This undergraduate program offers opportunities
to study many aspects of the environment we live in from a design
point of view. Four
years of directed study leads to a degree of Bachelor of Science
in Environmental Design. In your Freshman and Sophomore years you
will be satisfying the University's General Education requirements
and, at the same time, by taking the courses suggested you will
be
building a sound basis of knowledge for pursuing
advanced and more focused study in one of the Concentrations during
your Junior and Senior Years.
In your Junior and Senior years you have four options for focused
study,
based upon four important professions whose members are working to improve
the quality and the appearance of the world we live in.
- You can pursue studies that will tell you more about the natural and designed
world
and, through the Concentration in Horticultural
Studies, learn how you can apply sound scientific principles
in conserving nature and adding beauty, by way of plants, to the world we
live in.
- Should you explore the Concentration
in Landscape Studies you will study landscape
conservation and ecology to understand how people change their
environments. From this study you will
realize
how important it is that we balance development with conservation
and examine ways to implement that balance.
- The Concentration in Urban Studies will
introduce you to the life and forms of cities and towns.
You will follow their evolution and see how communities evolve,
physically, socially, politically and economically. You will
study the behavior of people
who live close together, identify their problems, and
you will understand ways to solve these problems through
policy, and planning.
- Alternatively, you may choose to study
architectural design and theory in
the Concentration
in the Built Environment . Because
architecture is a social art you will learn
about people and how their desires have
been expressed in building over time.
You will study the economics, functionality,
and beauty inherent in well-designed and
executed building.
There is a demand, locally and globally, for concerned and knowledgeable individuals
to enter the environmental design professions outlined above, to oversee and
direct
the building of safer and more beautiful places in which we might work and live.
This program gives you a foundation to pursue an advanced professional degree
and an opportunitity for personal
growth and satisfaction.
The award of this Bachelor of Science degree will indicate that you have
achieved a foundation of knowledge sufficient for you to proceed to join a
professional organization. You may choose to undertake further, more advanced,
studies such as are required to enter one of the environmental design professions.
Uniting these diverse professions is a desire to uplift society by humanizing
our cities, protecting farmland, conserving wilds, and by endowing our world
with beauty.
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