Associate of Science - Landscape Architecture

Designed to provide skills and training to students in landscape architecture. The field requires two distinct areas of knowledge, one based on a solid background in the horticultural sciences and the other based on design theory backed by an ability to express designs graphically in a professional manner. The program will train students for entry-level employment in local landscape architecture firms, allow students to start their own landscape design/construction businesses, or allow transfer to a four-year institution with the eventual goal of becoming a licensed landscape architect.

Program Student Learning Outcomes: • Graduates of this program will assess the needs of a landscape design project, present those needs and solutions to the class, and defend their design ideas.

• Graduates of this program will have actively participated in round-table discussions of various design theories, their applicable uses in the environment, and will assess how they have incorporated others ideas into their design philosophies. • Graduates of this program will work together during group projects, group presentations, and work together in defending the group’s ideas and designs.