It has strict standards by which student internships are initiated and completed. The Department of Environmental Design, through its advising office, manages landscape architecture internships in conjunction with individual faculty members. While not an absolute requirement for graduation, internships with private or public practitioners are strongly recommended for landscape architecture students. Most students will complete at least one internship before graduation. The excellent record of our program and previous student interns from UCD causes numerous professional offices to continually seek our students as interns year after year.
Many internships develop into full-time employment.
The campus in general and the program in particular maintain a course status which allows individuals or groups of students to pursue directed study under one or more faculty members. Topics for directed study courses may come from either students or the faculty member. The course designation frequently allows students an opportunity to learn more about a particular faculty member's emphasis area or a subcategory of landscape architecture of interest to the student. In this class, a study guide is available for each unit. Computers are an integral component of the curriculum in landscape architecture.