Program Overview
The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture is an eight-year professional degree program that equips students with comprehensive design skills, professional knowledge, and real-world experience. Through studio-based learning and collaboration with industry experts, students develop creative solutions for shaping built environments and fostering sustainability. Graduates enter a high-demand field with diverse career opportunities working alongside allied professionals.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture is a four-year professional degree program that prepares students to become successful, licensed landscape architects. The robust, studio-based curriculum is taught by award-winning faculty and provides a comprehensive understanding of professional practice, design approaches, and creative problem-solving. Students benefit from access to diverse professional, entrepreneurial, and technological resources, as well as opportunities to engage with licensed landscape architects and industry leaders to work collaboratively on real-world projects that shape the local built environment.
Outline:
First Year
- Foundation Studio A
- Foundation Studio B
- Design and the Environment A
- Design and the Environment B
- First-Year Composition
- Second Language Semester 1
- Introduction to the General Education Experience (Entry Course)
Second Year
- Landscape Architecture Intro Studio
- Digital Media Skills and Techniques
- First-Year Composition II
- Modeling with Algebraic and Trigonometric Functions
- Second Language Semester 2
Third Year
- Design Studio I
- Landscape Construction
- GE Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
- GE Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
Fourth Year
- Design Studio II
- History and Theory of Landscape Architecture
- Site Engineering
- GE Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
Fifth Year
- Design Studio III
- Plant Materials
- Introduction to GIS for Landscape Architecture and Planning
- GE Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
Sixth Year
- Design Studio IV
- Landscape Ecology
- GE Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
- GE Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
Seventh Year
- Design Studio V
- Planting Design
- Contemporary Landscape Architecture
- GE Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
Eighth Year
- Design Studio VI - Capstone
- Professional Practice
- Working Drawings
- General Education Portfolio (Exit Course)
Careers:
Graduates look forward to careers working with allied professionals including architects, ecologists and biologists, historians and anthropologists, civil and structural engineers, and urban planners.
Other:
Demand for trained landscape architects is high and growing in Arizona and the nation.
