Introduction to methods and models of design practice administration: proposal, contracts, project management, collaboration and licensure.

Explore the art and craft of designing with plants with a focus on species, space and community -- both plant communities and communities of people. Through rapid design exercises creatively employing large-scale hand and digital drawings and full-scale mockups, students will explore how to move from inspiration to plant selection, procurement, installation and maintenance of horticulture-focused designed landscapes.

Cities have altered natural drainage patterns, vegetation, local climate and habitats. Cities can use natural elements such as plants, trees and wetlands combined with engineered structures as "constructed green infrastructure" to redesign degraded urban sites. Students will utilize "green infrastructure" to create conceptual designs for sites to absorb stormwater, clean the air, or provide food and recreation.

Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor .

Exploring the craft of speculative fiction to vision possible futures, this seminar takes on the future of our discipline as a site of design. Grounded in the histories and theories of radical pedagogies and practices, we will engage our skills to design speculative landscape futures and the pedagogies that will seed their emergence. The course itself will be a co-constructed pedagogical experiment in which we all take an active role in creating.

This seminar explores the history of landscapes as sites of pleasure, sensuality, and eroticism. Cases will range from the idealized topos of the enclosed garden to the marginal spaces of coastal landscapes and modern urban parks. By examining built works as well as those of myth, imagination, and fiction, we will analyze the ongoing significance of Arcadia and its progeny for revealing the erotic potential of landscape as a medium.

Learn to better understand plant communities by observing plants, identifying their defining characteristics, and using different drawing and painting techniques to document them. This class will explore the two seasons of Winter and Spring to observe the changes in the landscape by closely looking at plants.