Courses of Study 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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JWST—Jewish Studies |
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KHMER—Khmer |
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KHMER 1121 - Elementary Khmer I
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: for beginners or those placed in course by examination.
H. Phan.
Gives a thorough grounding in speaking and reading.
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KHMER 1122 - Elementary Khmer II
Fall or spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KHMER 1121 ; for beginners or those placed in course by examination.
H. Phan.
Gives a thorough grounding in speaking and reading.
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KHMER 2201 - Intermediate Khmer Reading I
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KHMER 1122 .
H. Phan.
Continuing instruction in spoken and written Khmer. Intermediate level of reading Khmer.
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KHMER 2202 - Intermediate Khmer Reading II
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall or spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KHMER 2201 .
H. Phan.
Continuing instruction in spoken and written Khmer. Intermediate level of reading Khmer.
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KHMER 2203 - Intermediate Khmer Composition and Conversation I
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KHMER 1122 .
H. Phan.
Intermediate Composition and Conversation will give a thorough grounding in language skills in two main areas: writing and speaking. The writing section introduces students to upper-level complex sentence structures and rigorously engages students in upper-level conversation.
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KHMER 2204 - Intermediate Khmer Composition and Conversation II
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall or spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KHMER 2203 .
H. Phan.
Intermediate Composition and Conversation will give a thorough grounding in language skills in two main areas: writing and speaking. The writing section introduces students to upper-level complex sentence structures and rigorously engages students in upper-level conversation.
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KHMER 3301 - Advanced Khmer I
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KHMER 2202 or equivalent.
H. Phan.
Continuing instruction in spoken and written Khmer; emphasis on enlarging vocabulary, increasing reading speed, and reading various genres and styles of prose.
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KHMER 3302 - Advanced Khmer II
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall or spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KHMER 3301 .
H. Phan.
Continuing instruction in spoken and written Khmer; emphasis on enlarging vocabulary, increasing reading speed, and reading various genres and styles of prose.
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KHMER 4431 - Directed Study
Fall. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.
Permission of instructor required.
H. Phan.
Intended for advanced language study.
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KHMER 4432 - Directed Study
Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.
Permission of instructor required.
H. Phan.
Intended for advanced language study.
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KOREA—Korean |
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KOREA 1101 - Elementary Korean I
Fall. 6 credits. Letter grades only.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both KOREA 1101 and KOREA 1109 .
M. Song.
Covers basics of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Introduces Hangul writing system and grammar.
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KOREA 1102 - Elementary Korean II
Spring. 6 credits. Letter grades only.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both KOREA 1102 and KOREA 1110 .
Prerequisite: KOREA 1101 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/).
M. Song.
Continuation of KOREA 1101 , further covers basics of speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
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KOREA 1109 - Elementary Korean Reading and Writing I
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both KOREA 1101 and KOREA 1109.
Prerequisite: online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/) is required.
M. Song.
For Korean heritage students who have spoken some Korean in the home, but whose reading and writing skills are limited.
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KOREA 1110 - Elementary Korean Reading and Writing II
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both KOREA 1102 and 1110.
Prerequisite: KOREA 1109 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/).
M. Song.
Continuation of KOREA 1109 . For Korean heritage students who have spoken some Korean in the home, but whose reading and writing skills are limited.
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KOREA 2201 - Intermediate Korean I
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KOREA 1102 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/).
K. Park.
For students who have learned basic Korean skills and would like to develop higher skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing that are grammatically accurate and pragmatically appropriate. Idiomatic expressions will be introduced and various authentic materials are integrated in this course to expose students to different aspects of Korean culture.
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KOREA 2202 - Intermediate Korean II
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KOREA 2201 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/).
K. Park.
For students who have learned basic Korean skills and would like to develop higher skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing that are grammatically accurate and pragmatically appropriate. Idiomatic expressions will be introduced and various authentic materials are integrated in this course to expose students to different aspects of Korean culture.
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KOREA 2209 - Intermediate Korean Reading and Writing I
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KOREA 1110 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu).
K. Park.
For students with Intermediate –high level of listening and speaking, intermediate-low level of reading and writing. Students will continue to build the four language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing at the advanced level. Students will review and strengthen their grasp of basic areas of grammar, build vocabulary through various readings, idiomatic expressions, and Chinese characters. Along with class discussion, reading and writing skills will be improved. Extra authentic materials will be covered.
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KOREA 2210 - Intermediate Korean Reading and Writing II
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KOREA 2209 , or online placement test required (collt.lrc.cornell.edu).
K. Park.
For students with Intermediate –high level of listening and speaking, intermediate-low level of reading and writing. Students will continue to build the four language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing at the advanced level. Students will review and strengthen their grasp of basic areas of grammar, build vocabulary through various readings, idiomatic expressions, and Chinese characters. Along with class discussion, reading and writing skills will be improved. Extra authentic materials will be covered.
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KOREA 3301 - High Intermediate Korean I
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KOREA 2202 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/).
K. Park.
Continue to build the four language skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing at the advanced intermediate level.
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KOREA 3302 - High Intermediate Korean II
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite:KOREA 3301 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/).
K. Park.
Continue to build the four language skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing at the advanced intermediate level.
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KOREA 4401 - Advanced Korean I
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KOREA 2210 or KOREA 3302 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/).
M. Song.
Develops all four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) through discussion and composition at the advanced level.
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KOREA 4402 - Advanced Korean II
(GB) Satisfies Option 1.
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: KOREA 4401 or online placement test (collt.lrc.cornell.edu/).
M. Song.
Continuation of KOREA 4401 . Develops all four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) through discussion and composition at the advanced level.
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KOREA 4430 - [Structure of Korean] (crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 4430 , LING 4430 ) (KCM-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: KOREA 1102 or linguistics course. Next offered 2013-2014. No previous knowledge of Korean required.
J. Whitman.
For description, see LING 4430 .
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KOREA 4431 - Directed Study
Fall. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.
Permission of instructor required.
Staff.
Intended for advanced language study.
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KOREA 4432 - Directed Study
Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Letter grades only.
Permission of instructor required.
Staff.
Intended for advanced language study.
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KRLIT—Korean Literature |
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KRLIT 4432 - [Middle Korean] (crosslisted)
(also LING 4432 ) (LA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: KOREA 2202 or equivalent. Offered alternate years. Next offered 2013-2014.
J. Whitman.
For description, see LING 4432 . (LL)
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KRLIT 4466 - Explorations in Korean Literature
(GB) (LA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
E. Choi.
This is an upper level undergraduate or graduate seminar on a specific topic in Korean studies. The theme will rotate every other year, as the course will be offered to train undergraduates and graduate students for a major in Asian Studies. (LL)
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LA—Landscape Architecture |
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LA 1410 - Grounding in Landscape Architecture
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Fee for required package of drafting equipment plus materials for projects: approx. $300. Limited to 22 students.
Staff.
Introduction to the representation and design of landscapes and to working in a studio setting. Uses freehand drawing, measured drawing, and model making to understand design principles of the landscape within a cultural and ecological paradigm.
Outcome 1: Students shall be introduced to the fundamentals of landscape architectural representation including plan section and elevation.
