Course Descriptions
Summer 2024 |Fall 2024 | Winter 2025| Spring 2025 | Summer 2025 | Previous Courses
Check out the Department’s general course descriptions on our main website. Detailed descriptions of current and upcoming courses, as well as a tentative list of the full year of course offerings, also are posted on the wall outside of Lawrence 230.
For the most up-to-date course listings by term, check the UO Schedule of Classes.
Summer 2024
Landscape Architecture Courses
All Courses
| LA 390 | Urban Farm (Harper Keeler) |
| LA 408/508 | Wrk Overlook Studio (David Buckley Borden) |
| LA 408/508 | Wrk Overlook Studio Fuller Studio: Reclamation (Ignacio López Busón, Mary Polites ) |
| LA 608 | Wrk LA Foundations (Jeff Krueger, Peter Olson, Holly Phares) |
| LA XXX | Title (TBA) |
Fall 2024
Landscape Architecture Courses
| LA 260 | Understanding Landscapes (Michael Geffel) |
| LA 326 | Plants: Fall (Kelly Densmore) |
| LA 301 | Intro ENVD Careers (Ben Shirtcliff) |
| LA 390 | Urban Farm (Harper Keeler) |
| LA 410/510 | Foundation Lecture for ENVD Studio (Kory Russel) |
| LA 410/510 | Global Sustainability: Waste and the City (Yekang Ko) |
| LA 413/513 | Analyzing Land Systems (Gwynne Mhuireach) |
| LA 450/550 | Advanced Landscape Media Evolutionary Landscapes (Ignacio López Busón) |
| LA 450/550 | Environmental Data Visualization (Jun Lee) |
| LA 450/550 | Drawing the Landscape (Caleb Melchior) |
| LA 441/541 | Princ Applied Ecology (Ellee Stapleton) |
| LA 451/551 | Landscape Media I (Arica Duhrkoop-Galas) |
| LA 451/551 | ENVD Landscape Media Introduction to Visual Communications (Peter Olsen) |
| LA 459/559 | 3D Mapping with LiDAR (Jun Lee) |
| LA 464/564 | Materials I: Fall Plants & Ecosystems (Arica Duhrkoop-Galas ) |
| LA 474/574 | History of Landscape Arch I (Laurie Matthews) |
| LA 699 (610) | Terminal Project Masters Clinic (Yekang Ko) |
Design Studios
| LA 289 | Foundations for ENVD Majors (Kory Russel) Co-Req LA 410 Foundation Lecture for ENVD Studio |
| LA 439 | Land Arch Des & Proc Reimagining Agate Playground (Honeyman, Joan) |
| LA 639 | Land Arch Des & Proc Coastal Natures (Ignacio López Busón) |
| LA 489/589 | Site Planning & Design Oregon Sequence: Reimagining McMinneville’s Library in the Park (David Phillips) Register for PHANTOM studio during priority registration |
| LA 489/589 | Site Planning & Design Sovereign Flows-Healing Flows (Alaa Suliman Hamid) Register for PHANTOM studio during priority registration |
| LA 494 | Land Planning & Design Comprehensive Project I (Mark Eischeid) |
| LA 694 | Land Planning & Design Refugia by Design/Cultural Lanscapes for the 21st Century (Michael Geffel and Caleb Melchoir) |
Winter 2025
Landscape Architecture Courses
| LA 301 | Environmental Design Careers Section 1 Section 2 (Ben Shirtcliff) ENVD Majors Only |
| LA 337 | Top Pacific NW Forest (Arica Duhrkoop-Galas) |
| LA 337 | Des Sustainable World (Kory Russel) |
| LA 350 | LA Media Analogue (Caleb Melchior) |
| LA 390 | Winter at Urban Farm (Harper Keeler) |
| LA 407/507 | Sem Spatial Justice Park and Open Space Equity (Ellee Stapleton) |
