Department of Landscape Architecture
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 prepare 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, design communication, 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) |
| 5 | MATH 016—Algebra and Trigonometry |
| 15 | Total |
| Hours | Second Semester |
|---|---|
| 3 | Social/Cultural Factors in Design Elective3 |
| 3 | IB 102, 103 or 105—Plant/Environmental Biology |
| 6 | General Education Elective2 |
| 3 | Quantitative Reasoning I |
| 1 | Elective (Discovery Course or other) |
| 16 | Total |
Second year
| Hours | First Semester |
|---|---|
| 5 | LA 233—Foundation Design Studio |
| 3 | LA 250—Environmental Site Analysis |
| 3 | LA 280—Design Communications I |
| 3 | UP 101—Planning of Cities and Regions |
| 3 | General Education Elective |
| 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 | LA 314—History of World Landscapes |
| 3 | General Education Elective |
| 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 | Supporting Elective4 |
| 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—Professional 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 |
| 6 | Supporting electives4 |
| 3 | Elective |
| 17 | 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.
3. Social/Cultural factors elective course options are LA 215, LA 218, LA 220, LA 222, LA 242, LA 270, and 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.