Outcome 2: Students shall be introduced to perspective as a mode of landscape representation.
Outcome 3: Students shall be introduced to issues of representation related to scale.
Outcome 4: Students shall be introduced to Landscape Architecture through cultural and historical precedent.
Outcome 5: Students shall be introduced to landscape architectural history through analytical projects.
Outcome 6: Students shall be introduced to analog physical modeling.
Outcome 7: Students shall be evaluated based on a series of graphical assignments and iterative exercises.
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LA 1420 - Grounding in Landscape Architecture
Spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: freshman landscape architecture majors or permission of instructor. Required drafting equipment plus project supplies: approx. $250. Limited to approx. 20 students.
Staff.
This course applies fundamentals of landscape design to small-scale site-planning projects. Work in the studio introduces students to the design process, design principles, construction materials, and a wide array of graphic representation. Projects are selected at a variety of scale to expose students to a broad overview of problem-solving.
Outcome 1: Students shall develop their facility with graphical drawing and architectural representation including plan, section and elevation.
Outcome 2: Students shall be introduced to isometric drawing.
Outcome 3: Students shall be introduced to analytical representation using two and three-dimensional formats.
Outcome 4: Students shall be introduced to Landscape Architecture through spatial and material analysis.
Outcome 5: Students shall develop their analog physical modeling.
Outcome 6: Students shall be evaluated based on a series of graphical assignments and iterative exercises.
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LA 2010 - Medium of the Landscape
Fall. 5 credits.
Prerequisite: landscape architecture majors. Required drafting equipment, supplies, and fees approximately $250.
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Studio course emphasizing the design process and principles involved in organizing and giving form to outdoor space through the use of structures, vehicular and pedestrian circulation systems, earthforms, water, and vegetation.
Outcome 1: Students will become familiar with and gain confidence in the design process as a method for solving site planning problems.
Outcome 2: Students will gain the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and man-made) and their interactions.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop conceptual designs through three-dimensional models and quick sketches.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to expand conceptual design models into spatially defined and refined site plans.
Outcome 5: Students will develop graphic and computer skills to clearly communicate design intent.
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LA 2020 - Medium of the Landscape
Spring. 5 credits.
Prerequisite: LA 2010 with grade of C or better. Supplies and fees: approx. $250; field trip: approx. $250.
Staff.
Focuses on the role of materials and natural systems in design at multiple scales. Design strategies, theory and vocabulary in landscape architecture and allied disciplines are explored within the projects.
Outcome 1: Students will become familiar with and gain confidence in the design process as a method for solving site planning problems.
Outcome 2: Students will gain the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and man-made) and their interactions.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop conceptual designs through three-dimensional models and quick sketches.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to expand conceptual design models into spatially defined and refined site plans.
Outcome 5: Students will develop graphic and computer skills to clearly communicate design intent.
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LA 2610 - Fieldwork in Urban Archaeology (crosslisted)
(also ARKEO 2610 , CRP 2610 ) (CA) (HA)
Fall. 4 credits.
Three 8-hour Sat. field labs required; students choose three Sat. from seven offered.
S. Baugher.
Urban archaeologists study American Indian, colonial, and 19th-century sties that now lie within the boundaries of modern cities. The course explores how urban centers evolve, what lies beneath today’s cities, and how various cultures have altered the urban landscape. Students participate in a local archaeological excavation.
Outcome 1: Integration of Writing, Visual Representation and/or Speaking Presentation Skills. The Journals, archaeological field forms, and measured drawings of floor plans and wall plans of the excavation units will be a measure the students writing and visual presentation skills. The open house days will enable the students to develop their presentation skills. The final exam will also measure the students’ skills in writing.
Outcome 2: Develop a disciplinary literacy through history, theory, and contemporary issues/ practice.
The final exam will test/measure the student’s understanding of the literature and contemporary practice in American historical archaeology.
Outcome 3: Develop technical skills in archaeology. The students will be graded on their skills in field techniques. Their field forms and field journals will measure their ability to examine, describe, discuss, and analyze their findings in from their fieldwork.
Outcome 4: Students will work in teams to develop skills in negotiation and collaboration. Part of the fieldwork grade will evaluate the students’ ability to work in partnerships.
Outcome 5: Develop critical thinking. The final exam will measure the student’s ability to place archaeological evidence within its historical context, to evaluate, compare and contrast evidence in order to arrive at conclusions.
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LA 2620 - Laboratory in Landscape Archaeology (crosslisted)
(also ARKEO 2620 ) (CA) (HA)
Spring. 3 credits.
S. Baugher.
Various American Indian civilizations and European cultures have altered the landscape to meet the needs of their cultures. Students learn how to interpret the American Indian and Euro-American landscapes of specific archaeological sites by identifying and dating artifacts, studying soil samples, and creating site maps.
Outcome 1: Integration of Writing, Visual Representation and/or Speaking Presentation Skills. The artifact research reports will be a measure the students writing and visual presentation skills. The presentation to the park staff and to the Friends of Robert H. Treman State Park will measure the students public speaking, visual representation, and presentation skills. The take-home exam will also measure the students’ skills in writing.
Outcome 2: Develop a disciplinary literacy through history, theory, and contemporary issues/ practice.
The take-home exam will test/measure the student’s understanding of the archaeological literature and contemporary practice in American historical archaeology.
Outcome 3: Develop knowledge of and ability to identify, date, and catalogue historical artifacts. The two laboratory exams will test the students’ abilities and knowledge of this material.
Outcome 4: Develop research skills. The research paper will measure the student’s ability to describe, examine, evaluate, and analyze historical artifacts.
Outcome 5: Develop multicultural perspectives. The readings and the work with our community partners will enable the students to be exposed to multicultural perspectives. The final exam on the readings will test the students’ ability to compare and contrast archaeological evidence of cultural diversity.
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LA 3010 - Integrating Theory and Practice I
Fall. 5 credits.
Prerequisite: LA 2020 with grade of C or better. Supplies and fees: approx. $250; field trip: approx. $250.
Staff.
This studio engages participants in the art and science of design as well as focusing on site-scaled projects that consider significant cultural and natural landscapes. This course explores theories of landscape design, restoration, sustainable design, and landscape representation through projects that derive form from a specific site and place. This course reinforces the fundamentals of theory as related to site-specific problem-solving.
Outcome 1: Students will become familiar with and gain confidence in the design process as a method for solving site planning problems.
Outcome 2: Students will gain the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and man-made) and their interactions.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop conceptual designs through three-dimensional models and quick sketches.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to expand conceptual design models into spatially defined and refined site plans.
Outcome 5: Students will develop graphic and computer skills to clearly communicate design intent.
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LA 3020 - Integrating Theory and Practice II
Spring. 5 credits.
Supplies and fees: approx. $250; field trip: approx. $250; international studios: $500.
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Studio building on prior course work with an expectation that participants can creatively manipulate the program and conditions of a site, with increased emphasis on contemporary construction technology. Focuses on the expression of design solutions that grow from and affirm an explicit sense of site and place. Social, cultural, physical, and historical factors and their relationship to site design and planning are critically explored through theory and practice.
Outcome 1: Students will become familiar with and gain confidence in the design process as a method for solving site planning problems.
