Landscape architecture is founded on an awareness of our deep connections to the natural world and the recognition that we are part of the web of life. A healthy society rests on a commitment to landscape design that respects the land, its processes, its integrity --- and that helps fulfill human potential. These are applied to making richly supportive places beautiful in their response to human needs and ecological context. The Department of Landscape Architecture is built on the 19th-century legacy that landscape architecture is both a design and a social profession with responsibilities to ourselves, society, the past, and the future. The program combines professional understanding and skills with a liberal-arts education.
As a profession, landscape architecture includes ecologically based planning activities and the analysis of environmental impacts as well as the detailed development of land and sites. As an academic discipline, it provides an opportunity for personal development through environmental problem solving and project-oriented study.
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As a profession it includes the detailed development of land and sites of all sizes and uses, as well as planning activities, both of which rest on a foundation of ecological understanding which views human value systems as a major force in landscape change.
Our program objectives are to provide both a solid base of essential skills, tools and knowledge and enough flexibility to allow each student to proceed through the program following his or her own pattern of interests and readiness.
As an academic discipline, Landscape Architecture provides a unique opportunity for personal development through environmental problem-solving and project-oriented study. The faculty emphasize the making of richly supportive and expressive places. We see planning and design as processes for understanding the complex interdependence between natural and cultural systems.
Graduate students wishing to pursue a Master's degree who enter the program with a Bachelor's degree from a non-design field, or from a non-accredited program in landscape architecture, enter the First Professional Master's Degree program, a three years plus one term program of study. Because graduate students are not required by the university to take general education classes, we offer a very intense first year program geared toward accelerating the graduate students in their professional education by the end of that introductory year. By that point the First Professional Master's students have established a fundamental introductory understanding of design, media, plant materials, site analysis and landscape technologies and move on to more advanced coursework and graduate studies in the second and third years.
A First Professional Bachelor Degree Program for graduate students is available for students who wish to pursue a course of study that culminates a comprehensive design project as opposed to a graduate research/design project. This program combines learning the basic skills and knowledge of Landscape Architecture in the early years with significant attention paid to an individually focused, studio-based design project that the students organize and execute in their third year.
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The First Professional Master's Degree Program combines learning the basic skills and knowledge of Landscape Architecture with graduate research work during the third year. Students are required to take five elective classes in their 'Area of Concentration' and in support of the Master's project or thesis. This program begins in the third week of June each year.
Based upon their undergraduate courses, work experience, and background in design-related disciplines, these students may have competency in some areas, gained either through previous course work or professional experience. In these cases, adjustments are made to the typical program of study for each individual, done in consultation with a faculty advisor.
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STUDY ABROAD
Examples of programs offered outside of the UO have included the DIS program in Copenhagen, study in Norway and Sweden offered through UC Davis, and a summer experience in Costa Rica offered by SUNY Buffalo. Students will also often elect to travel, either on their own, or as part of a scholarship-funded exploration that meets their own interests or that meets an area of concentration interest that they have.
The Landscape Architecture department also has partnered with Lincoln University in New Zealand to establish an exchange program for students. This program enables students at the UO to travel to Christchurch for two terms and study landscape architecture in the program at Lincoln. Students interested in work on the Pacific Rim, or in the landscape of that region of the world, have found this experience to be an amazing opportuniity to experience life overseas while pursuing their degree.
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