Educational Programs
Landscape Architecture
The BAC is accepting applications for Spring 2011 for all onsite degree programs. The spring semester begins on Monday, January 24 2011.
Landscape Architecture
The BAC is pleased to offer the first professional degrees in landscape architecture at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Both beginning and advanced placement students are encouraged to apply. As one of a small number of institutions across the United States offering professional degrees in the three major design disciplines (architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture), the BAC is uniquely positioned to apply its model of concurrent design education to the study of sustainable landscape.
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
The BLA program of study is six years, with some summer course work, with 126 academic credits and 45 practice credits required. The program has three segments covering the curricular areas of design, visual studies, history and theory, technology and management, arts and sciences, and general electives.
Master of Landscape Architecture
The MLA program of study is five years, with some summer course work, 96 academic credits and 45 practice credits required. The program is comprised of foundation design courses in drafting, design media, geology, plant materials and ecology, a construction sequence for technical preparation, design studios targeted to the concepts and challenges unique to the practice of landscape architecture, and a final thesis.
The city of Boston is utilized as an urban laboratory to explore and research issues of sustainable urban landscape promoting inquiry that includes practice-based and practice oriented research.
For more information, contact Paige Manning in Admissions at 617-585-0137 or
Kevin Benham, Interim Head of the School of Landscape Architecture, at 617 585-7345.
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