Landscape Architecture Major (LDA) Pre-Approved Upper-Division Electives
Students should develop their own clusters of elective courses for the LDA major totaling at least 20 units, and are encouraged to meet with staff or faculty advisors for advice. The following courses are pre-approved; to get approval for others see the LDA Lead Faculty Advisor.
Society, Culture, and Sustainability
Ecological Systems and Restoration
Society, Culture, and Sustainability
ANT 101: Ecology, Nature, and Society
ANT 104N: Culture Politics of the Environment
ANT 127: Urban Anthropology
ANT 131: Ecology and Politics
CHI 130: United States-Mexican Border Relations
CHI 131: Chicanas in Politics and Public Policy
ECN 115A: Economic Development
ECN 115B: Economic Development
ECN 133Y: Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy
ECN 145: Transportation Economics
HDE 110: Contemporary American Family
PHI 109: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
PHI 120: Environmental Ethics
SOC 102: Society and Culture of California
SOC 143A: Urban Society
SOC 143B: Sociology of City Life
SOC 160: Sociology of the Environment
SOC 181: Social Change Organizations
SOC 185: Social Policy
Ecological Systems and Restoration
ENH 100: Urban Forestry
ENH 101: Trees of the Urban Forest
ENH 133: Woody Plants in the Landscape: Growth, Ecology and Management
ENH 160: Restoration Ecology
ESM 100: Principles of Hydrologic Science
ESM 108: Environmental Monitoring
ESM 120: Global Environment
ESM 121: Water Science and Management
ESM 131: Air as a Resource
ESM 141: Role of Fire in Natural Ecosystems
ESM 144: Trees and Forests
ESM 185: Aerial Photo Interpretation and Remote Sensing
ESM 186: Environmental Remote Sensing
ESP 155: Wetland Ecology
ESP 160: The Policy Process
ESP 161: Environmental Law
ESP 162: Environmental Policy
ESP 163 /ECI 163: Energy and Environmental Aspects of Transportation
ESP 167: Energy Policy
ESP 169: Water Policy and Politics
ESP 170: Conservation Biology Policy
ESP 172: Public Lands Management
ESP 173: Land Use and Growth Controls
ESP 179: Environmental Impact Assessment
GEL 115: Earth Science, History, and People
GEL 130: Non-Renewable Natural Resources
GEL 134: Environmental Geology and Land Use Planning
LDA 150: Geographic Information Systems for Land Planners
LDA: Other upper-division LDA classes on a space-available basis.
PLS 130: Rangelands: Ecology, Conservation and Restoration
PLS 150: Sustainability and Agroecosystem Management
PLS 160: Agroforestry: Global and Local Perspectives
PLS 162: Urban Ecology
PLS 163: Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology
SSC 118: Soils in Land Use and the Environment
WFC 150: Urban Wildlife Ecology
WFC 151: Wildlife Ecology
WFC 152: Ecology of Human—Wildlife Conflicts
WFC 155: Habitat Conservation and Restoration
AHI 120A: Art, Architecture, and Human Rights
AHI 130: Landscape, Nature, and Art
AHI 155: The Islamic City
AHI 168: Great Cities
AHI 175: Architecture and Urbanism in Mediterranean Antiquity
AHI 184: Twentieth Century Architecture
AHI 187: Contemporary Architecture
AHI 188A: The American Home
AHI 188B: Architecture of the United States
ECI 123: Urban Systems and Sustainability
ECI 126: Integrated Planning for Green Civil Systems
ECI 127: Integrated Design for Green Civil Systems
ECI 161: Transportation System Operations
ECI 162: Transportation Land Use Sustainable Design
ECI 163: Energy and Environmental Aspects of Transportation
ECI 165: Transportation Policy
DES 127A: Sustainable Design
DES 127B: Studio Practice in Sustainable Design
DES 150A: Computer-Assisted Drawing for Designers
DES 150B: Computer-Assisted Presentations for Interior Architecture
LDA 140: Green Building, Design, & Materials
LDA 141: Community Participation & Design
LDA 142: Applying Sustainable Strategies
CRD 118: Technology and Society
CRD 140: Dynamics of Regional Development
CRD 141: Organization of Economic Space
CRD 142: Rural Change in the Industrialized World
CRD 147: Community Youth Development
CRD 149: Community Development Perspectives on Environmental Justice
CRD 151: Community Field Research: Theory and Analysis
CRD 152: Community Development
CRD 153: International Community Development
CRD 154: Social Theory and Community Change
CRD 156: Community Economic Development
CRD 157: Politics and Community Development
CRD 158: Small Community Governance
CRD 162: People, Work, and Technology
CRD 164: Theories of Organizations and Their Role in Community Change
CRD 171: Housing and Social Policy
CRD 172: Social Inequality
CRD 180: Transnational Community Development
POL 100: Local Government and Politics
POL 102: Urban Public Policy
POL 107: Environmental Politics and Administration
POL 108: Policy Making in the Public Sector
POL 109: Public Policy and the Governmental Process
POL 142A: Comparative Development: Political Development in Modernizing Societies
POL 142B: Comparative Development: Politics and Inequality
POL 171: The Politics of Energy
Note: Upper division undergraduates may take graduate courses with permission of the instructor that will count toward upper division electives.