The Landscape Architecture Program

Mission and Objectives

The program's mission is to provide an equal educational opportunity of excellence to the constituent student population served, baccalaureate level instruction in the discipline of landscape architecture with a focus on solving physical design problems related to sustaining the natural resources and the enviroment, while improving the quality of human life.

Instructional knowledge is drawn from art, science and technology and focuses on analysis and synthesis, leading to graphic solutions of physical design (aesthetic, engineering and management) problems in the landscape.

Cooperative Extension/public service to the community focuses on providing physical design solutions (conceptual only) on an as-needed basis for public and institutional land uses. Executed projects enhance instruction by providing students with real problems, sites, and clients, while making the program and the discipline more a part of the community.

Research, creative works, and consulting of the faculty are as diverse as the backgrounds and broad interests of the faculty. These activities satisfy the mission of a comprehensive, land grant university. Topical areas focus on:

1. Traditional, funded, ornamental horticulture, research;

2. Contemporary cultural landscape interpretation (women and minorities);

3. Unbuilt landscapes exploration;

4. Technical landscape publications (irrigation and landscape management);

5. Historical cultural landscape interpretation, and;

6. Professional landscape architectural practice concerned with urban, institutional, and residential site planning and design problems. Again, these activities serve to strengthen the instructional program by providing the faculty with current data, experience and knowledge to bring to the classroom, as well as strengthen the program with its constituent agencies and professional community.

The program's objectives are:

1. To support the University's, school's, and department's roles as an historically black, comprehensive, land-grant institution in meeting their respective missions, objectives and goals.

2. To enhance awareness of and provide solutions to natural resources, environmental and quality of life problems related to land use in our state.

3. To expand opportunities in North Carolina for education in landscape architec- ture and to present landscape architecture as a viable career alternative to college-age African-Americans and other minorities.

4. To teach students to apply historic, aesthetic, and scientific principles to the research, design, planning and management of environments.

5. To prepare graduates for entry-level positions in private or public practice and prepare and encourage graduates to complete the national Landscape Architecture Registration Examination (L.A.R.E.) for state licensure.

6. To engage in creative works/research and public service related to landscape architecture.