The landscape architecture minor is designed to introduce the content and contributions of the field to students outside the professional program. The minor is an eighteen-hour curriculum that includes nice credit hours of core courses and nine credit hours of elective courses. The core nine credit hour curriculum introduces basic knowledge in design thinking, the history of landscape architecture and urbanism. The elective courses include courses that explore different trajectories within the area of landscape architecture including cultural landscapes, representation, social justice, plants and ecology and urbanism.
The minor is open to all UNL students. Entrance to the minor is by application, grade review,and permission of the program director, Mark Hoistad. Contact Leslie Gonzalez, admissions coordinator, for the application.
Required Courses 9
DSGN 110 Design Thinking 3
LARC 241 History of Landscape Architecture 3
LARC 461 Urbanism (ARCH 461) 3
Credit Hours Subtotal: 9
Elective Courses 9
CRPL 433 GIS in Environmental Design and Planning
LARC 462 Urbanism and the Catalysts of Change
LARC 467/ ARCH 467/ PLAS 467 Planting Design
LARC 492 Selected Topics in Landscape Architecture: Cultural Landscapes at Risk, Environment & Future Transport, and Critical Urbanisms: Design for Justice
Credit Hours Subtotal: 18
