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The post-professional program is geared towards professionals and recent landscape architecture graduates who are seeking to develop a specific skill or area of expertise in landscape architecture and affiliated disciplines. It takes advantage of Rutgers’ vast academic resources to allow you to develop an interdisciplinary course of study to directly address your interests. The basic course of study requires a minimum of 30 credits, part time options are available.
A list of areas of interest and academic resources follow:
Areas of Interest
- Regional Design and Water Management
- Ecological Restoration and Wetlands
- GeoDesign and GIS
- Urban Forestry
- History and Theory
- Visualization and Representation
- Urban Design and Planning
- Residential Design
- Community Gardens
- Urban Agriculture
- Environmental Justice
- Participatory Design
- Green Infrastructure
- Post Industrial Sites
Academic Resources
- School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
- Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
- Mason Gross School of the Arts
- Office of Agriculture and Urban Programs
- Center for Urban Restoration Ecology
- Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis
- Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability
- Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies
- Eagelton Institute of Politics
- Rutgers Climate Institute
- NJ Climate Change Alliance
Required Courses
- Research Methods (2 credits)
- Thesis Research (6 credits)
- Colloquium (3 credits)
- Expertise Courses (22 credits in graduate level courses)
Three examples for building your program of interest
Example: Post Industrial Sites and Green Infrastructure Focus
Expertise Courses
- 16:550:533 Ecology and Landscape Architecture Studio, 5 credits
- 16:550:554 Concepts of Preservation and Design of Postindustrial Landscapes, 3 credits
- 16:550:536 Sustainability/Special Topics Studio, 5 credits
- 16:550:552 Landscape History II, 3 credits
- 11:550:442 Sustainable Landscape Technologies, 3 credits
- 16:375:534 Environmental Sustainability, 3 credits
- 34:970:622 Urban Redevelopment, 3 credits
Example: History of Design and Cultural Landscapes Focus
Expertise Courses
- 1 6:550:535 Housing and Open Space Studio, 5 credits
- 16:550:553 Theories of Landscape Architecture, 3 credits
- 16:550:552 Landscape History II, 3 credits
- 16:082:594 CHAPS: Significant Objects: Material Culture Studies
- and Cultural Heritage, 3 credits
- 16:082:603 CHAPS: Cemeteries, Monuments, and Memorials:
- Cultural Heritage and Remembering the Dead, 3 credits
- 34:970:652 Urban Political Theory, 3 credits
- 34:970:521 Historic Preservation, 3 credits
Example: Urban Agriculture
Expertise Courses
- 16:550:536 Regional/Special Topics Studio, 5 credits
- 16:550:545 Introduction to Geomatics, 3 credits
- 11:550:301 Social and Cultural Aspects of Design, 3 credits
- 11:550:442 Sustainable Landscape Technologies and Systems Design, 3 credits
- 16:215:520 Landscape Ecology, 3 credits
- 11:550:371 Agriculture and the Landscape, 3 credits
- 16:375:573 Soil Ecology, 3 credits