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The ten semester Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree is being replaced with an eleven-semester non-baccalaureate MLA degree program for undergraduate students.

Those undergraduate students applying to the landscape architecture program should go to the K-State Graduate Catalogue at http://www.k-state.edu/grad/catalog/lar.htm for more information.

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Advising/Mentoring

Each Landscape Architecture and Planning student is assigned an advisor/mentor.  As an advisor, the faculty member will provide guidance to the student in the selection of courses to assist them toward meeting their educational goals.  As a mentor, the faculty member will be available to discuss career opportunities, internship directions, provide suggested readings etc.  Students should inquire in the department office if they do not know the name of their advisor/mentor.
 

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Students Interests/Traits
Interests include...

• designing sustainable environments

• science, as it pertains to ecology, plants and soils
• art, related to creativity, form, beauty and aesthetics

• engineering, related to the sitting of buildings and

     organizing circulation patterns (roads, walks, bicycles)

     upon the land

• people, and the ability to work with and design for their needs

• an inquisitiveness about exploring and studying the design for outdoor spaces and the sustainability and management of the landscape

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Teaching Focus
Teaching  is focused on the development of:
   1. critical thinking processes related to resolving landscape design     
        and management issues
   2. an environmental ethic related to the sustainability of our cultural 
        and ecological resources
   3. methodologies for the continual discovery of knowledge in order

        for our graduates to be life long learners and leaders in the

        profession
   4. a learning environment to enable each student
 

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College of Architecture, Planning, and Design

Kansas State University

BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE              August 2005

ACCREDITED BY THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL ACCREDITATION BOARD