Graduate Project Development
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This course is intended to prepare students for the major design-planning phases of their graduation design project. The course focuses on enlarging the students’ understanding of their particular topic’s theoretical focus, including an understanding of the various quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches that are possible and the kinds of knowledge that are needed to gain insight into the people and the site that define their place/topic of inquiry. The course also represents a major opportunity for students to reflect and expand upon their understanding of the nature of the design activity including the notions of design as an iterative process, an act of critical inquiry, a dialectical process, and as a social actAt the end of this course students will have completed their theoretical research, precedent studies, and general study approach-methodology. They will also have selected a mentor and site, undertaken a preliminary site analysis and developed a general program for the project. In short, the focus of and background needed for the graduation projects are well underway by the conclusion of the class.
Prerequisite: LARC 525
Instructor: Landscape Architecture Faculty, Varies