This course is intended to develop advanced writing and critical thinking skills for upper level students majoring in Landscape Architecture and Sustainable Community Development. Toward that goal, the course is structured around typical modes of writing that support this kind of work. This course fulfills the UMass Junior Year writing requirement.

Cities are dynamic organisms whose inhabitants require food, water, shelter, safety, commerce, leadership, and equity. For most people, the city can be a wonderful place to live in. For persons without privilege, the necessary goods and services that are require for a quality life may be lacking. In this course, students will note that every village, town, city, or mega-city has some type of challenge. By examining cities within a global context, students should recognize that any challenge can also be viewed as an opportunity for implementing positive change.

How the built environment is shaped by humans. The forces that go into developing human settlements, how these environments change, how different groups experience the environment, and how environmental designers work within this context. (Gen.Ed. I, U)

Introduction to the range of computer applications available for the environmental design professions. Site analysis techniques, computer aided design, and methods of data management on the computer.

This course is intended to develop advanced writing and critical thinking skills for upper level students majoring in Landscape Architecture and Sustainable Community Development. Toward that goal, the course is structured around typical modes of writing that support this kind of work. This course fulfills the UMass Junior Year writing requirement.

This course is intended to develop advanced writing and critical thinking skills for upper level students majoring in Landscape Architecture and Sustainable Community Development. Toward that goal, the course is structured around typical modes of writing that support this kind of work. This course fulfills the UMass Junior Year writing requirement.

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The satirical tradition in Scandinavian literature has a long and colorful history, nowhere more so than in Denmark. The rise of the Scandinavian welfare state over the last 100 years has done nothing to diminish the ardor with which authors take gleeful aim at what they perceive to be the failings and the burdens of governmental bureaucracy. In this class we will sample the writings of several of the most representative of the authors who delight in skewering