The Ecological Landscape Planning and Design major integrates agroecological principles to the practices and profession of landscape design. Students learn the skills needed to meet current environmental challenges through a curriculum that includes ecology, soil science, horticulture, art, and landscape design.
There is a growing need for professionals who can design sustainable solutions for our natural and built environments.
This concentration is for you if:
- You are excited to design and plan places and systems for sustainable ecological and human communities at multiple scales.
- You are interested in the ways design can merge art and science.
- You love plants and want to learn more about how they fit into designed spaces.
- You want to help foster ecology and equity from urban to rural settings by designing planned landscapes that also restore natural processes and improve human livelihoods.