Landscape Architecture, BSLA

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Courses (60 credits)

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (53-54 credits)

• AGR 10100 - Introduction To The College Of Agriculture And Purdue University
• AGR 12000 - Introduction To Horticulture And Landscape Architecture Academic Programs
• ASM 21600 - Introduction To Surveying
• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I ♦
• HORT 21700 - Woody Landscape Plants
• HORT 31700 - Landscape Contracting And Management
• MA 15800 - Precalculus- Functions And Trigonometry (satsifies Quantitative Reasoning Selective for core)

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• AGRY 12500 - Environmental Science And Conservation ♦ or
• EAPS 12500 - Environmental Science And Conservation ♦ or
• FNR 12500 - Environmental Science And Conservation ♦ or
• NRES 12500 - Environmental Science And Conservation ♦

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• BIOL 11100 - Fundamentals Of Biology II ♦ or
• BTNY 11000 - Introduction To Plant Science ♦

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• Written Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00-4.00 (satisfies Written Communication and Information Literacy for core) 

• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition ♦ or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition ♦

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• Oral Communication Selectives - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Oral Communication for core)

• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication or
• COM 21700 - Science Writing And Presentation or
• EDPS 31500 - Collaborative Leadership: Interpersonal Skills or
• SCLA 10200 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication II: Modern World

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• Economics Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Human Culture Behavioral/Social Science for core)

• AGEC 20300 - Introductory Microeconomics For Food And Agribusiness or
• AGEC 20400 - Introduction To Resource Economics And Environmental Policy or
• AGEC 21700 - Economics or
• ECON 21000 - Principles Of Economics or
• ECON 25100 - Microeconomics or
• ECON 25200 - Macroeconomics

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• Art & Design Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Art & Design Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Mathematics or Sciences Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Human Cultures: Humanities Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities or Social Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities or Social Science Selective (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Written or Oral Communications Selection (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

Electives (6-7 credits)

• Electives - Credit Hours: 6.00-7.00

College of Agriculture & University Level Requirements

• 2.00 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• 32 Upper division credits taken from Purdue
• College of Agriculture International Understanding Selective   - Credit Hours: 9.00
• College of Agriculture Multicultural Awareness Selective   - Credit Hours: 3.00
• College of Agriculture Humanities or Social Science Selectives    (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

• Humanities or Social Science Selectives   (Choose from outside the College of Agriculture) - Credit Hours: 9.00
• College of Agriculture Written or Oral Communication Selectives   (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

University Core Requirements

For a complete listing of University Core Course Selectives, visit the University Senate Website.

• Human Cultures: Behavioral/Social Science (BSS)
• Human Cultures: Humanities (HUM)
• Information Literacy (IL)
• Oral Communication (OC)
• Quantitative Reasoning (QR)
• Science #1 (SCI)
• Science #2 (SCI)
• Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
• Written Communication (WC)

Program Requirements

Notes

2.0 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.

** Students in Landscape Architecture fulfill the foundational mathematics requirement by (1) completing MA 15800 or higher or (2) completing STAT 30100.  Enrolling in STAT 30100 requires either successfully completing MA 15300 and MA 15400 or taking the advanced credit examination for MA 15300 and MA 15400 to establish competency.  Three (3) credits of MA 15300 or MA 15400 may be used as an unrestricted elective in the College of Agriculture Undergraduate plans of study, but may not be used as Mathematics and Sciences selective.

Consultation with an advisor may result in an altered plan customized for an individual student.

Change of Option from Pre-landscape Architecture to the Professional Landscape Architecture Program

Pre-landscape architecture students, who wish to continue into the landscape architecture professional program, or transfer students from other institutions, must qualify by meeting the following criteria, or through further assessment as described below:

1. Overall GPA - The student must be in good academic standing. A minimum overall GPA of 2.5 across all Purdue and transferred credit coursework is necessary for acceptance into the landscape architecture professional program.

2. Grade point average of 3.0 or higher in all landscape architecture prefixed courses taken (LA Index).

3. Completion of LA 10600; or 11600 and 21600; or approved equivalent, and a minimum of 24 credit hours of Purdue accepted college level coursework are the minimum necessary for acceptance into the landscape architecture professional program.

World Language Courses

World Language proficiency requirements vary by program. The following list is inclusive of all world languages PWL offers for credit; for acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor.

ASL-American Sign Language	ARAB-Arabic	CHNS-Chinese	FR-French
GER-German	GREK-Greek (ancient)	HEBR-Hebrew (Biblical)	HEBR-Hebrew (modern)
ITAL-Italian	JPNS-Japanese	KOR-Korean	LATN-Latin
PTGS-Portuguese	RUSS-Russian	SPAN-Spanish

Critical Course

The ♦ course is considered critical.

In alignment with the Degree Map Guidance for Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities, published by the Commission for Higher Education (pursuant to HEA 1348-2013), a Critical Course is identified as “one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.  Students who want to be nurses, for example, should know that they are expected to be proficient in courses like biology in order to be successful.  These would be identified by the institutions for each degree program”. 

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