
3YR Landscape Architecture Program Requirements (62 credits**)
***3YR Curriculum Guide and F20/W21 MLA Time Schedule ***
3YR Courses and Requirements (PDF)
Studio Courses (25 credits)
- EAS 587 a (2)(f) Place and Environment
- EAS 587 b (2)(f) Making Place
- EAS 590 a (2)(f) Principles of Eco Design
- EAS 590 b (2)(f) Ecological Site Design
- EAS 687 (4)* Landscape Planning and Analysis
- EAS 688 (4) Site Planning and Design
- EAS 691 (3) Planting Design
- EAS 750 (2) Urban Design
- EAS 787 (2+2) Metropolitan Design Dynamics
Visualization and Graphics Courses (7 credits)
Landscape Technologies (10 credits)
- EAS 588 (4)(f) Site Engineering
- EAS 591 (3)(f) Materials & Methods
- EAS 501 (3) Professional Practice
Landscape History and Theory (3 credits} with additional suggested elective
- EAS 503 (3) Sustainable Sites and Historical Precedent and H & T Elective
Open Electives
SEAS Requirements (17-18 credits)
- Ecological Processes
- IAMS Requirement (2 courses; 3 credits minimum) (see reverse)
- Capstone Requirement (at most 6 credits of EAS 700/701)
*Meets SEAS Analytics Requirement
** 44 non-foundation credits required by Rackham Graduate School
Any petitions to substitute or waive a requirement must be approved by appropriate faculty and submitted to OAP.
All courses must be taken on a graded basis, if taught for a grade. Courses modified as S/U do not count towards the 62 credit degree program.
Integrated Analytic Methods and Skills Requirement
Students are required, at some point during their time enrolled in the program, to take 2 courses composing at least 3 credits from a faculty-approved list of courses that focus on integrative analytic methods and skills. The faculty-approved existing courses that satisfy this requirement are listed below:
Fall
- 447 - Forest Ecology and Management
- 578 – Urban Stormwater
- 530 - Decision-Making For Sustainability
- 552 – Ecosystem Services
- 553 - Diverse Farming Systems
- 572 – Environmental Impact Assessment
- 533 – Negotiation Skills (Fall A)
- 535 – Mediation Skills
- 567 - Social Vulnerability & Adaptation to Environ Change
- 570 – Environmental Economics
- 597 – Environmental Systems Analysis
- 564 – Localization Seminar
- 677 – Climate Adaptation Seminar
- 687 – Landscape Planning
Winter
- 549 – Analysis and Modeling of Ecological Data
- 501 – Science and Management of the Great Lakes
- 545 – Applied Ecosystem Modeling
- 550 – Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development
- 557 – Industrial Ecology
- 569 - Stakeholder Network Analysis
- 581 – Advanced Education for Environment and Sustainability
- 589 – Ecological Restoration
- 610 – Advanced LCA Methods and Software Tools (Winter B
- 641 – Interdisciplinary Research Methods
- 787 – Metro Studio (MLA only)