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Spring Semester 2009
Location: Building B
Landscape Architecture Department
Instructor: G. Wayne Wilkerson
Lecture: 11:00-11:50 Tues and Thursday
Lab: 1:00 PM- 2:50 PM Tues and Thursday
Office: Room C117 Landscape Architecture Building
Office Hours: 2-3 PM Wed
Telephone: 325-7900
E-Mail: gww@ra.msstate.edu
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION: LA 2453 Site Inventory and Analysis, (Techniques and Use) (3)
(Prerequisite: none) One hour lecture and four hour lab. This course deals with the collection, analysis, and presentation of data as it relates to landscape planning and design.
DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT:
To foster the will and ability to plan, design, build, and maintain regenerative communities.
COURSE MISSION STATEMENT:
This is a course that is designed to assist students in the field of landscape architecture better understand factors that affect the location, type, and quality of land use change. Accomplishing this task requires a through understanding of landscape analysis, which can be defined "as a systematic approach to developing comprehensive, accurate, and efficient information about land and its resources." (Paul Anderson, 2001)
COURSE GOALS:
To develop an understanding of the relationship between man and nature.
To foster the ability to observe, document, analyze, and describe site conditions.
To understand how technology can be used to accomplish the previous goal.
To identify opportunities and constraints as they apply to site design.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
At the conclusion of this class students will demonstrate skills in the areas of:
Research
Verbal and Writing
Graphic Design
Critical Thinking
Use of Precedent
Process
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