Landscape Architecture (LARC)

LARC200
Landscape and Environmental AppreciationCrosslisted with GEOG 200, PLAS 200

Description: Values and processes in human landscapes and natural environments. Concepts and tools to understand the context of local and global environments and significant historical landscapes. Landscape as an indicator of aesthetic quality, design principles and processes as integrators of humans and nature, and the garden as a model for creating sustainable landscapes.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity ACE 7 Arts

LARC201
Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and ShrubsCrosslisted with NRES 201, PLAS 201

Description: An introduction to the naming, identification, and natural history of woody trees and shrubs in North American with emphasis on trees common to Nebraska. Covers morphology, natural site conditions, wildlife and human uses of woody trees and shrubs.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:FALL

Credit Hours:3

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LARC210
Studio I: Landscape Architecture Design Foundations

Prerequisites: Admission into the Professional Program

Description: Introductory design studio exploring design principles central to landscape architecture. Three interrelated aspects of design are pursued: 1) the elements of composition and their formal and spatial manipulation, 2) meanings conveyed by formal choices and transformations and 3) response to cultural and environmental forces in the landscape.

Course details
Credit Hours:5
Max credits per semester:5
Max credits per degree:5
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL

Credit Hours:5

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LARC211
Studio II: Landscape Architecture Site Design

Prerequisites: LARC 210

Description: Design studio that applies theoretical, analytical, conceptual, design, and communication skills in landscape architecture. Applied problem types at various scales, emphasize procedures and skills needed for the translation of research, site analysis, programming and conceptual ideas, from two dimensional media to physical design of three-dimensional form. Emphasis is on the development of critical thinking, spatial literacy, and design process skills.

Course details
Credit Hours:5
Max credits per semester:5
Max credits per degree:5
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:5

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LARC212
Woody Plants for Landscapes: Identification, Management, and UseCrosslisted with PLAS 212, NRES 212

Description: Identification, basic management and design uses of trees and shrubs for sustainable landscapes, with an emphasis on native plants and plants adapted to the Plains states. Emphasis is on live specimens in outdoor environments, supported by online resources.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:FALL

Credit Hours:3

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LARC213
Cultivars and Varieties of Woody Plants for LandscapesCrosslisted with PLAS 213, NRES 213

Description: Characteristics of commercially available trees and shrubs used in urban landscapes. Compares differences among cultivars, design uses, and management issues using a combination of live specimens in outdoor environments and online resources.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:3

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LARC230
Site Systems I: Materiality in Landscape Architecture

Prerequisites: Admission to the College of Architecture

Description: Relationship between design and implementation through construction processes, detailing as an extension of design, landscape architectural materials, basic structural theory, detailing and structures, and technical specifications as a means of ensuring design intent.

This course is a prerequisite for: LARC 231

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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LARC231
Site Systems II: Site Engineering

Prerequisites: LARC 230

Letter Grade Only

Description: Investigation and application of landscape architectural design analysis, process and technology to aesthetic/functional landform manipulation, earthwork estimation, and stormwater management.

This course is a prerequisite for: LARC 330

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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LARC241
History of Landscape Architecture

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and permission.

Description: Survey of the development of landscape design from pre-history to the present day.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

LARC310
Studio III: Landscape Architecture Advanced Site Design

Prerequisites: LARC 211

Description: Intermediate studio focused on the integrated relationship between landscape architecture and architecture. Projects focus on development of the land, integrating ecological and social systems at various scales.

This course is a prerequisite for: LARC 311

Course details
Credit Hours:5
Max credits per semester:5
Max credits per degree:5
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:5

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LARC311
Design Studio IV: Ecological and Cultural Landscape Systems

Prerequisites: LARC 310

Description: Intermediate design studio. Landscape architecture design projects positioned in relation to ecological and cultural landscape systems. Design projects emerge from both research and critical speculation at both the site and regional scale.

This course is a prerequisite for: DSGN 410; LARC 411

Course details
Credit Hours:5
Max credits per semester:5
Max credits per degree:5
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:5

ACE:

LARC330
Site Systems III: Landscape Architecture Implementation

Prerequisites: LARC 231

Description: Investigation and application of landscape architectural design analysis, process and technology to landscape utility/circulation systems, structures, site layout, construction observation and implementation.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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LARC380
Internship Preparation

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: To provide students with information about career choices in landscape architecture and an appropriate knowledge base and support in the development of materials with which to secure an internship position.