Outcome 2: Students will gain the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and man-made) and their interactions.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop conceptual designs through three-dimensional models and quick sketches.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to expand conceptual design models into spatially defined and refined site plans.
Outcome 5: Students will develop graphic and computer skills to clearly communicate design intent.
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LA 3160 - Site Engineering
Fall. 5 credits.
M. Palmer.
This course exposes students to the fundamentals of site grading and its relationship to best environmental practices. Lectures and short studio projects are provided to students and “worked-through” within the class period. These projects deal with earthwork estimating; storm water management, site surveys, site layout, and essential professional skills.
Outcome 1: Students shall be able to read, interpret and develop topographic mapping.
Outcome 2: Students will be able to design site-specific green infrastructure practices.
Outcome 3: Students should be able to calculate the run-off impacts of rainfall events.
Outcome 4: Pipe sizes will be able to be determined from calculated rainfalls.
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LA 3170 - Design and Environmental Systems
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with LA 5170 .
J. Cerra.
Every project, as an exercise in space-making, is influenced by the physical and biological properties that make up the project site. Physical and biological properties often structure site conditions, and frame many of the opportunities and constraints to site design. The physical and biological properties of a site are also influenced by their ongoing relationship with broader, large-scale physical and biological systems that operate in a site’s context. The physical and biological properties of sites, the contextual environmental systems that influence them, and the opportunities and constraints these factors afford site-based projects are what we will investigate in this course. We will then apply this knowledge to sites in the field through a series of quantitative and qualitative exercises.
Outcome 1: Students will develop an understanding of the physical and biological properties that define site conditions.
Outcome 2: Students will develop an understanding of context as a composition of networked environmental relationships within which all sites operate.
Outcome 3: Students will explore scale as a means for determining the relationship between the physical and biological properties of a site and the physical and biological systems that compose its context.
Outcome 4: Students will learn to analyze sites by taking quantitative and qualitative site data, drawing evaluative conclusions, and communicating findings graphically, verbally, and in writing.
Outcome 5: Students will learn to work effectively in teams and on their own to achieve desired results.
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LA 3180 - Site Construction
Spring. 5 credits.
Permission of instructor required.
P. Trowbridge.
Emphasizes detail design and use of landscape materials in project implementation. It explores construction materials, including specifications, cost estimates, and methods used by landscape architects in project facilitation. It includes lectures, studio problems, and development of drawings leading to construction documentation of one comprehensive project.
Outcome 1: Students shall be able to read an interpret land surveys.
Outcome 2: Students will graphically develop conventional drawings for construction and related administration.
Outcome 3: Students shall be able to identify and specify a variety of landscape materials.
Outcome 4: Students will develop and execute in CAD landscape-related construction documents.
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LA 3600 - Pre-Industrial Cities and Towns in North America (crosslisted)
(also ARKEO 3600 , CRP 3600 ) (CA) (HA)
Spring. 3 credits.
Co-meets with CRP 6660 /LA 6660 .
S. Baugher.
Various American Indian civilizations as well as diverse European cultures have all exerted their influences on the organization of town and city living. The course considers how each culture has altered the landscape in its own unique way as it created its own built environments.
Outcome 1: Ability to describe, identify, and discuss the diverse approaches cultures have taken to create and design North American pre-industrial cities and towns. The exams and term paper will be ways to measure and evaluate this knowledge.
Outcome 2: Integration of Writing, Visual Representation and Speaking/Presentation Skills. The exams, term paper, and class discussions will be used to measure these skills.
Outcome 3: Develop Knowledge of and Ability to work with allied Disciplines. Students will read and discuss articles from archaeology, city and regional planning, and landscape architecture that focus on community design. Their term papers will require them to use material from allied disciplines to analyze aspects of town planning. Their term papers will be used to evaluate their knowledge on this topic.
Outcome 4: Develop multicultural social and ethical perspectives. Students will exam, discuss, evaluate, and analyze diverse cultural approaches to town planning and community design. The term papers will measure the students’ ability to comprehend, explain, and analyze cultural differences regarding planning and design.
Outcome 5: Develop critical thinking. The final exam will measure the student’s ability to place evidence within its historical context, to evaluate, compare and contrast evidence in order to arrive at a conclusion.
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LA 3810 - Elusive Configurations: Spatial and Aesthetic Factors in City-Making
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with LA 5810 .
J. Foster.
What is a “good city”, and how do you make one? There is no straightforward answer to these questions; cities are extremely diverse, and making them involves the physical design of the whole or parts of the built fabric, and the strategic orchestration through policy and planning of systems and infrastructures. While they may seem reassuringly material, in reality cities are the outcome of the dynamic interaction between multiple forces over time. This course explores the natural, cultural, social, economic, and political factors that have historically shaped urban form, and how these are always intertwined with the ways of representing urban space. It also explores ways architects, planners, landscape architects, geographers, environmentalists and cultural critics propose we might make cities that better reflect contemporary realities.
Outcome 1: Students will learn the basic constituent elements of urban space and some of the common spatial typologies found in cities.
Outcome 2: Students will learn the difference and relationship between ‘process’, ‘form’ and ‘content’ in urban design.
Outcome 3: Students will learn some of the ways by which individuals experience and comprehend the city.
Outcome 4: Students will learn some of the ways groups physically, socially and imaginatively claim and use urban space.
Outcome 5: Students will learn some of the ways urban space encodes symbolic meanings and ideological values.
Outcome 6: Students will learn some of the historically significant theories and projects that have shaped the design of cities.
Outcome 7: Students will learn some of the key thinkers and texts that have shaped this evolution.
Outcome 8: Students will learn some of the natural, cultural and technological systems influencing the spatial configuration of cities.
Outcome 9: Students will learn some of the mechanisms that shape and control urban design and development.
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LA 4010 - Urban Design Studio
Fall. 5 credits.
Prerequisite: LA 3020 with a grade of C or better. Supplies and fees: approximately $250.00; fieldtrip, approximately $250.00.
Staff.
This studio focuses on the integration of theory and practice in landscape architecture at the urban scale. Urban design methods, morphology, and strategies are introduced and design and planning concepts applied to city-scaled projects including community engagement. Students are engaged in contemporary urban design strategies and methodologies on real-life projects in a metropolitain area.
Outcome 1: Students will become familiar with and gain confidence in the design process as a method for solving site planning problems.
Outcome 2: Students will gain the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and man-made) and their interactions.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop conceptual designs through three-dimensional models and quick sketches.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to expand conceptual design models into spatially defined and refined site plans.
Outcome 5: Students will develop graphic and computer skills to clearly communicate design intent.
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LA 4020 - Capstone Community Design Studio
Spring. 5 credits.
Supplies and fees: approx. $250; field trip: approx. $250. Open to landscape architecture seniors, graduate students and students in other fields with permission of instructor.
