| Spring 2010 Lower- and Upper-Division Courses |
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LD ARCH 102 (5) Two hours of lecture and six hours of studio per week. PREREQUISITES: 101 or consent of instructor. This studio stresses the shaping and coordination of ideas from initial concept to complete design product. A product(s) of intermediate scale and complexity (such as a garden, small park, plaza, or campus courtyard) will be developed in detail including the selection of planting, selection of construction materials, and topographic design. Lecture modules on selected professional topics are integrated into this course. LD ARCH 102 SEC 1 Description to come. LD ARCH 102 SEC 2 Description to come. LD ARCH 112 (4) Two hours of lecture and six hours of fieldwork per week. This course is an introduction to the identification and recognition, as well as design applications and uses, of plants in the landscape. Through lectures, assignments, and fieldwork, the course provides class participants with an appreciation of the importance of vertical vegetation as a design element. Students will be introduced to a variety of built projects and plants commonly used in Bay Area landscapes. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 120 (3) Two hours of lecture and two hours of studio per week. PREREQUISITES: 102 or consent of instructor. Technical, graphic and computational exercises, and studio problems in topographic site design and the shaping of the site for surface drainage. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 121 (4) Three hours of lecture and one and one half hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 101, ARCH 100A, or consent of instructor. This course introduces the visual and physical characteristics of landscape construction materials including, but not limited to, stone, brick, concrete, metal, asphalt, and wood. Additionally, lectures cover the production and availability of these materials, any existing evaluations on their sustainability, and their potential impact on the immediate environment. Students also learn to utilize standard sources of information on building materials and the terminology typically utilized when choosing and specifying construction materials. They become familiar with dimensional standards for landscape structures, including pavements, stairs, furnishings, retaining walls, freestanding walls, fences, decks, and small overhead structures. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 130 (3) Three hours of lecture per week. This course introduces the foundations of sustainability most related to the restoration, design, and creation of landscapes and cities. The underlying principles of ecology, nature, and democracy are concretized in centered-ness, connectedness, fairness, sensible status seeking, sacredness, particular-ness, selective diversity, density and smallness, limited extent, adaptability, everyday future, naturalness, inhabiting science, reciprocal stewardship, and pacing. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 132 (4) Three hours of lecture and three and one-half hours of laboratory per week. This course introduces students to the use of computers in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design. It develops applied computing skills in Web publishing, Computer Aides Design (CAD), image scanning, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). CAD is emphasized in the first half of the semester and includes: 2D and 3D modeling, object rendering, integration of images, fly-through movies, and solar studies. The rest of the semester expands spatial design, graphics, and virtual modeling by integrating support information from geographic information systems (GIS), digital ortho-photos (DOP/DOQ), and global positioning systems (GPS). Lecture time is spent discussing problems and solutions of data: acquisition, accuracy, representation, modeling, and communication in landscape design. The lab/studio seeks innovative application of technology to medium- to large-scale landscape design problems. The focus of the lab/studio varies from semester to semester, but typical topics include garden design, park design, neighborhood design, open space design, and others. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 136 (3) Two hours of lecture and four hours of studio per week. Imagination is the foundation for creative expression in the landscape. This course encourages exploration and personal expression for the realization of new landscape forms. This laboratory intends to refine drawing compositional skills by fostering imagination, intuition, and creativity. The media explored will be pen and ink, watercolor, collage, and 3-dimensional construction. We will study the human figure through analytical drawings and live models. The realms of moving images, the landscape of the animated cartoon, and the sequential art of the comic will be investigated. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 138 (3) Description to come. LD ARCH 140 (3) Two hours of lecture and one hour of seminar per week. User-oriented approach to design. Post-occupancy evaluation as a tool for understanding use of designed open spaces. Design as a communication process. Environmental needs of vulnerable populations--children, elderly, disabled, low-income families. Personal and societal environmental values. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 141AC (3) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. This course will compare and contrast the nature of African American, American Indian, and European American relationships with the American Landscape. Traditional patterns of land use within each subculture will be explored, and juxtaposed against prevailing theory and ideology. Social patterns of use, perception, attached meaning and sense of place, and the transformation of the environment as the result of social change are some of the topics to be discussed. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 160 (3) Three hours of seminar per week. PREREQUISITES: 161 or graduate standing. Survey and analysis of professional practice in landscape architecture focusing on: the context of professional practice--office structure, public, private and non-profit practice, marketing, project management and delivery; the legal parameters of practice--contracts, codes, planning regulations, project approval processes, liability; and economics--budgeting, profits, project development costs, fiscal impacts, and financing. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH C171 (3) This course surveys the history of American landscape architecture since 1850 in four realms: 1) urban open spaces--that is squares, plazas, parks, and recreation systems; 2) urban and suburban design; 3) regional and environmental planning; 4) gardens. The course will review the cultural and social contexts which have shaped and informed landscape architecture in the United States since the advent of the public parks movement, as well as, the aesthetic precepts, environmental concerns, horticultural practices, and technological innovations of American landscapes. Students will complete a midterm, final, and a research assignment. Also listed as American Studies C171. Extended Course Description To come. LD ARCH 197 (2–3) Hours to be arranged. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. Prerequisites: Upper division standing and consent of instructor and sponsor. See departmental information sheet for limitations. Supervised experience relative to specific aspects of landscape architecture. Regular individual meetings with faculty and outside sponsor. Reports required. LD ARCH 198 (1–4) Hours to be arranged. PREREQUISITES: Consent of instructor. No more than 4 units allowed each semester. Course may be repeated for credit. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. LD ARCH 199 (1–4) PREREQUISITES: Consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. |