Landscape Architecture & Horticulture
Landscape Architecture & Horticulture
For more than 40 years, our students have helped beautify Southern California.
Whether you're looking to create a career in landscape architecture and design, or a career in horticulture, we offer a robust series of course offerings.
Get skills for professional success with two certificates: the Landscape Architecture Certificate and the Horticulture Certificate. And if you're looking for a quicker, more focused study, take a look at our three specializations: Arboriculture, Gardening, and Plants for the Landscape.
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Landscape Architecture & Horticulture
Courses
ARCH X 471.1A
Landscape Design 1: Site Design Basics
Explore form and the importance of scale in landscape architectural design. These skills and insights are applied culminating in a study of a small, site-scale school garden.
ARCH X 471.1B
Landscape Design 2: Site Design
Learn how to analyze a site and create a program design that responds to the site and surroundings.
ARCH X 471.2
Landscape Design 3: Advanced Site Design
Applying site inventory and analysis with a site program, students create their design process and concept development using real sites in interesting urban and semi-urban environments. Use of computer modeling programs is highly encouraged.
ARCH X 472.9
Landscape Design 4: Environmental Analysis and Planning
Utiltizing methods of environmental research and analysis, students invstigate the natural, historical, and cultural factors impacting land-use.
ARCH X 472.5
Landscape Design 5: Planting Design
Ecological and cultural contexts are examined as determinants for using plants in design.