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A Service-Learning studio working with community partner(s) located in one of New York State’s Rust Belt Cities currently partnering with Cornell’s Rust to Green NY Action Research Project. Service-learning projects undertaken in this studio may include design of parks, community gardens, green streets and infrastructure, neighborhood revitalization, school gardens, greenways, etc.. Students will apply their professional design knowledge while learning theories and practices of placemaking, urban resilience, sustainability and engaged participatory community design. This studio aims to produce actionable design proposals and projects that advance and enable community revitalization and urban resilience. In addition, it aims to bring local and academic knowledge together in the belief that by working together we also learn together and increase our potential to creatively address the increasingly complex problems communities face.
Outcome 1: Students will participate in an engaged service-learning project with community partner(s) located in one of New York State’s Rust Belt Cities currently partnering with Rust to Green NY. Service-learning projects, (design of parks, streets, neighborhoods, greenways, etc.) undertaken in this studio aim to enable and empower actions that assist distressed urban neighborhoods in revitalizing, reimaging and renewing themselves.
Outcome 2: Through the service-project and readings, workshops, exercises and activities, students will gain an introductory understanding of specific theories, practices and research methods that are guiding the larger Rust to Green Action Research Project (resilience, placemaking, ecological infrastructure, sustainability, action research, smart growth, etc.) of which this service-learning studio is a part.
Outcome 3: Through this service-learning studio and project students will have an opportunity to practice their professional design knowledge while learning how to undertake an engaged participatory community design process that addresses an identified community need. Over the course of the semester, students will work in teams and in concert with community partners, to manage, facilitate, develop and produce a comprehensive design and planning proposal that meets a community need and is represented and communicated in written, visual and digital formats.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to learn and practice specific methods and approaches that can be used to facilitate a collaborative design dialogue with community partners including participatory design, surveys, narrative interviews, interactive meetings, place-based design representation, collaborative activities and events, etc.
Outcome 5: Through the service project, readings, lectures, field trips and discussions, students will dialogue and debate such questions as: What are the root causes of the challenges facing distressed contemporary urban neighborhoods? What role–both positive and negative- do the design professions play in distressed communities? What knowledge are we as designers lacking? What ethics and values should guide our practice?
Outcome 6: Through reflection exercises, journal entries, assignments and discussions, students will reflect on their learning throughout the course of the service-learning project and studio.
Outcome 7: Students will learn to proactively work with diverse others– peers, community members, disciplines- in a “learning community” where co-learning, mutual reciprocity and respect are practiced, honored and cultivated.
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LA 4030 - Directed Study: The Concentration
Fall, spring. 1 credit.
Prerequisite: landscape architecture undergraduates in final year of study.
Staff.
Working with their advisor, students create a written and visual paper that documents the concentration intent.
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LA 4050 - Designing Archaeological Exhibits (crosslisted)
(also ARKEO 4020 )
Fall. 2-3 credits, variable. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with ARKEO 6020 /LA 6050 .
S. Baugher.
For description, see ARKEO 4020 .
Outcome 1: Integration of Writing, Visual Representation and/or Speaking/Design Presentation Skills. The five museum evaluations and the exhibit text will measure the students writing skills. The public presentations of their exhibit designs will measure their visual representation and speaking skills.
Outcome 2: Develop Knowledge of and Ability to work with sister Disciplines. The museum class introduces the students to archaeology, cultural landscape, history, art history, and museum studies. The trips to diverse museums and the evaluations of five museum exhibits measures the students’ understanding of the role of other disciplines in museum design.
Outcome 3: Ability to engage the landscape as a space of community and culture. The work on a permanent outdoor museum exhibit measures the ability of the students to engage this landscape in a state park as a space that is both a cultural landscape and an active recreation area for both the local community and for tourists from around the state and region.
Outcome 4: Ability to work collaboratively with fellow students and community members. The students work on both the indoor and outdoor exhibits as members of teams. Their work will be a measure of their success in collaborative endeavors.
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LA 4070 - Emerging Dimensions in Urban Ecology and Sustainable Practices
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with LA 6070 .
J. Cerra.
This course explores the urban ecological desin movement as an interdisciplinary combination of ecoogical science and sustainable design innovation. Students research contemporary relationships between the built and natural environments through a series of written and graphic exercises, and then present their work in a symposium format for class discussion.
Outcome 1: Students will develop an understanding of urban ecological issues and their relationship to sustainable planning and design practice.
Outcome 2: Students will study examples of emerging policies, initiatives, and strategies that seek to integrate urban ecological objectives into sustainable urban planning and design practice.
Outcome 3: Students will investigate an urban ecological topic or issue and explore its potential implications for sustainable design innovation in urban environments.
Outcome 4: Students develop an exploratory thesis statement (abstract), and conduct literature searches and case study investigations to illuminate and support their thesis goals.
Outcome 5: Students will strengthen their ability to express and evaluate conclusions through a combination of written, graphic, oral presentation, and group discussion exercises.
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LA 4100 - Computer Applications in Landscape Architecture
Fall or spring. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: landscape architecture students. Limited to 15 students.
Staff.
Designed to develop a working knowledge of various computer software applications with emphasis on Autocad. Explores other applications relative to land-use planning and the profession of landscape architecture.
Outcome 1: Students will develop computer graphic/cad skills and integrate them into the profession of landscape architecture.
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LA 4120 - Professional Practice
Fall. 2 credits.
Staff.
This course presents the student with an understanding of the emerging role of the professional landscape architect. The course helps students explore various types of practice and introduces the problems and opportunities students may encounter in an office or in other professional situations. Topics include job-seeking preparation, practice diversity, marketing professional services, office and project management, construction management, and ethics.
Outcome 1: Students shall become familiar with the fundamentals of professional practice and a working office environment.
Outcome 2: Students shall be introduced to professional definitions of practice as defined by a state review board.
Outcome 3: Students shall develop an understanding of how offices are structured financially and how that impacts contract bidding.
Outcome 4: Students shall be introduced to a bid proposal and bidding process.
Outcome 5: Students shall be introduced to contracts and contract preparation.
Outcome 6: Students shall be evaluated on the concepts using a tests, assignments and a comprehensive team project.
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LA 4830 - Seminar in Landscape Studies
(CA) (LA)
Spring. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: senior or graduate standing in any major or field.
Staff.
Topical seminar with a different subject and method each time it is offered.
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LA 4860 - Placemaking by Design
Fall. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: priority given to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Limited to 20 students.
P. Horrigan.
Seminar providing an understanding of contemporary planning and landscape architecture design strategies that reaffirm and reclaim a sense of place. Readings and discussions focus on the theory and practice of placemaking as represented in the literature and in built works. Addresses the following questions: What constitutes a place-based design approach and what distinguishes it from other more conventional design approaches? Who are the key players shaping the theory and practice of placemaking?
Outcome 1: Students will be able to understand and define the interrelated theoretical concepts of place, placelessness, place-attachment and place-identity and their relevance to the design and planning disciplines.
Outcome 2: Through readings, exercises, case studies, films and direct experience, students will be able to ask critical questions, engage in discussions and reflect on their understanding of what constitutes place and place-making.
Outcome 3: Students will analyze and interpret their emergent understanding of place in reflection essays, journals and facilitated large and small group discussions.
Outcome 4: Students will learn to distinguish place-based design strategies, methods and approaches and their relevance to contemporary landscape architecture and design practice.
Outcome 5: Students will be able to analyze and interpret how the socio-cultural and physical environment combine and interact to found, produce, preserve and reclaim places.
