Master of Arts in Landscape Studies Curriculum
The Master of Arts in Landscape Studies (M.A.L.S.) provides professionals in the planning, design, conservation, care, and study of designed landscapes with skills necessary to create small, intimate private gardens to larger public spaces. Students learn the skills required for engaging in creative and innovative landscape design processes that express society’s aesthetic, philosophical, and practical relationships with the land and nature. The curriculum draws upon other disciplines, including horticulture and ecology, visual arts, cultural and literary studies, philosophy, history, and geography to contribute different perspectives on landscape. Emphasis across the curriculum provides motivated students with opportunities to develop an understanding of landscape issues and explore landscape ideologies and strategies that will enable them to practice as creative and sustainably responsible professionals.
