Apr 19, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog
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LAR 530 - Plants in the Landscape I

3 Credit Hours
Provides students with an introduction to the use of plant materials in the built environment, drawing upon contemporary approaches to landscape architecture and sustainable landscape design. The course is structured to provide students with concrete working knowledge - identification and performative characteristics - of approximately 120 plants that are somewhat common in the southeast or across the United States with a particular emphasis on plants that are well-adapted to urban situations. In addition to plant identification, the course will provide students with a series of frameworks through which to consider how plants have been or could be utilized, as well as emerging ecological theories such as novel ecosystems.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture, 1 hour lab.
Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both LAR 530 and LAR 432.
Registration Restriction(s): College of Architecture and Design graduate students or consent of instructor.



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