Program Description
Total Hours: 18
The minor in Landscape Studies will provide students with an enhanced understanding of the historic conflicts and opportunities that lie at the intersection of nature and healthy ecosystems and the design of the built human environment. The landscape studies minor structures an ecology inclusive of humanity and educates students in the role of design in shaping a better future. The landscape studies minor will help students explore social design and the history of design, design and human behavior, human ecology, humanity’s dependence on a healthy planet, concepts of sustainability, resiliency, energy efficiency, healthy living, and the positive impacts of evidenced based design. The minor is complimentary to many lines of inquiry such as Engineering, Plant Sciences, Geography, Geology, Business, Real Estate Development, Ecology, and Life and Physical Sciences.
- A minor must contain at least 9 hours of upper division course work.
