Summer Quarter

The Department of Landscape Architecture is pleased to provide the following summer courses for 2011. Current students looking for electives, prospective students interested in the landscape architecture program, and individuals seeking educational enrichment opportunities are welcome to enroll. Some courses run for only half of the summer quarter while others last the whole term. The quarter ends in late August, leaving ample time for a break before classes resume in the autumn.

This year the following classes will be offered:

• LARCH 300: Introduction to Landscape Architecture (6 credits) VLPA
  Full Term: June 20 – Aug. 19
  MWF 1:10pm-4:50pm, Gould 312A
  
  This course introduces students to the history, design process and environmental concerns pertaining to the field of landscape architecture. Through course assignments, students will acquire design and graphic skills for the development of analysis, conceptual and representational drawings. Students will engage in critiques that encourage an understanding of design values and build fundamental verbal and graphic communication skills
  
  Course Instructor: Iain M. Robertson
  
  This is a prerequisite course for students applying to the BLA program.

• LARCH 498A/598A Reading the Elwah: Exploring social, cultural, and biophysical transitions in the Elwah Watershed (4 credits)
  Partial B Term: July 21 planning mtg, July 25 - July 29 Field trip
  
  This field-based course will examine the social and cultural transitions that have occurred within the biophysical context of the watershed over the past 150 years. Students enrolled in this course will travel to the Olympic Peninsula and spend five days tracing the river course of the Elwha River by reading and recording their observations. Students will be camping at designated sites and are asked to bring their own provisions. Transportation will be provided.
  
  Course Instructor: Ken Yocom
  
  Please contact instructor at kyocom@uw.edu for more information and to receive an add code. Downoad course flyer

• LARCH 598G Politics of Public Space(3 credits)
  A-Term: June 20-July 20
  TTh 9:40am-12:40P Gould 440
  
  This advanced seminar offers an exciting opportunity to engage in discussion and debate about the complex dynamics of public space. While the focus will be primarily on urban public space, in addressing fundamental issues of diversity, power, and conflicts over use and meanings of space, this course will also address how these dynamics play out in the use and management of public lands.
  
  Course Instructor: Lynne Manzo
  
  Please contact instructor at lmanzo@uw.edu for more information and to receive an add code. Downoad course flyer

To register, go to http://www.summer.washington.edu/summer. For more information on specific Landscape Architecture courses, please contact Kelley Pagano