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About the Minor

The Minor in Landscape Design focuses on both social and environmental aspects of landscape design.  The Minor is designed for students who are interested in design and issues related to how we form our landscapes.  It is a great foundation for graduate school in design disciplines, providing grounding in architectural drawing and ‘reading’ the landscape, and the student will develop an understanding of design thinking and how designers learn in a studio environment. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Read the landscape, including the social and environmental forces that shape our world.
  2. Engage critically in the process of creative expression.
  3. Practice design as an iterative process and foster experimentation in the making of form.
  4. Express design intentions through drawing, modeling, recording, and presentation.

Requirements

Foundation: Choose one course (3 credits)

  • 11:550:101 (3) Landscape Studies (AHp, HST), or
  • 11:550:230 (3) Environmental Design Analysis (AHp, CCO), or
  • 11:550:250 (3) History of Landscape Architecture (HST), or
  • 11:373:205 (3) Small Business Essentials

Environmental Issues and Social Approaches to Design: Choose one course (3 credits)

  • 11:550:233 (3) Landscape Plants, or
  • 11:550:235 (3) Herbaceous Plants, or
  • 11:550:301 (3) Social and Cultural Aspects of Design (WCd), or
  • 11:550:341 (4) Construction 2: Materials and Assemblies
  • 11:573: 202 (3) Environmental Issues (CCO, WCd), or  
  • 11:374:101 (3) Intro to Environmental Policy, Institutions, and Behavior (CCO, SCL)

Studio Foundation and Design: 3 required classes (12 credits)

  • 11:550:231 (5) Intro Environmental Design 1 (co-req. 11:550:237) *
  • 11:550:237 (3) Landscape Drawing and Drafting (AHr)
  • 11:550:241 (4) Construction 1: Site Engineering (QR)

Total credits required: 18 minimum

* Environmental Planning Majors need to take 11:550:232 Intro Environmental Design 2 or a Praxis Studio with the permission of the instructor.

The Landscape Design Minor is not offered to students majoring in Landscape Architecture.

Program Director

Arianna Lindberg
848-932-8010
Blake Hall, Rm. 114
a.lindberg@rutgers.edu

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