Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Concentrations:

• Ecological Landscape Planning and Design

• Design and Management of Cultural Landscapes

• Urban Planning, Policy and Design

• Information Technology in Planning & Design

 
Masters of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

Reccommended Electives

The Landscape Architecture Program and the larger University of Massachusetts resources can provide students with exciting learning opportunities in several areas. These University resources can either broaden one's education or can help students to develop strength or expertise in an aspect of landscape architecture for which the student possesses a special talent or expresses an interest. Below we have listed three areas of concentration. Some students may wish to select electives in several of these areas to broaden their education. Others may wish to take several of these electives in one of the concentrations, to develop a special strength in a given concentration. Some may wish to select electives from the large number of relevant courses offered at UMass.

Ecological Landscape Planning and Design

Biology 485 Aquatic Vascular Plants
  524 Coastal Plant Ecology
  526 Plant Geography
  535 Limnology
  537 Ecology
  426/697 New England Flora
   

Civil & Environmental Engineering 514 Infrastructure Management
  618 Travel Demand Estimation
  662 Water Resource System Analysis
     
Economics 582 Urban Economics
  752/753 Econometrics
  765 Economic Development: Structural Problems
  766 Economic Development: Policy Issues
  797A Special Topics - Regional Economics
     
Forestry and Wood Technology 577 Ecosystem Modeling and Stimulation
  587 Introduction to Digital Remote Sensing
  592G Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Fisheries and Wildlife
  888 Advanced System Economics
     
Geosciences 560 Geomorphology
  587 Hydrogeology
     
  510 Natural Hazards
  530 Population and the Enviroment
  626 Spirit of Place (2nd semester)
  660 Industrial Geography
  570 Housing and Urban Development
     
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 586 Quantitative Decision Making
  or SOM752 Quantitative Decision Making
  620 Linear Programing
     
Plant and Soil Science 565 Soil Formation, Classification and Land Use (2nd semester)
  597S Principles of Environmental Site Assesment (2nd semster)
  587W Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (1st semester)
     
Political Science 603 Public Policy Analysis
  604 Program and Policy Evaluation
  605 Economics and Public Policy
  607 Policy Methods
  608 Intro to Statistical Methods for Public Policy and Administration
  609 Workshop on Public Policy and Administration
     
Regional Planning 553 Resource Policy and Planning
  558 Issues in Environmental Management
  575 Planning Law and Resource Management
  645 Growth Management
     
Resource Economics 701 Quantitative Methods
  702 Econometric Methods
  711 Microeconomic Theory I
  712 Microeconomic Theory II
  720 Environmental and Resource Economics
     
Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation 563 Wetland Wildlife Ecology and Management
  577 Ecosystem Modeling and Simulation
  587 Digital Remote Sensing
  597C Ecosystems Management
  597G Readings in GIS
  697B International Conservation
  697I Landscape Ecology
  768 Advanced Wetland Ecology
  888 Advanced System Ecology


The Design and Management of Cultural Landscapes

Anthropology 529 Archeology of Northeastern North America
  582 History of Archeology
  621 Prehistoric Cultural Ecology
     
Art 501 Advanced Drawing
  502 Advanced Drawing Problems
  520 Painting ­ Representation 1
  521 Painting ­ Representation 2
  551 Interior Design
  557 Architectural Design Problems 1
  597B Special Topics ­ Color Theory
  597M Special Topics ­ Photography 1
  632 Rendering
  650 Interior Design III
  651 Interior Design IV
  656 Architectural Lighting
  657 Architectural Design Problems II
  659 Environmental Behavior and Design Evaluation
  691E Seminar ­ Design Colloquium
  791D Seminar ­ Graduate Design
  797P Special Topics ­ Criticism, Theory and Practice
     
Art History 500 Greek Art
  506 Early Medieval Art
  507 Romanesque and Gothic Art
  511 Early Renaissance Italian Art
  512 Northern European Art 1460-1600
  513 Late Renaissance and Mannerist Italian Art
  516 Italian Baroque Art
  517 Northern European Art 1600-1700
  521 European Art 1780-1880
  522 Modern Art 1880-present
  524 American Art to 1860
  525 American Art 1860-1940
  527 History of the Decorative Arts
  531 19th c. Architecture
  532 20th c. Architecture
  536 History of Islamic Art and Architecture I
  537 History of Islamic Art and Architecture II
  551 Roman Art
  556 Medieval Painting
  563 Vernacular Architecture
  564 Architecture Now
  566 Criticism of Modern Art
  568 Contemporary Art
     
