Our studies focus on compelling issues inherent to the urban, suburban, rural, and wilderness environments of the Rocky Mountain region. The insights and possibilities generated from these local studies provide an understanding of landscape design that is transferable at many scales and to other lands and cultures. We aim to link theory with practice, history with change, technology with invention, and designers with their constituents. The curriculum prepares students for landscape architectural practice and research as presently known, and provides the setting to question, invent, test, and advance knowledge and capability of the profession. It consists of sequential and integrated design studios, core lecture and seminar courses, and elective opportunities, including a professional internship.
Students develop capabilities in design within studio courses.
Core themes, theories, precedents, technologies, and skills of the profession are developed in the lecture and seminar courses. Curriculum integration is achieved through deliberate internal coordination efforts and collaboration with other programs within the College as well as other CU-Denver colleges and schools. The curriculum provides opportunities that facilitate the offering and testing of new courses, which respond to timely interests of faculty and students. Professional practitioners representing consulting firms and governmental agencies of regional, national, and international distinction share in and contribute to the life of the program. They teach courses, participate in reviews, host internships and office visits, give presentations, exhibit their works, and mentor with students and faculty.