Identification, morphology and use of landscape plants including annuals, perennials, woody shrubs and trees, evergreens and groundcovers. Topics include horticultural practices including pruning, division, pollination, bulb planting, plant identification and landscape design. Field trips are an important component of the course. Course requirements include a design project and field guide. BIO 120 must be taken concurrently. Enrollment limited to 15 per section.

Identification, morphology and use of landscape plants including annuals, perennials, woody shrubs and trees, evergreens and groundcovers. Topics include horticultural practices including pruning, division, pollination, bulb planting, plant identification and landscape design. Field trips are an important component of the course. Course requirements include a design project and field guide. BIO 120 must be taken concurrently. Enrollment limited to 15 per section.

Identification, culture, and use of ornamental landscape plants including annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees and plants for interior design. Topics include introduction to landscape maintenance and design, garden history, and current issues such as invasive species and wetland restoration. Course requirements include class presentations and papers. Laboratory (BIO 121) must be taken concurrently. Enrollment limited to 30.

For juniors and seniors, admission by permission of the Global South Development Studies Advisory Board. Can only be taken once to count toward the minor.

The culminating experience for the book studies concentration is an independent research project that synthesizes the student?s academic and practical experiences. The student?s concentration adviser will serve as the sponsor for the project; topics for this capstone project is decided in concert with the student's adviser and vetted by the concentration?s director. The seminar will meet once each week to discuss methodology and progress on the independent projects and to discuss general readings in book studies theory and praxis.

Note: ARS 388 or ARS 389/LSS 389 will fulfill the ARS 388 advanced studio requirement for Plan C (Architecture) of the Art major at Smith College. This class is intended for students who have taken introductory landscape studios and are interested in exploring more sophisticated projects. It is also for Architecture + Urbanism majors who have a strong interest in landscape architecture or urban design.

Same as LSS 389. This class is intended for students who have taken introductory landscape studios and are interested in exploring more sophisticated projects. It is also for architecture plus urbanism majors who have a strong interest in landscape architecture or urban design. In a design studio format, the students will analyze and propose interventions for the built environment on a broad scale, considering multiple factors (including ecological, economic, political, sociological and historical) in their engagement of the site.

Topics course. This course considers the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through an international relations lens, exploring how the region broadly interacts with the rest of the world. The aim is to introduce students to the diversity of challenges facing the region and give students the tools for a more substantive analysis of its ever-changing context.

This course investigates and evaluates contemporary South Korean popular culture and the 21st-century cultural phenomenon called hallyu (Korean Wave). It considers the popularity of the Wave and the backlash against it both in East Asia and globally. It raises the issue of how film, television, music, manhwa (comic books), sports and the Internet participate in the transnational production and circulation of culture, identity, modernity, tradition, ideology and politics. The course equips students with analytical tools to critically think about and understand popular culture.

A survey of the genre from its beginnings in the political and artistic avant-garde movements of Europe at the turn of the 20th century through contemporary American conceptual bookworks. In particular, the course will examine the varieties of form and expression used by book artists and the relationships between these artists and the sociocultural, literary and graphic environments from which they emerged.