Department of Landscape Architecture

www.landarch.uiuc.edu

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

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 Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board (LAAB).

The curriculum is a balanced program of technical, design, and general education courses that equips prepares 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 techniques, 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 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, trigonometry, and quantitative reasoning.

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

Hours	First Semester
2	LA 101—Intro to Landscape Architecture
4	GEOG 103—Earth’s Physical Systems¹ or GEOL 101—Intro to Physical Geology¹
4	RHET 105—College Composition or RHET 108—Principles of Composition (Composition I)
3	IB 102, 103 or 105—Plant/Environ. Biology¹
3	General education electives²
16	Total

Hours	Second Semester
3	Social/Cultural Factors in Design Elective³
5	MATH 16—Algebra and Trigonometry or elective
6	General Education Elective¹
3	Quantitative Reasoning I
17	Total

Second year

Hours	First Semester
5	LA 233—Foundation Design Studio
3	LA 250—Environmental Site Analysis
3	LA 280—Design Communications
3	UP 101—Planning of Cities and Regions
3	Supporting elective⁴
17	Total

Hours	Second Semester
5	LA 234—Site Design Studio
3	LA 241—Landform Design & Construction
3	LA 281—Design Communications 2 (Advanced Composition)
3	General education elective
3	Supporting elective⁴
17	Total

Third year

Hours	First Semester
5	LA 335—Community & Open Space Studio
4	LA 342—Site Engineering
3	HORT 301—Woody Landscape Plants I
3	LA 314—History of World Landscapes
15	Total

Hours	Second Semester
5	LA 336—Design Workshop Studio 1
4	LA 343—Landscape Construction
3	HORT 302—Woody Landscape Plants II
3	Supporting elective⁴
15	Total

Fourth year

Hours	First Semester
5	LA 437—Regional Design Studio
3	LA 452—Natural Precedent in Planting
2	LA 346—Professonal Practice
3	Supporting elective⁴
3	Quantitative Reasoning II
16	Total

Hours	Second Semester
3	LA 453—Cultural Precedent in Planting
5	LA 438—Design Workshop Studio 2
3	Supporting elective⁴
4	Elective
15	Total

1. IB 102, 103, or 105 and GEOG 103/GEOL 101 fulfill the natural sciences and technology general education requirement for this curriculum.

2.General Education: See current University of Illinois General Education requirements. Foreign Language Requirement 0 - 12 hours: Students entering the University of Illinois as freshmen in fall 2000 or later need to complete the foreign language requirement in order to graduate. To satisfy this requirement, students must complete a third semester level college foreign language course. This requirement may also be satisfied by three years of the same foreign language in high school. Students entering the University of Illinois without three years of the same foreign language in high school must take a foreign language placement test to determine the courses in which to enroll. Beginning freshman Fall 2002 and later must complete Quantitative Reasoning I and II.

3. Social/Cultural factors elective course options are LA 215, LA 218, LA 222, LA 242, LA 270, OR LA 470.

4. 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.