Through the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Landscape Architecture is offering the following undergraduate Minor in Landscape Studies, open only to students in undergraduate majors in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Here are some suggestions of books that all address, in different ways, the central concerns of the curriculum, with particular emphasis upon the quartet of topics in our "Inquiries in process"—design, nature, culture, history.
The School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania was started in 1890 with programs in architecture and fine arts (including music and art history). Landscape architecture was first introduced as a subject in 1914–15 through a series of lectures by George Bernap, landscape architect for the United States Capitol.