Collaborating with architects, city planners, civil engineers and other professionals, landscape architects play an important role in environmental sustainability by designing and implementing projects that respect both the needs of people and of our environment. Therefore, landscape architects must be able to understand the process of nature and impact human settlement has on ecosystems. This requires professionals to manage storm water, select appropriate plant material, and anticipate human impact all with an eye on a sustainable and more resilient future.The goal of the Landscape Architecture Program is to nurture responsible citizens to address the complexity of world issues that face our discipline through creative and transformational design. Students will:

• achieve academic excellence so qualities of intellectual curiosity, open communication, personal responsibility, collegiality and the skills to work individually and with other’s are held to rigorously high standards;
• receive the educational foundation for a professional career instilled with insightful design and planning ability, key technical skills, ethical judgment, and an ever-enhancing understanding of landscape architecture; and
• be grounded in a broad base of knowledge within the curriculum, emphasizing connections among subjects that relate to and inform landscape architecture, thereby enabling investigative and problem-solving on all scales in a creative manner.