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 with a concentration in one of four areas: Horticultural Studies, Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, or Built Environment Studies.

In this program, you are required to take seven core courses in the Environmental Design program, and nine courses in your area of concentration. During your Freshman and Sophomore years you will be satisfying the University's General Education requirements as well as some of the Environmental Design core classes that will help you build a sound basis of knowledge in oder to pursue 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.

• Should you explore the Concentration in Landscape Studies you will study landscape conservation, applied ecology, and resource policy to understand how people change and protect 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.

• You can pursue studies that will tell you more about the small-scale details of the landscape and, through the Concentration in Horticultural Studies, learn how you can apply sound scientific, construction, and management principles in adding beauty to the environment.

• The Concentration in Urban Studies will introduce you to the life and forms of cities and towns. You will study economics, policy, politics, and social justice to understand ways in which communities develop, and learn to develop strategies for improving urban conditions through planning, and design.

• 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 needs and ambitions have been expressed in buildings. You will study economics, functionality, and beauty inherent in well-designed and executed building.

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.