| LA 407/507 | Sem Cultural Landscapes (Laurie Matthews) |
| LA 407/507 | Sem National Parks (Noah Kerr) |
| LA 410/510 | Sust Design Principles and Practice (Kory Russell) Asynchronous |
| LA 415/515 | GIS in Landscape Architecture (Junhak Lee) Asynchronous |
| LA 429/529 | Civic Agriculture (Harper Keeler) |
| LA 450/550 | Environmental Data Visualization (Junhak Lee) Asynchronous |
| LA 451/551 | ENVD Landscape Media (Peter Olson) Asynchronous Lecture ENVD Majors Only |
| LA 452/552 | Landscape Media II (Kim K) |
| LA 462/562 | Professional Practice (John Anderson) |
| LA 465/565 | LA Materials & Construction Materials II (Arica Duhrkoop-Galas) |
| LA 475/575 | History of Landscape Architecture II (Mark Eischeid) |
| LA 620 | Landscape Research Methods (Gwynne Mhuireach) |
Design Studios
| LA 289 | LA Arch Design (Sarah Loquist) |
| LA 289 | LA Arch Design (Peter Olsen) |
| LA 289 | Foundations II ENVD (Peter Olsen) ENVD Majors Only |
| LA 439/639 | LA Arch Des & Proc Caminos Del Agua (Ignacio López Busón) |
| LA 489/589 | Site Plan & Dsgn TBA (Aala Hamid) |
| LA 489/589 | Site Planning & Design TBA (David Philips) |
| LA 699 | Masters Project (Noah Kerr) |
Spring 2025
Landscape Architecture Courses
| LA 227 | Intro to Landscape Architecture (Yekang Ko) |
| LA 289 | Space and Place Making (Peter Olson and Sara Loquist) |
| LA 328 | Spring Plants (Kelly Densmore) |
| LA 352 | Intro to Visual Communications (Liska Chan and Peter Olson) Pre-LA Majors only |
| LA 390 | Urban Farm (Harper Keeler) |
| LA 407/507 | Sem Environmental Art (Kim Karlsrud) |
| LA 407/507 | Sem Dsgn Wrtng Tactics (Caleb Melchior) |
| LA 407/507 | Working with Novel Ecosystems (Daniel Phillips) |
| LA 408/508 | Field-Work: Research for Cultural Landscapes (Noah Kerr) |
| LA 440/540 | Intro Landsc Plan Ana (Yekang Ko) |
| LA 450/550 | Adv CAD (Alaa Suliman Hamid) |
| LA 453/553 | Landscape Media III (Jigisha Modi) |
| LA 453 | ENVD LA Media III (Peter Olson) Environmental Design Majors Only |
| LA 459/559 | Top Sensing the Enviro (Jun Hak Lee) |
| LA 466/566 | LA Mat + Constr III (Arica Duhrkoop-Galas) |
| LA 472/572 | Top Environmental Communication Theory: In Principle and Practice (David Buckley Borden) |
| LA 472/572 | Top Overlook Seminar (TBA) |
| LA 472/572 | Landscape Architecture of the North American West: Barbara Fealy (Mark Eischeid) |
| LA 503 | Thesis (TBA) |
| LA 601 | Research (TBA) |
| LA 603 | Dissertation (TBA) |
| LA 605 | Special Problems (TBA) |
| LA 606 | Practicum (TBA) |
| LA 606 | Prac Uni Teaching (TBA) |
| LA 621 | Research Methods II (Gwynne Mhuireach) |
Design Studios
| LA 289 | LA Arch Design (Peter Olson and Sara Loquist) |
| LA 439 | LA Arch Des & Proc (John Anderson) |
| LA 489/589 | Site Planning & Design (Alaa Suliman Hamid, Daniel Phillips) |
| LA 610 (699) | Masters Terminal Project Clinic (Ellee Stapleton) |
| LA 639 | Forest Ranch: Natural Area Planning and Design Studio (Jeff Krueger) |
Summer 2025
Landscape Architecture Courses Soon to Come
All Courses
| LA xxx | Title (TBA) |
| LA xxx | Title (TBA) |
| LA xxx | Title (TBA) |
| LA xxx | Title (TBA) |
| LA xxx | Title (TBA) |