This major provides the education necessary for a professional degree in landscape architecture, a discipline that merges design and science. This includes instruction in:

• Representation and communication;
• Design principles and processes;
• Histories and theories of landscape;
• Construction techniques;
• Plant and soil science;
• Professional practice.

Through service and project-based learning, students engage with communities and apply knowledge gained to specific case studies. Upon graduation, students either enter practice or continue for graduate studies. 

1. To protect the health, safety, and well-being of people and communities, including future generations;
2. To safeguard the health and resilience of natural systems, ecosystems, and nonhuman inhabitants.

For detailed information, please refer to psla.uconn.edu.

Requirements

Landscape Architecture majors must pass the following courses:

Supplementary Scholastic Standards

Accreditation and space restrictions limit the number of students in the Program of Landscape Architecture. All students choosing the landscape architecture major will be evaluated during the introductory landscape architecture courses LAND 2110 Landscape Architecture: Graphics I - Design Drawing and/or LAND 2210E The Common (Shared) Landscape of the USA: Rights, Responsibilities and Values. Preferred minimum requirements for continuance in the Program of Landscape Architecture are a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or better and a grade of 3.0 “B” or better in both introductory courses. 

After this evaluation takes place, students are notified of their acceptance into the program and given permission to enroll in the subsequent landscape architecture courses.

Thereafter students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or better, and must earn grades of 2.7 “B-” or better for all major (LAND) courses. Students who receive more than one grade below 2.7 “B-” in major (LAND) courses may be dismissed from the major. Courses may be retaken if space allows, with permission of the instructor, but no course in the Program of Landscape Architecture may be repeated more than once (for a total of two times).