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  • LNS 411: Design Studio I: Methods and Processes

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This foundation studio provides an overview of the art and philosophy of landscape design. Students begin to learn the verbal and graphic vocabulary to articulate and conceptually express approaches to the art world and landscape design. Students explore how space and form are created and how they articulate meanings and functions. Studio exercises place an emphasis on learning how to generate design ideas, giving aesthetic and functional form to creative concepts.
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  • LNS 412: Applied Design Studio II: Principles and Practices

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    In this course students learn to analyze, synthesize, and assimilate contextual and site-specific information into the development and presentation of creative design solutions for specific landscape projects at different scales. These projects lead to an understanding of design problem definition; program development; and site analysis and inventory as essential elements in the design process. Cross-listed as ENV 412. Prerequisite(s): LNS 411 and 415 Prerequisite:    LNS411 AND LNS415
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  • LNS 415: Drafting and Graphic Representation

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This studio develops graphic literacy as a language and philosophy for observation, analysis, expression, and presentation of landscape design. Students are introduced to a number of techniques and methods of drawing used by landscape designers including: freehand drawing, colored pencils, markers, and mechanical drafting through exercises. Additional work is spent on values, colors, palettes, and shadowing techniques that culminate in a final studio project. Additional Fee(s): Applied Art Fee.
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  • LNS 421: Plants and Design I

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This course introduces students to the art of designing landscape spaces with plant material. This study of outdoor space concentrates on exploring landscape character as a product of the relationship of spaces that people observe and occupy to the plants and architectural masses that define these spaces. The course explores the abstract relationship of mass, height, distance, perception of texture, and color in plant groupings. Students learn to recognize woody plants for their structural and visual qualities, growing conditions, plant spacing, and growth rates to generate detailed planting plants. Prerequisite(s): LNS 411, 415 or permission of the instructor. Additional Fee: Course Computing Fee. Prerequisite:    LAR516 AND LNS411 AND LNS415
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  • LNS 422: Plants and Design II

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    In this studio, students are introduced to the concepts of ecological design and planning at a number of scales - from residential to urban space. They explore the systems approach to design, concerning both site ecology and enhancement of the site, which include the science and the art of ecological design. Through critical reflection, students are encouraged to go beyond mechanical and prescriptive responses to arrive at solutions that harmonize aesthetic form and ecological functioning. Prerequisite(s): LNS 411, 412, 415 and 421. Prerequisite:    LNS411 AND LNS412 AND LNS415 AND LNS421
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  • LNS 423: Plant Propagation Laboratory

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This course focuses on the principles and practical methods of the propagation of horticultural, herbaceous, and woody plants as they relate to commercial propagation. Principles of sexual and asexual vegetative propagation are covered. Students gain practical experience in a tissue culture laboratory that specializes in hard-to-propagate plants. Cross-listed as Biology 323. Prerequisite(s): BIO 224 or permission of the instructor. Additional fee(s): Laboratory fee. Prerequisite:    BIO224
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  • LNS 424: Field Botany

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This course introduces students to the concepts and skills needed to identify plants, make practical and scientific collections, and understand the ecological and evolutionary relationships between major plant families. It includes field trips, class/laboratory work, and several research projects, including the generation of a dichotomous plant key and plant collection. Prerequisite(s): BIO 224 or permission of the instructor. Prerequisite:    BIO224
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  • LNS 431: Survey of the History of Landscape Design

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    The landscape traditions of the Western and Eastern worlds are surveyed from antiquity to the present. The course explores the relationships between designed landscape forms within each culture as well as the political, social, philosophical, and artistic factors that could have determined and influenced the designed landscape. This course draws attention to the fundamental notion that landscape design is both an invention and cultural representation of landscape.
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  • LNS 451: Soil Science

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    Soils are studied as natural bodies, media for plant growth, and ecosystem components. Topics include soil morphology and characteristics, composition, formation, conservation, and soil erosion. Physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil are related to the production of plants; the functioning of hydrologic and nutrient cycles; and the protection of environmental quality. Prerequisite(s): ENV 129 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Prerequisite:    ENV129
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  • LNS 453: Ornamental Horticulture

    3.00 Credits
    Chatham University

    This course introduces students to plant biology and relates this science to practical applications in horticulture. It develops a general understanding of the botanical concepts of plant structure, physiology, function, growth, reproduction, and evolutionary diversity. In addition, students are introduced to the horticultural concepts and practices of plant propagation, transplantation, care, and management of ornamental plants.
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