Mission of the Minor in Landscape Architecture
The
Minor in Landscape Studies will focus on the role of
the landscape in the cultural imagination, on its legibility
as a representation of political, social, artistic, and
environmental values, and on its potential to both reflect
and change our ideas about relationships between the
natural world and society. Three departments will be
sponsoring the Minor: the Department of Landscape Architecture
and Regional Planning, School of Design, the Department
of Art History, and the Department of Environmental Studies.
Course
Offerings
The
minor will bring together courses already being taught
in several departments at the University, facilitating
the opportunities to make interdisciplinary connections
between landscape and other areas of study (for example,
history of art, English literature, environmental studies,
geology, etc.). The required courses for the Minor in
Landscape Studies have been continuously taught by faculty
in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture departments
at the School of Design for the last 10 years. The distributional
electives are courses already being offered by several
departments, including English, Art History, Earth and
Environmental Science, and Germanic Studies. The minor
would be open to all undergraduate majors, offering either
a studio or a liberal arts concentration.
A
Freshman Seminar (LARP 111-301), taught by Professor
John Dixon Hunt of the Landscape Architecture faculty,
will introduce the larger undergraduate community to
the culture of landscape.
Academic
Advising
The
director for the Minor in Landscape Architecture is Anita
Berrizbeitia, Associate Professor and Associate Chair
of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the School
of Design, and will be the academic advisor for students
in the Minor in Landscape Studies. Email: berrizbe@design.upenn.edu.
Program of Study
Course
requirement: 6 CU
Students
would need to begin their minor in their sophomore or junior
year.
The
program of study would be:
| Required
Courses: |
|
| LARP 535 Theory I (Case Studies in Landscape Architecture) |
1.0 |
| LARP 540 Theory II (Topics in Landscape Architecture) |
1.0 |
| ARCH 411 (Contemporary Landscape Architecture) |
1.0 |
| LARP 533 Media I (Landscape Drawing)
or |
1.0 |
| ENVS 541 Geographic Information Systems |
|
| Distributional Electives: |
|
| Elective in Arts and Humanities |
1.0 |
| Elective in Earth and Environmental
Sciences |
1.0 |
| Total CU |
6.0 |
For students enrolled in the Major
in Architecture the program of study would be:
| Required
courses: |
|
| LARP 535 Theory I(Case Studies in
Landscape Architecture) |
1.0 |
| ARCH
401 (Studio) |
2.0 |
| ARCH
411(Contemporary Landscape Architecture) |
1.0 |
| Distributional
electives: |
|
| Elective
in Arts and Humanities |
1.0 |
| Elective
in Earth and Environmental Sciences |
1.0 |
| Total CU |
6.0 |
Distributional
electives in Arts and Humanities to be drawn from the
following list:
ANTH
557. The Archaeology of Landscape (Erickson)
ANTH 121. (URBS 101) Origin and Cultures of Cities (Zettler)
ARTH 283. or ARTH 683. The Modern City (Brownlee)
ENGL 584. Environmental Imaginaries
ENGL . Earth Wind and Fire (Stranahan)
FOLK 650. Folklore and Critical Regionalism (Hufford M.)
GRMN 244. (COML 254, URBS 244). Metropolis-Culture of the
City (MacLeod)
GRMN . Goethe and Perception of Landscape (Weissberg and
Hunt)
URBS 206 (CPLN 620, URBS 506). Public Environment of Cities:
An Introduction to the Urban Landscape (Nairn)
Distributional
electives in Earth and Environmental Sciences to be
drawn from the following list:
ENVS
200. Introduction to Environmental Analysis (Giegengack)
ENVS 400. Environmental Seminar
LARP 511. Workshop 1-Field Ecology and Materials (Willig & Falck)
ENVS 301. Environmental Case Studies (Doheny)
ENVS 507. Wetlands (Willig)
ENVS 463. Brownfield Remediation (Keene)
ENVS 541. GIS and Environmental Planning (Tomlin)
ENVS 636. Urban Ecology (Laskowski)
GEOL 103. Disturbances and Disasters (Scatena)
GEOL 511. Soils (Johnson)
These
lists may be subject to revision as alternative or new
courses develop.
