Master of Landscape Architecture

2023 MLA Career Outcomes

There are two main types of Graduate Assistantships: Graduate School Assistantships and CED Departmental Assistantships. The Graduate School awards University-wide assistantships to entering students on the basis of academic merit and other criteria. To be eligible, students must complete their graduate school applications by February 1st and be sponsored by the College. University-wide assistantships require at least 13 hours of work each week, in addition to an academic load requirement of 12 semester hours. The stipend is available each month for up to nine months of the academic year. The College of Environment and Design awards departmental assistantships on the basis of academic achievement and job skills required. These assistantships are open to all students. Courseload and work requirements are the same as for university-wide assistantships, but departmental assistantships are assigned on a semester-by-semester basis. Note that A CED student can be awarded an assistantship from another UGA department/college, but CED will not disburse funds from other departments/colleges on campus. 

For both types of graduate assistantships, no special application is required; all entering students who meet the criteria and apply by January 1 are considered.

For more information regarding funding options for the MLA program, please contact Annelie Klein.

There are two main types of Graduate Assistantships: Graduate School Assistantships and CED Departmental Assistantships. The Graduate School awards University-wide assistantships to entering students on the basis of academic merit and other criteria. To be eligible, students must complete their graduate school applications by February 1st and be sponsored by the College. University-wide assistantships require at least 13 hours of work each week, in addition to an academic load requirement of 12 semester hours. The stipend is available each month for up to nine months of the academic year. The College of Environment and Design awards departmental assistantships on the basis of academic achievement and job skills required. These assistantships are open to all students. Courseload and work requirements are the same as for university-wide assistantships, but departmental assistantships are assigned on a semester-by-semester basis. Note that A CED student can be awarded an assistantship from another UGA department/college, but CED will not disburse funds from other departments/colleges on campus. 

For both types of graduate assistantships, no special application is required; all entering students who meet the criteria and apply by January 1 are considered.

For more information regarding funding options for the MLA program, please contact Annelie Klein.

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All students should read at least some of the following publications, or ones like them, before entering Georgia’s MLA program. They are preliminary to landscape architecture: they deal more with values and perceptions than with techniques. Some of them may be out of print and available only libraries, not bookstores; that does not reduce their value as background to landscape architecture.

Books

• American Landscape Architecture, edited by William Tishler
• Architecture: Form, Space & Order, Francis D.K. Ching
• Bounded People, Boundless Lands, Eric Frey Fogle
• Celebrating Third Place, edited by Ray Oldenburg
• Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
• Design with Nature, Ian L. McHarg
• Earth in Mind, David Orr
• Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
• Experience of Place, Tony Hiss
• Genus Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, Christian Norberg-Schultz
• The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
• God, Dr. Buzzard and the Boltio Man, Cornelia Walker Bailey
• Great Streets, Allan B. Jacobs
• The Granite Garden, Urban Nature, and Human Design, Ann Whiston Spirn
• The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch
• Keeping Time, William Murtaugh
• Landscape Architecture: An Illustrated History, William Mann
• Landscape Journal: Eco-Relevatory Design, Special Issue 1998
• Landscape Planning – Environmental Applications, William Marsh
• Placing Nature, Culture, and Landscape Ecology, edited by Joan Nassaver
• The Meaning of Gardens, edited by Mark Francis and Randolph T. Hester
• A Moment on Earth, Gregg Easterbrook
• A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
• A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
• The Necessity for Ruins, John Brinckerhoff Jackson
• Reading the Landscape of America, May Theilgaard Watts
• Rural by Design, Randall Arendt
• A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
• Second Nature, Michael Pollan
• The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William H. Whyte
• Trees in Urban Design, Henry F. Arnold
• Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature, edited by William Cronon

Journals

• American Forests
• Architectural Record
• Environment and Behavior
• Historic Preservation
• Landscape Architecture
• Landscape Journal
• Places
• Restoration and Management Notes
• Urban Land

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