Vision
Our vision is for every landscape architecture student to graduate
prepared to plan and design with meaning, informed by the study
of culture, aesthetics and the environment, and with superior technical
competency.
Mission
The mission of the Department of Landscape Architecture is to advance
the ethical, creative, and skillful application of the arts and
the sciences in planning, designing, implementing and managing landscapes
of all types. The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture seeks excellence
primarily through teaching and service. The Master of Landscape
Architecture additionally emphasizes research.
Goals
1. Promote long-term diversity and stability, ecologically and culturally
- Promote the diverse yet integrated nature of landscape planning,
design and management.
- Build upon the special ecological and cultural characteristics
and issues of the state of Florida, with recognition of the
larger region and world.
- Integrate the rich ecological and cultural resources of the
state and region into coursework
- Attract and retain quality faculty with diverse strengths,
interests, and experiences
- Attract and retain quality students with diverse backgrounds,
experiences, and professional goals
- Present the diversity of practice possible in the profession
of landscape architecture through lectures, studios, speakers,
internships, library, etc.
- Maintain technological and practice currency while keeping
an eye to the future
- Enhance research and instruction related to the creation,
management, and repair of environments ranging from wilderness
to urban
2. Advance landscape architecture as the creative connection between
culture and nature, through research, teaching, creative works,
and service
- Provide students with broad general education and specialized
courses that lead to specific application of ecological and
cultural theories in their work
- Emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of landscape architectural
practice and its knowledge base, and, where feasible, promote
interdisciplinary work
- Ensure that the ethics, attitudes, and values associated with
design theory, principles, and skills have their grounding in
the physical and natural sciences, the fine arts, and human
behavior
- Provide students with diverse learning experiences that test
critical thinking as well as the knowledge and skills of the
profession
- Allow individualized exploration of student interests within
appropriate expectations of professional work