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LA 4910 - Creating the Urban Eden: Woody Plant Selection, Design, and Landscape Establishment (crosslisted)
(also HORT 4910 )
Fall. 4 credits.
Supplies: approx. $50. Enrollment limited to: plant sciences or landscape architecture majors; or permission of instructors. Pre-registration required. Limited to 48 students.
P. Trowbridge, N. Bassuk.
For description and learning outcomes, see HORT 4910 .
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LA 4920 - Creating the Urban Eden: Woody Plant Selection, Design, and Landscape Establishment (crosslisted)
(also HORT 4920 )
Spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: passing grade in HORT 4910 /LA 4910 . Course fee: Supplies approx. $50. Enrollment limited to: plant sciences or landscape architecture majors; or permission of instructors. Preregistration required. Limited to 48 students.
P. Trowbridge, N. Bassuk.
For description and learning outcomes, see HORT 4920 .
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LA 4940 - Special Topics in Landscape Architecture
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable. (May be repeated for credit.)
Staff.
Topical subjects in landscape architectural design, theory, history, or technology. Group study of topics not considered in other courses.
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LA 4970 - Individual Study in Landscape Architecture
Fall or spring. 1-5 credits, variable. (May be repeated for credit.)
Students must register using independent study form available online.
Staff.
Work on special topics by individuals or small groups.
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LA 4980 - Undergraduate Teaching
Fall or spring. 1-2 credits, variable.
Previous enrollment in course to be taught and permission of instructor. Students must register using independent study form available online.
Staff.
Designed to give qualified undergraduates experience through actual involvement in planning and teaching courses under the supervision of department faculty members.
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LA 4990 - Undergraduate Research
Fall or spring. 1-5 credits, variable.
Students must register using independent study form available online.
Staff.
Permits outstanding undergraduates to carry out independent research in landscape architecture under academically appropriate faculty supervision. Research goals should include description, prediction, and explanation, and should generate new knowledge in the field of landscape architecture.
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LA 4991 - Undergraduate Honors Research in Landscape Architecture
Fall or spring. 1-5 credits, variable.
Students must register using independent study form available online.
Staff.
Permits outstanding students to carry out independent research in landscape architecture under appropriate faculty supervision. Research goals should include description, prediction, and explanation and should generate new knowledge in the field of landscape architecture.
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LA 5010 - Composition and Theory
Fall. 5 credits.
Drafting supplies and fees: approx. $250; field trip: approx. $250. Enrollment limited to: graduate standing required.
Staff.
Introduction to landscape architectural design through a series of course modules that engage students in discovering, knowing and engaging the full potential of the landscape medium. In this process-oriented studio students will develop design proposals for real and imagined sites drawing on knowledge and principles from art, aesthetics, science, nature and culture. Each module sequence will also be integrated with the companion LA 5050 course and emphasize the unfolding and emergent nature of designerly thinking, making and doing.
Outcome 1: Students will gain an introductory understanding of the meaning(s), language and vocabulary of landscape through direct engagement and experience in observing, recording, assessing and designing landscape sites that are both real and imagined. In addition, students will be exposed to historical and contemporary design theories and practices through such things as lectures, readings, films, excursions and field trips.
Outcome 2: Through design exercises students will learn how to creatively work with the expressive medium of landscape by using aesthetics, time, space, form, composition, architecture, narrative, ecology, plants, landform, climate, hydrology, culture and phenomena, to name a few.
Outcome 3: Students will gain an introductory understanding of landscape architecture as an act of placemaking – wherein the relationship between people and their environment is activated, integrated and enhanced.
Outcome 4: Students will learn and practice habits of collaboration, critical inquiry and reflection that are integral to the design process and to studio culture. Large and small group critiques, written and group reflection exercises, collective projects and activities, and studio discussions and dialogues will all be part of creating a supportive and interactive learning environment and studio culture.
Outcome 5: Students will learn and practice the landscape architectural design process as a set of integrated, enfolding and unfolding design acts involving site selecting; site investigating, assessing, evaluating, analyzing; site programming and planning; site structuring, ordering, functioning; site imagining and representing and; site constructing.
Outcome 6: While being exposed to specific design methods and strategies, students will be supported and encouraged to probe and discover their own creative voice and approach to landscape architectural design based on their individual interests, background, values and perspectives.
Outcome 7: Student will learn how to conceive and represent persuasive landscape architectural design proposals and solutions in the form of carefully crafted drawings and models and well considered written and verbal presentations.
Outcome 8: Through integrated design and representation exercises and projects, students will learn how the acts of landscape seeing, representation and making continually interrelate and inform one another.
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LA 5020 - Composition and Theory
Spring. 5 credits.
Drafting supplies and fees: approx. $250; field trip: approx. $250. Enrollment limited to: graduate standing required.
Staff.
Studio focusing on the spatial design of project-scale site development. Students develop their expertise in applying the design theory, vocabulary, and graphic expression introduced in LA 5010 .
Outcome 1: Students will become familiar with and gain confidence in the design process as a method for solving site planning problems.
Outcome 2: Students will gain the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and man-made) and their interactions.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop conceptual designs through three-dimensional models and quick sketches.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to expand conceptual design models into spatially defined and refined site plans.
Outcome 5: Students will develop graphic and computer skills to clearly communicate design intent.
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LA 5050 - Graphic Communication I
Fall. 3 credits.
Co-requisite: LA 5010 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This course introduces students to landscape architectural representation and teaches conventions such as basic drafting and orthographic drawing (plan, section, axonometric) alongside freehand drawing, collage, modeling, photography and digital representation. Assignments will be fully integrated with the projects being undertaken in the companion Studio Course LA 5010 emphasizing the seamless interplay of landscape architectural design with the activities of drawing, making and representation through which it is conceived and visualized.
Outcome 1: Students will learn, practice and develop habits of drawing and representation that are integral to their ongoing learning, growth and development as a designer. Generative and iterative drawing, orthographic drawing, drafting, modeling, mapping, diagramming, analysis and concept drawing, photography, collage, modeling and ideation drawing will be among the drawings types practiced.
Outcome 2: Students will learn how to conduct, record and translate field observations and measurements on landscape sites into site basemaps, plans and sections.
Outcome 3: Students will learn how to graphically compose, organize and present well-conceived visual design presentations that persuasively represent their designs in poster, portfolio and web-portfolio formats. Their learning will include a basic introduction to Creative Suite programs including In-Design, Photoshop and illustrator.
Outcome 4: Students will learn how to digitally prepare, upload, size, store and secure their graphic work for presentation and portfolio purposes.
Outcome 5: Students will learn and practice critical evaluation of landscape representation process and products– their own and those of their peers– through group critiques, peer review and reflection/evaluation sessions.
Outcome 6: Students will gain a basic understanding of the historic and contemporary way that the theory and practice of landscape representation has reciprocally influenced the theory and practice of conceiving and creating constructed landscapes. This understanding will be achieved through readings, lectures and visits to Cornell archive and museums collections.
Outcome 7: Students will learn how to access and use an array of landscape representation resources including books, articles, mapping resources, digital collections, on-line graphic tools, etc.
