Master In Landscape Architecture II

The two-year, post‐professional Master in Landscape Architecture (MLA II) degree program is for those who hold an undergraduate professional landscape architecture degree or its equivalent. The MLA II augments that professional preparation with a particular emphasis on the design of the built environment at the intersection of urbanization and ecology, providing those who have already demonstrated professional competence with the opportunity to advance their critical, theoretical,representational, and technical skills through design. A candidate will be recommended for the Master in Landscape Architecture as a post-professional degree upon satisfactory completion of 80 units in the following course of study:

First Term
0 units GSD 1211 Pre‐Term Workshop (August)
8 units GSD 1211 Landscape Architecture III (studio)
4 units GSD 2241 Landscape Representation III
4 units GSD 3241 Theories of Landscape as Urbanism
4 units GSD 9641 MLA Proseminar

Second Term
8 units Studio Option*
4 units GSD 3242 Theories of Landscape Architecture
8 units electives

Third Term
8 units Studio Option*
12 units electives
or
8 units Studio Option
4 units GSD 9341 Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal
8 units electives

Fourth Term
8 units Studio Option*
12 units electives
or
12 units GSD 9342 Design Thesis in Landscape Architecture
8 units Electives

*A minimum of one studio option must be taken from those offered by the Department of Landscape Architecture