Northeastern University offers a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. This new major reflects a growing public interest in making our cities more sustainable and in bringing the insights of landscape architects to join those of urban designers and architects. This hybrid field has deep roots in design, ecology, planning, and aesthetics. In the past 15 years, it has come to play an evermore important role in the design of new places, as well as the retrofitting of our older, postindustrial landscapes. An inherently interdisciplinary program, urban landscape will involve collaborations with other academic units on campus.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
NUpath requirements Natural and Designed World (ND), Creative Expression/Innovation (EI), Interpreting Culture (IC), Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ), Societies and Institutions (SI), Analyzing and Using Data (AD), and Difference and Diversity (DD) are met through the major course requirements.
NUpath requirement Ethical Reasoning (ER) must be met through general electives.
Landscape Architecture Major Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to College | ||
| ARCH 1000 | Architecture at Northeastern | 1 |
| Calculus | ||
| MATH 1241 | Calculus 1 | 4 |
| Environmental Geology | ||
| ENVR 2200 | Earth's Changing Cycles | 4 |
| Foundation Courses | ||
| ARCH 1110 | Fundamental Architectural Representation | 4 |
| ARCH 1120 | Fundamental Architectural Design | 6 |
| History/Theory Courses | ||
| ARCH 1310 and ARCH 1311 | Buildings and Cities, A Global History and Recitation for ARCH 1310 | 4 |
| LARC 2330 | Cities, Landscape, and Modern Culture | 4 |
| LARC 2340 | Cities, Landscape, and Contemporary Culture | 4 |
| LARC 5310 | Urban Landscape Seminar | 4 |
| Technology/Science Courses | ||
| ENVR 3300 and ENVR 3301 | Geographic Information Systems and Lab for ENVR 3300 | 5 |
| LARC 2230 | Introduction to Sustainable Site Planning and Design | 4 |
| LARC 2430 | Plants, People, and Landscape Change | 4 |
| LARC 2240 | Sustainable Site Construction and Detailing | 4 |
| LARC 5210 | Landscape Ecology | 4 |
| LARC 5220 | Sustainable Landscape Practices | 4 |
| LARC 5420 | Professional Practice in Landscape Architecture | 4 |
| Design | ||
| LARC 2130 | Sustainable Urban Site Design | 6 |
| LARC 2140 | Designed Urban Ecologies | 6 |
| LARC 2440 | Planting Design | 4 |
| LARC 3170 | Landscape Planning and Urbanism Studio | 6 |
| LARC 5110 | Advanced Design for Urban Environments Studio | 6 |
| LARC 5120 | Comprehensive Design Studio | 6 |
| Professional Development | ||
| EEAM 2000 | Professional Development for Co-op | 1 |
| Cooperative Education | ||
| Urban landscape majors are required to complete one six-month co-op. | 0 | |
| Co-op Work Experience | ||
Major GPA Requirement
Minimum 2.500 GPA required
Major Credit Requirement
Complete 98 semester hours for the major.
Program Requirement
142 total semester hours required
Four Years, One Co-op in Spring/Summer 1
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ARCH 1000 | 1 | ARCH 1110 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Vacation | 0 |
| ARCH 1310 and ARCH 1311 | 4 | ARCH 1120 | 6 | Elective | 4 | ||
| MATH 1241 | 4 | ENGW 1111 | 4 | ||||
| ENVR 2200 | 4 | EEAM 2000 | 1 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 17 | 19 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| LARC 2130 | 6 | LARC 2140 | 6 | Optional Summer Co-op | Optional Summer Co-op | ||
| LARC 2430 | 4 | LARC 2240 | 4 | ||||
| LARC 2330 | 4 | LARC 2440 | 4 | ||||
| LARC 2230 | 4 | LARC 2340 | 4 | ||||
| 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| LARC 3170 | 6 | Co-op | Co-op 1 | Elective | 4 | ||
| ENGW 3314 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| LARC 5210 | 4 | ||||||
| ENVR 3300 and ENVR 3301 | 5 | ||||||
| 19 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| LARC 5110 | 6 | LARC 5120 | 6 | ||||
| LARC 5220 | 4 | LARC 5420 | 4 | ||||
| LARC 5310 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 18 | 18 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 143 | |||||||