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LA 5060 - Graphic Communication II
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: LA 5050 . Corequisite: LA 5020 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Intermediate-level course focusing on modes of landscape representation from ideation to presentation. Representation modes may include freehand, process drawing, and analysis and orthographic drawing; concept modeling; composite drawings; and visual books.
Outcome 1: Students shall be introduced to advanced graphical theory and methods of representation.
Outcome 2: Students shall be introduced to three-dimensional modeling in a digital environment.
Outcome 3: Students shall be introduced to iterative methods of production in a digital and physical working environments.
Outcome 4: Students shall be introduced to method of “output” using physical modeling based on digital.
Outcome 5: Students shall be evaluated based on their use software and physical modeling equipment based on the development of an iterative assignment.
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LA 5090 - Master of Professional Studies Project
Fall or spring. 6 credits. S-U grades only.
Staff.
Problem-solving project entailing either fieldwork and/or library work. The aim of the project is to give students supervised experience in dealing intellectually and analytically with a professional problem related to a substantive area of international development.
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LA 5170 - Design and Environmental Systems
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with LA 3170 .
J. Cerra.
Every project, as an exercise in space-making, is influenced by the physical and biological properties that make up the project site. Physical and biological properties often structure site conditions, and frame many of the opportunities and constraints to site design. The physical and biological properties of a site are also influenced by their ongoing relationship with broader, large-scale physical and biological systems that operate in a site’s context. The physical and biological properties of sites, the contextual environmental systems that influence them, and the opportunities and constraints these factors afford site-based projects are what we will investigate in this course. We will then apply this knowledge to sites in the field through a series of quantitative and qualitative exercises.
Outcome 1: Students will develop an understanding of the physical and biological properties that define site conditions.
Outcome 2: Students will develop an understanding of context as a composition of networked environmental relationships within which all sites operate.
Outcome 3: Students will explore scale as a means for determining the relationship between the physical and biological properties of a site and the physical and biological systems that compose its context.
Outcome 4: Students will learn to analyze sites by taking quantitative and qualitative site data, drawing evaluative conclusions, and communicating findings graphically, verbally, and in writing.
Outcome 5: Students will learn to work effectively in teams and on their own to achieve desired results.
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LA 5450 - The Parks and Fora of Imperial Rome
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: advanced standing in a design field, classics, or history of art, other disciplines, or permission of instructor.
K. Gleason.
Advanced seminar seeking an interdisciplinary group of students in classics, art history, archaeology, landscape architecture, horticulture, and architecture to bring their knowledge of Latin, Greek, Italian, archaeology, drawing, design, or computer modeling to a collaborative study of the ancient forums and public parks of the ancient Roman world. Seminar involves students in current research and publication in this emerging area of archaeology and landscape history.
Outcome 1: To work with primary source material: texts, paintings, ancient plans, archaeological evidence.
Outcome 2: To gain insight into the opportunities and challenges of working with primary sources.
Outcome 3: To gain experience in working on interdisciplinary teams of archaeologists, historians, landscape architects, botanists and others.
Outcome 4: To attempt interpretations from fragmentary primary evidence, understanding the standards for rigor in argumentation.
Outcome 5: To see how a project goes from primary evidence through interpretation to publication.
Outcome 6: To use drawing and visual representation to the same levels of scholarly interpretation as texts and writings.
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LA 5810 - Elusive Configurations: Spatial and Aesthetic Factors in City-Making
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with LA 3810 .
J. Foster.
What is a “good city”, and how do you make one? There is no straightforward answer to these questions; cities are extremely diverse, and making them involves the physical design of the whole or parts of the built fabric, and the strategic orchestration through policy and planning of systems and infrastructures. While they may seem reassuringly material, in reality cities are the outcome of the dynamic interaction between multiple forces over time. This course explores the natural, cultural, social, economic, and political factors that have historically shaped urban form, and how these are always intertwined with the ways of representing urban space. It also explores ways architects, planners, landscape architects, geographers, environmentalists and cultural critics propose we might make cities that better reflect contemporary realities.
Outcome 1: Students will learn the basic constituent elements of urban space and some of the common spatial typologies found in cities.
Outcome 2: Students will learn the difference and relationship between ‘process,’ ‘form’ and ‘content’ in urban design.
Outcome 3: Students will learn some of the ways by which individuals experience and comprehend the city.
Outcome 4: Students will learn some of the ways groups physically, socially and imaginatively claim and use urban space.
Outcome 5: Students will learn some of the ways urban space encodes symbolic meanings and ideological values.
Outcome 6: Students will learn some of the historically significant theories and projects that have shaped the design of cities.
Outcome 7: Students will learn some of the key thinkers and texts that have shaped this evolution
Outcome 8: Students will learn some of the natural, cultural and technological systems influencing the spatial configuration of cities.
Outcome 9: Students will learn some of the mechanisms that shape and control urban design and development.
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LA 5900 - Theoretical Foundations
Spring. 3 credits.
Senior or graduate standing required.
A. Hammer.
This seminar is intended to provide students in the Department of Landscape Architecture with an overview of the theories and discourses related to the field. Topics may include, but are not limited to, environmental perception, issues of language and representation, pertinent debate in cultural geography, developments in ecological design, soundscape studies, landscape urbanism, infrastructure, etc. Weekly readings, discussion, short papers.
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LA 5970 - Graduate Individual Study in Landscape Architecture
Fall or spring. 1-5 credits, variable. (May be repeated for credit.)
Staff.
Work on special topics by individual or small groups.
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LA 5980 - Graduate Teaching
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
Permission of instructor required.
Staff.
Designed to give qualified students experience through involvement in planning and teaching courses under the supervision of faculty members. The experience may include leading discussion sections, preparing, assisting in desk critiques, and presenting lectures. There are assigned readings and discussion sessions on education theory and practice throughout the semester. (Credit hours are determined by the formula: 2 hours per week = 1 credit hour.)
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LA 6010 - Integrating Theory and Practice I
Fall. 5 credits.
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Supplies and fees: approx. $250.
Staff.
This studio focuses upon urban, site-scaled projects that consider significant cultural and natural landscapes. Explores theories of landscape restoration, sustainable design, and landscape representation. These are explored through projects that derive form from specific site and place. The integration of site history, ecology, and site construction supports an understanding and relationship between theory and practice.
Outcome 1: Students will become familiar with and gain confidence in the design process as a method for solving site planning problems.
Outcome 2: Students will gain the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and man-made) and their interactions.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop conceptual designs through three-dimensional models and quick sketches.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to expand conceptual design models into spatially defined and refined site plans.
Outcome 5: Students will develop graphic and computer skills to clearly communicate design intent.
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LA 6020 - Integrating Theory and Practice II
Spring. 5 credits.
Drafting supplies and fees: approx. $250; field trip: approx. $250. Graduate standing required.
Staff.
This studio builds on prior course work with an expectation that participants can creatively manipulate the program and conditions of a site, with increased emphasis on contemporary technology and ‘best’ green practices. Projects focus upon the expression of design solutions that grow from and affirm an explicit sense of site and place. Social, cultural, physical, and historic factors and their relationship to site design and planning are critically explored through theory and practice.
