Final Culminating Experience Documentation & Presentation

Catalog description

In this course students shall prepare final documentation of their research-based design project, and make a public presentation/defense of their project's relevance, research/inquiry methods, design approach, and findings. LARCH 553 is the third of three courses that will lead to the student's final culminating experience (FCE) for the Master of Landscape Architecture degree. A successful FCE, typically a capstone project, will research in the frontiers of knowledge in the field of landscape architecture. The form and specific criteria for a capstone project will be determined by the student and adviser, in consultation with the landscape architecture graduate professor-in-charge. This documentation and presentation course is an advanced landscape research or research and design course which will culminate in the presentation of scholarly products required for the conferral of a Master of Landscape Architecture degree.