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ACM Program Description: |
The University of Kentucky offers the only undergraduate degree in the Commonwealth of Kentucky accredited by the national Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board. Our four-year degree program includes a professional internship and an education abroad experience. You can enter the program as a freshman or as a transfer student and competitive scholarships are available. Students are stimulated to be creative when designing human focused environments in the context of ecological and social systems. In small classroom/studio settings, faculty work closely with students on landscape architectural design projects that are ecologically relevant, socially beneficial, and artful, as well as functional. Our graduates are making a difference in people's lives as creative professionals in private
practice, public agencies, and academic institutions around the world.
There are several distinguishing characteristics of our program. Our students have 24/7 access to his/her personal work space in the E.S. Good Barn that includes wired and wireless Internet as well as digital input/output devices. Progressive learning takes place when students experience the issues they study about in the classroom as well as real world experiences away from campus. As part of the program you should expect to learn from regional, national, and international field study and internships. Students work on site design, urban design, and community planning projects with community partners simulating a professional work environment. Our campus, city, and state are integral part of the learning space. Students are often involved with implementing course related construction projects all the way to redesigning a city/region for the year 2100! Major courses are taught by full-time internationally recognized faculty focused on undergraduate education in a relatively small department of a large university in a vibrant city with nearby outdoor recreational activities. We are served by two interstate highways and an airport minutes from campus with typically direct flights from Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, New York, Chicago, and others. |