Outcome 1: Students will become familiar with and gain confidence in the design process as a method for solving site planning problems.
Outcome 2: Students will gain the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and man-made) and their interactions.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to develop conceptual designs through three-dimensional models and quick sketches.
Outcome 4: Students will be able to expand conceptual design models into spatially defined and refined site plans.
Outcome 5: Students will develop graphic and computer skills to clearly communicate design intent.
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LA 6030 - Directed Study: The Concentration
Fall, spring. 1 credit.
Prerequisite: landscape architecture graduate students in final year of study.
Staff.
Working with their advisor, students create a written and visual paper that documents the concentration intent.
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LA 6050 - Designing Archaeological Exhibits (crosslisted)
(also ARKEO 6020 )
Fall. 2-3 credits, variable. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with ARKEO 4020 /LA 4050 .
S. Baugher.
For description, see ARKEO 6020 .
Outcome 1: Integration of Writing, Visual Representation and/or Speaking/Design Presentation Skills. The five museum evaluations and the exhibit text will measure the students writing skills. The public presentations of their exhibit designs will measure their visual representation and speaking skills.
Outcome 2: Develop Knowledge of and Ability to work with sister Disciplines. The museum class introduces the students to archaeology, cultural landscape, history, art history, and museum studies. The trips to diverse museums and the evaluations of five museum exhibits measures the students’ understanding of the role of other disciplines in museum design.
Outcome 3: Ability to engage the landscape as a space of community and culture. The work on a permanent outdoor museum exhibit measures the ability of the students to engage this landscape in a state park as a space that is both a cultural landscape and an active recreation area for both the local community and for tourists from around the state and region.
Outcome 4: Ability to work collaboratively with fellow students and community members. The students work on both the indoor and outdoor exhibits as members of teams. Their work will be a measure of their success in collaborative endeavors.
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LA 6070 - Emerging Dimensions in Urban Ecology and Sustainable Practices
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with LA 4070 .
J. Cerra.
This course explores the urban ecological design movement as an interdisciplinary combination of ecological science and sustainable desin innovation. Students research contemporary relationships between the built and natural environments through a series of written and graphic exercises, and then present their work in a symposium format for class discussion.
Outcome 1: Students will develop an understanding of urban ecological issues and their relationship to sustainable planning and design practice.
Outcome 2: Students will study examples of emerging policies, initiatives, and strategies that seek to integrate urban ecological objectives into sustainable urban planning and design practice.
Outcome 3: Students will investigate an urban ecological topic or issue and explore its potential implications for sustainable design innovation in urban environments.
Outcome 4: Students develop an exploratory thesis statement (abstract), and conduct literature searches and case study investigations to illuminate and support their thesis goals.
Outcome 5: Students will strengthen their ability to express and evaluate conclusions through a combination of written, graphic, oral presentation, and group discussion exercises.
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LA 6160 - Site Engineering
Fall. 5 credits.
M. Palmer.
This course exposes students to the fundamentals of site grading and its relationship to best environmental practices. Lectures and short studio projects are provided to students and “worked-through” within the class period. These projects deal with earthwork estimating; storm water management, site surveys, site layout, and essential professional skills.
Outcome 1: Students shall be able to read, interpret and develop topographic mapping.
Outcome 2: Students will be able to design site-specific green infrastructure practices.
Outcome 3: Students should be able to calculate the run-off impacts of rainfall events.
Outcome 4: Pipe sizes will be able to be determined from calculated rainfalls.
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LA 6180 - Site Construction
Spring. 5 credits.
Permission of instructor required.
P. Trowbridge.
Emphasizes detail design and use of landscape materials in project implementation. It explores materials, including specifications, cost estimates, and methods used by landscape architects in project facilitation. It includes lectures, short studio problems, and the development of drawings leading to construction documentation for one comprehensive project.
Outcome 1: Students shall be able to read an interpret land surveys.
Outcome 2: Students will graphically develop conventional drawings for construction and related administration.
Outcome 3: Students shall be able to identify and specify a variety of landscape materials.
Outcome 4: Students will develop and execute in CAD landscape-related construction documents.
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LA 6660 - Pre-Industrial Cities and Towns in North America (crosslisted)
(also CRP 6660 ) (CA) (HA)
Spring. 3 credits.
Co-meets with ARKEO 3600 /CRP 3600 /LA 3600 .
S. Baugher.
Various American Indian civilizations as well as diverse European cultures have all exerted their influences on the organization of town and city living. The course considers how each culture has altered the landscape in its own unique way as it created its own built environments.
Outcome 1: Ability to describe, identify, and discuss the diverse approaches cultures have taken to create and design North American pre-industrial cities and towns. The exams and term paper will be ways to measure and evaluate this knowledge.
Outcome 2: Integration of Writing, Visual Representation and Speaking/Presentation Skills. The exams, term paper, and class discussions will be used to measure these skills.
Outcome 3: Develop Knowledge of and Ability to work with allied Disciplines. Students will read and discuss articles from archaeology, city and regional planning, and landscape architecture that focus on community design. Their term papers will require them to use material from allied disciplines to analyze aspects of town planning. Their term papers will be used to evaluate their knowledge on this topic.
Outcome 4: Develop multicultural social and ethical perspectives. Students will exam, discuss, evaluate, and analyze diverse cultural approaches to town planning and community design. The term papers will measure the students’ ability to comprehend, explain, and analyze cultural differences regarding planning and design.
Outcome 5: Develop critical thinking. The final exam will measure the student’s ability to place evidence within its historical context, to evaluate, compare and contrast evidence in order to arrive at a conclusion.
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LA 6900 - Methods of Landscape Architectural Inquiry
Spring. 3 credits.
Graduate standing required.
Staff.
This course builds on the theoretical foundations provided in LA 5900 with an investigation of the variety of methods used in landscape architectural and urban design research and practice. These methods may include, but are not limited to, physical analysis, mapping, site inventory, behavioral observations, cultural landscape investigations, surveys, and interviews. The format of the course combines weekly lecture and applied research projects.
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LA 6940 - Special Topics in Landscape Architecture
Fall or spring. 1-3 credits, variable. (May be repeated for credit.)
Staff.
Topical subjects in landscape architectural design, theory, history, or technology. Includes group study of topics not considered in other courses.
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LA 7010 - Urban Design and Planning
Fall. 5 credits.
Supplies and fees: approx. $250; required field trip: approx. $50. Graduate standing required.
Staff.
This studio explores the application of urban design and landscape urbanism techniques to the problems and opportunities of contemporary city making. The studio investigates the social, cultural, natural, and infrastructural systems of urban environments, and develops integrated spatial design strategies involving streets, built form, and open space networks. The course introduces three-dimensional computer modeling and digital design media as tools for urban design.
Outcome 1: Develop a disciplinary literacy through landscape history, theory and contemporary practices.
Outcome 2: Ability to engage landscape as community from rural to urban scales.
Outcome 3: Students shall be able to develop 3-dimensional electronic models.
Outcome 4: Students shall be able to collect and assess data related to urban communities.
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LA 7020 - Advanced Design Studio
Spring. 5 credits.
Prerequisite: LA 7010 . Supplies and Fees approximately $250.00. Field trip expenses approximately $250.00.
