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This certificate links the disciplines of history and design and is unique in the United States. The curriculum emphasizes landscape design history, promotes research in the discipline, and raises and addresses issues of public policy involving the land. The curriculum recognizes the interrelationship of form, culture, and ideas, and examines how and why people structure their external environments. It prepares students to work in the areas of landscape design history, preservation, and the environment at the community, state, and national levels. Students generally complete the Certificate in Landscape Design History on a part-time basis in 2 to 5 years.
Landscape Design History Courses and Certificate Curriculum
- Landscape History survey course
- HT038 Theories of Landscape Design
- Research Methods course
- 1 course in historic preservation or 2 half semester courses
- History courses (any combination of courses totaling 2 full semesters of coursework)
- Skill Development course in either:
- TM021 Landscape Construction, Methods and Materials
- TM045 Site Engineering
- Horticulture (1 full semester course or 2 half semester courses)
- Student's choice (1 full semester course in combination with 1 half semester course or 3 half semester courses)
- LAC301 Independent Project Studio focusing on landscape design history
- SEM007 Design & Digital Media