Comparative Literature 791 Modernism(s)
     
Geosciences 626 Spirit of Place
     
History 658 Topics in American Social History
  659 Public History
     
Psychology 560 Introduction to Environmental Psychology
  707 Environment, Behavior and Design Evaluation
     
Regional Planning 574 City Planning
  665 Human Behavior and the Designed Landscape
     
*Courses offered at Hampshire College    
  HA220 Architecture of Memory
  SS209 Topics in Urban Studies
  SS249 Cities and Suburbs
  SS254 Colloquium on Community Development
     
*Courses Offered at Mount Holyoke College    
  AH243F Building the Modern Environment: Architecture 1890-1990
  AH302 Great Cities
  AH341S Images of the Landscape and their Social Environment

*Please note these are undergraduate courses; students wishing to take these courses for graduate credit must speak with the program director and course instructior prior to registration.

Urban Planning and Design

Art History 532 20th Century Architecture
     
Environmental Science 597R Watershed Science and Mangement
     
Economics 582 Urban Economics
     
Education 329 International Education
     
Geosciences 510 Natural Hazards
  530 Population and Environment
  626 Spirit of Place
  666 The Water's Edge
  670 Housing and Urban Development
     
History 615 Topics in the History of Early Modern Europe
  646 Topics in Early American History
     
Plant and Soil Science 590C Solid Waste Issues and Management
  597P Pollution Control Science and Technology
  597L Wetland Delineation, Federal Procedure
  597W Constructed Wetlands fior Wastewater Treatment
     
Political Science 784 Environmental Policy
     
Landscape Architecture 691R Regenerative Issues in Design
     
Regional Planning 553 Resource Policy and Planning
  558 Issues in Environmental Management
  574 City Planning
  575 Environmental Law and Resource Management
  577 Urban Policies
  625 Quantitative Methods in Planning
  651 Planning Hisory and Theory
  691M Planning for Industrial Development


Urban Planning and Design

Art History 532 20th Century Architecture
     
Environmental Science 597R Watershed Science and Mangement
     
Economics 582 Urban Economics
     
Education 329 International Education
     
Geosciences 510 Natural Hazards
  530 Population and Environment
  626 Spirit of Place
  666 The Water's Edge
  670 Housing and Urban Development
     
History 615 Topics in the History of Early Modern Europe
  646 Topics in Early American History
     
Plant and Soil Science 590C Solid Waste Issues and Management
  597P Pollution Control Science and Technology
  597L Wetland Delineation, Federal Procedure
  597W Constructed Wetlands fior Wastewater Treatment
     
Political Science 784 Environmental Policy
     
Landscape Architecture 691R Regenerative Issues in Design
     
Regional Planning 553 Resource Policy and Planning
  558 Issues in Environmental Management
  574 City Planning
  575 Environmental Law and Resource Management
  577 Urban Plicies
  625 Quantitative Methods in Planning
  651 Planning Hisory and Theory
  691M Planning for Industrial Development

Application of Information Technologies in Design and Planning
Art 597D Special Topics: Computing in the Fine Arts
  687C Special Topics: Computer Aided Design
  697J Special Topics: Computer Animation I: Introduction to Computer Animation
  697Q Special Topics: Computer Animation II: Introduction to Computer Animation
  697Z Special Topics: Desktop Graphic Design
     
Computer Science 683 Arificial Intelligence
     
Electrical and Computer Engineering 660 Interactive Computer Graphics
     
Forestry and Wood Technology 531 Aerial Photogrammetry
  587 Intrioduction to Digital Remote Sensing
  592G Georgraphic Information Systems in Fisheries and Wildlife
  777 Advance Systems Ecology
     
Regional Planning 593M Information Technology in Planning and Design
  691E Seminar on Geographic Information Systems for Planning and Design
Landscape Architecture 692 Computer Aided Design for Landscape Architects
  691 Advance Computer Applications in Landscape Architecture
Management 632 Computers and Information Systems

 

   
 
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