Staff.
This advanced design studio provides students in the final year of the graduate program in Landscape Architecture with the opportunity to work on complex, real-time projects. The overarching goal of this course is to test the student’s theoretical, methodological, technical, and representational competency and ability to engage with a range of scales and issues. Through intensive studio work, seminar sessions, independent research, and site visits, students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to develop sound and creative solutions to environmental design problems.
Outcome 1: Students shall work collectively with other disciplines
Outcome 2: Ability to assess the landscape in Urban Areas as related to Community Design.
Outcome 3: Students shall work graphically at a variety of scales.
Outcome 4: Students shall develop solutions to community projects with contemporary graphic tools.
Outcome 5: Students will integrate writing, visual representation and oral presentation skills.
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LA 7900 - Audio Documentary
(CA) (LA)
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Limited to 15 students.
A. Hammer.
Offers hands-on experience in basic documentary storytelling. Students create aural portraits of New York landscapes and communities undergoing critical change. Encourages projects appropriate for podcasting, webcasting, and radio. Explores relationship between sound and the still or moving image.
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LA 7910 - Placemaking by Design
Fall. 3 credits.
Limited to 20 students.
P. Horrigan.
Seminar providing an understanding of contemporary planning and landscape architecture design strategies that reaffirm and reclaim a sense of place. Readings and discussions focus on the theory and practice of placemaking as represented in the literature and in built works. Addresses the following questions: What constitutes a placebased design approach and what distinguishes it from other more conventional design approaches? Who are the key players shaping the theory and practice of placemaking?
Outcome 1: Students will be able to understand and define the interrelated theoretical concepts of place, placelessness, place-attachment and place-identity and their relevance to the design and planning disciplines.
Outcome 2: Through readings, exercises, case studies, films and direct experience, students will be able to ask critical questions, engage in discussions and reflect on their understanding of what constitutes place and place-making.
Outcome 3: Students will analyze and interpret their emergent understanding of place in reflection essays, journals and facilitated large and small group discussions.
Outcome 4: Students will learn to distinguish place-based design strategies, methods and approaches and their relevance to contemporary landscape architecture and design practice.
Outcome 5: Students will be able to analyze and interpret how the socio-cultural and physical environment combine and interact to found, produce, preserve and reclaim places.
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LA 7920 - Landscape Preservation: Theory and Practice
Fall. 3 credits.
Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.
D. Krall.
Examines the evolving practice of landscape preservation in the United States. Topics include the recent history of the discipline, methodology in documentation of historic landscapes, and important practitioners and notable projects. Format is assigned readings and discussion, invited speakers, lectures, and a project documenting a local site.
Outcome 1: Students should understand the concepts and terminology commonly used in the discipline of landscape preservation.
Outcome 2: Students will be become familiar with the intent of a cultural landscape preservation report and generate the initial sections of such a report.
Outcome 3: Students will discuss challenges within the discipline of landscape architectural preservation and present possible resolutions to these problems.
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LA 8900 - Master’s Thesis in Landscape Architecture
Fall or spring. 4-9 credits, variable.
Staff.
Independent research, under faculty guidance leading to the development of a comprehensive and defensible design or study related to the field of landscape architecture. Work is expected to be completed in final semester of enrollment.
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LANAR 4970 - Individual Study in Landscape Architecture
Spring. 1-5 credits, variable. (May be repeated for credit.)
L. J. Mirin.
Work on special topics by individuals or small groups.
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LANAR 5240 - History of European Landscape Architecture
(HA)
Fall. 3 credits.
L. Mirin.
Survey from classical times to the present, emphasizing design principles and techniques that have established the landscape architecture tradition in Europe. Particular reference is made to the manner in which gardens, streets, plazas, parks, and new towns reflect in their built form, a range of responses to demands of culture, economics, technology, security, the law, and ecology.
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LANAR 5250 - History of American Landscape Architecture
(HA)
Spring. 3 credits.
L. Mirin.
Landscape architecture in the United States from Jefferson to the present is examined as a unique expression of the American experience. Influences exerted by the physical landscape, the frontier and utopian spirit, and the cultural assumptions of democracy and capitalism are traced as they affect the forms of urban parks, private and corporate estates, public housing, transportation planning, national parks, and other open-space designs.
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LATA 1320 - Music of Latin America (crosslisted)
(also MUSIC 1320 ) (GHB) (CA-AS)
Fall. 3 credits.
R. Sierra.
For description, see MUSIC 1320 .
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LATA 1950 - Colonial Latin America (crosslisted)
(also HIST 1950 ) (GHB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
E. Bassi.
For description, see HIST 1950 .
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LATA 1960 - [Modern Latin America] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 1960 ) (GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
R. Craib.
For description, see HIST 1960 .
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LATA 2050 - Introduction to Art History: Latin American Art (crosslisted)
(also ARTH 2550 ) (HB) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Staff.
For description, see ARTH 2550 .
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LATA 2062 - [Migrant Workers in the Americas] (crosslisted)
(also HIST 2062 , ILRLR 3062 , LSP 2062 ) (HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next Offered 2013-2014.
R. Craib.
For description, see LSP 2062 .
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LATA 2150 - Contemporary Latin American Survey (crosslisted)
(also SPAN 2150 ) (GB) (LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall, spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: SPAN 2070 or SPAN 2090 , or CASE Q+ or permission of instructor.
Staff.
For description, see SPAN 2150 .
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LATA 2170 - Early Modern Iberian Survey (crosslisted)
(also MEDVL 2170 , SPAN 2170 ) (HB) (LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.
Fall, spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisites: SPAN 2070 or SPAN 2090 , or CASE Q+, or permission of instructor.
Fall, M.A. Garcés; spring, S. Pinet.
For description, see SPAN 2170 .
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LATA 2200 - Perspectives on Latin America (crosslisted)
(also SPAN 2200 ) (GB) (CA-AS)
Spring. 3-4 credits, variable.
Highly recommended for Latin American Studies minors. Conducted in English. Students can choose to enroll in a 1-credit disccussion section (4-credit option) conducted in Spanish.
C. Lawless.
For description, see SPAN 2200 .
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LATA 2240 - [Perspectives on the Caribbean] (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2240 , SPAN 2240 ) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: SPAN 2190 or permission of instructor. Next offered 2013-2014. Conducted in English.
G. Aching.
For description, see SPAN 2240 .
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LATA 2250 - [The U.S.-Mexico Border: History, Culture, Representation] (crosslisted)
(also AMST 2250 , HIST 2250 , LSP 2250 ) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Next offered 2013-2014.
M.C. Garcia.
For description, see HIST 2250 .
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LATA 2308 - Caribbean History (crosslisted)
(also ASRC 2308 , HIST 2541 ) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
J. Byfield.
For description, see HIST 2541 .
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LATA 2800 - Perspectives on Brazil (crosslisted)
(also PORT 2800 ) (GB) (CA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
G. Furtado.
For description, see PORT 2800 .
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LATA 3010 - Hispanic Theatre Production (crosslisted)
(also COML 3010 , LSP 3010 )
Spring. 1-3 credits, variable.
D. Castillo and M. Dreyer-Lude.
For description, see LSP 3010 .
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