soils 101 (GN) Intro to Soils AND [Earth 100 Env. Earth, GEOG 115 (GN) Landforms of the World, or GEOSC 010 (GN) National Parks] |
3 |
|
Soils 101 (GN) Intro to Soils AND [Earth 100 Env. Earth, Geog 115 Landforms of the World, or GEOSC 010 (GN) National Parks] |
3 |
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|
Total Credits: |
16 |
Total Credits: |
|
|
Semester 3 |
Credits |
Semester 4 |
Credits |
|
LARCH 211 Design and Theory I |
4 |
LARCH 065 Built Environ. & Culture |
3 |
|
LARCH 221 Seminar |
1 |
LARCH 212 Design and Theory II |
4 |
|
LARCH 241 Ecology |
3 |
LARCH 222 Seminar |
1 |
|
LARCH 251 Visualization I |
3 |
LARCH 231 Intro to Design Implementation |
3 |
|
CAS 100 (GWS) Effective Speech |
3 |
LARCH 272 Regional Field Trip |
1 |
|
English 202 (GWS) Effective Writing |
3 |
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|
Total Credits: |
14 |
Total Credits: |
15 |
|
Semester 5 |
Credits |
Semester 6 |
Credits |
|
LARCH 311 Design and Theory III |
4 |
LARCH 312 Design and Theory IV |
4 |
|
LARCH 321 Seminar |
1 |
LARCH 322 Seminar |
1 |
|
LARCH 331 Design Implementation I |
3 |
LARCH 332 Design Implementation II |
3 |
|
LARCH 341 Plants, People, Place |
3 |
LARCH 361W Historic Issues |
3 |
|
Humanities (GH) Geog 122 or Hist 21 |
3 |
Art/Arch History (GA) |
3 |
|
Total Credits: |
14 |
Total Credits: |
14 |
|
Semester 7 |
Credits |
Semester 8—STUDY ABROAD |
Credits |
|
LARCH 414 Design and Theory V |
5 |
LARCH 499A Design and Theory Seminar |
1 |
|
LARCH 431 Design Implementation III |
3 |
LARCH 499B Design and Theory VI |
4 |
|
LARCH 382 Prof. Practice |
3 |
LARCH 499D Int’l. Special Topics (GA) |
4 |
|
Quantification (GQ) |
3 | ||
|
Elective |
3 |
Foreign language (Recommended) or Elective |
3 |
|
Total Credits: |
17 |
Total Credits: |
12 |
|
Semester 9 |
Credits |
Semester 10 |
Credits |
|
LARCH 414 Design and Theory V |
5 |
LARCH 414 Design and Theory V |
5 |
|
Elective (Dept. Recomm.) |
3 |
LARCH 424 Seminar |
3 |
|
Health and Physical Activity (GHA) |
3 |
Humanities (GH) |
3 |
|
Social/Behavioral Sciences (GS) (GEOG 020, 030, 120, 130 or PHIL 10, 13, 118) |
3 |
Elective |
3 |
|
Elective |
3 |
Elective |
3 |
|
Total Credits: |
17 |
Total Credits: |
17 |
- Bold type indicates courses requiring a quality grade of C or better.
- Italics indicate courses that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
- GWS, GHA, GQ, GN, GA, GH, and GS are codes used to identify General Education requirements.
- US, IL, and US;IL are codes used to designate courses that satisfy University United States/International Cultures requirements.
- W is the code used to designate courses that satisfy University Writing Across the Curriculum requirement.
Program Notes:
Change of Major Application: A minimum grade point average of 2.0 and an essay submission to be evaluated. Students will be admitted in the fall semester only.
Submission Requirements: How to Apply
