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Department of Landscape Architecture

101 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
611 East Lorado Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-0176
Fax: (217) 244-4568
URL: www.landarch.uiuc.edu

The Department of Landscape Architecture offers a four-year undergraduate curriculum, leading to the professional degree of Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. The degree is accredited by the American Society of Landscape Architects.

The curriculum is a balanced program of technical, design, and general education courses that equips the student with the necessary skills for entry-level professional practice in private offices or public agencies. Program requirements include design studio courses and classes in plants and planting design, engineering, site construction, communication tec hniques, computer-aided design, history, and theory. The curriculum includes a minimum of 15 hours of credit in supporting electives that are taken in related art and science courses. A total of 128 semester hours of credit are required for graduation.

A student must have and maintain a minimum 2.5 cumulative University of Illinois grade point average to continue beyond the sophomore-level year. Transfer applicants must have completed 30 or more semester hours of undergraduate course work with an earned GPA of at least 2.75 (A = 4.0) including prerequisite credits in Composition I, physical geography, plant biology, and trigonometry.

The department's administrative office, upper-level studios, faculty offices, and classrooms are located in Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. The sophomore studio and departmental library are located in Mumford Hall.

CURRICULUM IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

For the Degree of Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

First year

< pre > HOURS FIRST SEMESTER 2 L A 101-Introduction to Landscape Architecture 6 General education electivesl 4 GEOG 103-Earth's Physical Systems2 4 RHET 105 or 108-Composition I 16 Total HOURS SECOND SEMESTER 3 L A 170, L A 215, or L A 218 3 PLBIO 102-Plants, Environment, and Man2 2-5 MATH 114 or 116-Trigonometry 6 General education electives 14-17 Total

Second year 

HOURS     FIRST SEMESTER
5     L A 133-Basic Landscape Design
3     L A 150-Introduction to Environmental Factors in Design
3     L A 180-Design Communications, I
3     U P 101-Planning of Cities and Regions
3     Supporting elective3
17     Total
HOURS     SECOND SEMESTER
5     L A 134-Site Design
3     L A 142-Landform Design and Construction
3     L A 181-Design Communications, II (Advanced Composition)
3     Quantitative reasoning (see approved list)
3     Supporting elective3
17     Total

Third year 

HOURS     FIRST SEMESTER
5     L A 235-Recreation and Community Design
4     L A 243-Site Engineering
3     NRES 253-Identification and Use of Woody Ornamentals, I
3     L A 214-History of Landscape Architecture
15     Total

HOURS     SECOND SEMESTER
5     L A 236-Design Workshops, I
4     L A 244-Landscape Construction
3     NRES 254-Identification and Use of Woody Ornamentals, II
3     Supporting elective3
15     Total

Fourth year 

HOURS     FIRST SEMESTER
5     L A 337-Regional Landscape Design
3     L A 252-Planting Design, I
2     L A 246-Professional Practice
3     Supporting elective3
4     Elective
17     Total
HOURS     SECOND SEMESTER
3     L A 253-Planting Design, II
5     L A 338-Design Workshops, II
3     Supporting elective3
3-6     Elective
14-17     Total

1. A minimum of six credit hours of approved general education electives is required in each of the areas of humanities and th e arts, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and technology, and Western and non-Western cultural studies for a minimum of 18 credit hours (see college-approved general education distribution list).

2. PLBIO 102 and GEOG 103 fulfill the natural sciences and technology general education requirement for this curriculum.

3. A minimum of 15 credit hours of professionally related courses selected from the department's recommended list of supporting electives is required, with a minimum of three credit hours in each of the categories of history, communications, techniques, and environment.

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