Welcome to the Department of Landscape
Architecture at the University of Idaho providing an excellent
professional education in landscape architecture in the Northwest
and Inland Northwest. The faculty and program are committed to
education and scholarship that supports the theme of Creating Place
within the Bioregion, where the bioregion, its watersheds,
ecoregions, species habitats, and use patterns and history become
the context and creative inspiration for land planning, site
planning, design development and design detail.
OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS
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The department maintains
articulation agreements
with several two- year landscape horticulture and landscape
technology programs enabling students from these colleges, once
admitted to the University of Idaho, to transfer seamlessly into the
BLA program at the completion of their program.
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The majority of studio projects serve as the core of the
department’s
Outreach mission
with students collaborating with professionals, governmental
agencies and University of Idaho architecture students on
design and
planning projects for communities in the
state and region.
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Qualified transfer students who enter the undergraduate program with
a four-year baccalaureate degree in another discipline may apply for
the three-year
BLA/MSLA
option. All other qualified students
with an undergraduate degree may apply for an additional one-year,
30 credit hour
MSLA
degree.
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Students have the opportunity to participate in the department’s
Summer Study Abroad
Program at Casa Wallace in Cremolino, Italy. This six week,
11-credit hour program may be used as a substitute for one of the
third year studios and a required urban theory course.
• A number of landscape architecture courses
are divided into eight-week, half semester courses to provide the
student more flexibility in scheduling.
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The Department of Landscape Architecture has an established
tradition in
GIS
and provides opportunities for advanced GIS applications in regional
and community planning.
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Landscape Architecture History (LArc
389)
can be taken as a
distance-learning course in the summer session.
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All BLA landscape architecture majors are required to take part in
two
field trips
in the third and fourth year of the program. These three to five day
trips are usually to Northwest cites such as Portland, Seattle and
San Francisco. Students tour nationally significant landscape
architectural sites and visit the offices of some of the finest
landscape
architecture firms in the world. Often
one of these trips is substituted by a visit to the American Society
of Landscape Architects (ASLA) national conference when
the meeting is held in the western region of the country.
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Faculty work with students to assist them in finding
summer internships
with public agencies and private firms.
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Qualified BLA degree students may take up to nine credit hours of
graduate electives in their fourth year of the program and use these
towards an additional
one-year 30 credit MSLA degree.
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curriculum and program opportunities, please continue:
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