Course details
Credit Hours:1
Max credits per semester:1
Max credits per degree:1
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1

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LARC392
Selected Topics in Landscape ArchitectureCrosslisted with LARC 492, LARC 592

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Group investigation of a topic in landscape architecture.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-6

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LARC411
Design Studio VI: Advanced Design in Landscape Architecture

Prerequisites: LARC 311

Letter Grade Only

Description: Critical issues in landscape architecture involving human settlement and the natural environment. Community development or redevelopment projects are used to expand traditional and contemporary theory and practice.

Course details
Credit Hours:5
Max credits per semester:5
Max credits per degree:5
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:SPRING
ACE Outcomes: ACE 10 Integrated Product

Credit Hours:5

ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product

LARC413
Capstone Studio

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: As the culmination of studying Landscape Architecture, students conduct a semester-long design project, initiated by the student and under the supervision and guidance of a faculty mentor.

Course details
Credit Hours:5
Max credits per semester:5
Max credits per degree:5
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:5

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LARC417
Product DesignCrosslisted with ARCH 417, ARCH 617, ARCH 817, IDES 417, IDES 817

Prerequisites: IDES 201, IDES 301 (or DSGN 421, 422 & 423), IDES 416

Description: Generate a design from conception to a finished product that emphasizes the awareness of the human and the environment in the creation of product design solutions.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:3

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LARC453
Urban Soil Properties and ManagementCrosslisted with PLAS 453, SOIL 453

Prerequisites: PLAS/SOIL 153

Description: Characteristics of soils in urban settings. Evaluation of soils intended for intensive human uses and strategies for their use. Identification of specific issues related to urban soils. Manipulation or remediation of soils subject to construction and other stresses.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:3

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LARC461
UrbanismCrosslisted with ARCH 461, ARCH 561, ARCH 861

Prerequisites: LARC/NRES 487; parallel DSGN 410

Letter grade only.

Description: Issues of contemporary urbanism and the processes of urban design. Experiential nature of cities, role of public policy, ideology, genesis and development of urban form and space.

This course is a prerequisite for: ARCH 562, LARC 462

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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LARC462
Urbanism and the Catalysts of ChangeCrosslisted with ARCH 562

Prerequisites: Admission into the graduate portion of the professional program in Architecture or for undergraduate Landscape Architecture students; LARC 461

Description: Exploration into the relationship between the evolution of urbanism and the cultural, economic and scientific advances made by civilization.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

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LARC467
Planting DesignCrosslisted with ARCH 467, ARCH 567, ARCH 867, PLAS 467

Description: Processes, principles, and elements using plant materials as a key component of landscapes designed for human intent. Focus is on a systems approach, combining environmental attributes with functional needs to create aesthetic, functional, and sustainable landscapes for parks, commercial property, and residences using a combination of site visits and online resources.

Course details
Credit Hours:4
Max credits per semester:4
Max credits per degree:4
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:FALL
Course and Laboratory Fee:$25

Credit Hours:4

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LARC470
International Service-Learning Experience

Prerequisites: Permission by instructor

Description: This course is an international service-learning experience. Students study cultural implications of working within communities, and extensive project planning, management, and evaluation. Working with an international partner, teams of students working with faculty plan, design, conduct, and evaluate short- and long-term community projects.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-6

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LARC480
Professional Practice

Prerequisites: Admission to the Landscape Architecture Program

Description: Orientation to professional practice through a study of the architects' and the contractors' relationships to society, specific clients, their professions, and other collaborators in the environmental design and construction fields. Ethics; professional communication and responsibility; professional organizations; office management; construction management; legal and contractual relationships; professional registration; and owner-architect-contractor relationships.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL

Credit Hours:3

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LARC487
Introduction to Landscape EcologyCrosslisted with NRES 487

Prerequisites: PLAS/SOIL 153 and BIOS/NRES 220.

PLAS/LARC/GEOG 200, CIVE 353/853/NRES 853, and CRPL 470 recommended.

Description: The history, principles, and concepts of landscape ecology. Use and application of landscape structure, function in the planning, the design, and management of human and natural landscapes.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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LARC489
Design ResearchCrosslisted with ARCH 489, ARCH 589, ARCH 889, IDES 489, IDES 889

Prerequisites: Admission to a professional program in the College of Architecture.

Description: Comprehensive overview of the complementary and contributory relationship between research and design, with a particular emphasis on design research as a projective activity.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL

Credit Hours:3

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LARC492
Selected Topics in Landscape ArchitectureCrosslisted with LARC 392, LARC 592

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Group investigation of a topic in landscape architecture.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:12
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-6

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LARC495
Internship

Description: Exposure to the landscape architectural profession through professional office experience or project work that polishes old skills and generates new competencies that cannot be duplicated in a traditional university setting.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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