Boundaries between environmental design disciplines are getting blurred. Increasingly, landscape architecture is being explored from different perspectives pertaining to art, architecture, urbanism, ecology, and technology. As such, it is perceived as an architectural incorporation of nature, an investigation in regional ecologies, an experimental field for installation artists, or as a means for reinforcing regional and urban identities. Hence, landscape architecture is losing its narrow definition as a professional field concerned with designing gardens and urban open spaces. It is widening its scope to embrace contemporary environmental problems and philosophical debates about the evolving attitudes towards nature, design, cities and their interface.

In response to this inclusive attitude toward the environment, this program opens a new perspective for graduate studies bridging the gap between art, architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. It provides new graduate students as well as experienced professionals the opportunity to explore and to learn to manage emerging and pressing issues related to environmental conservation and sustainable development. As such the program aims at educating professionals and researchers who are able to respond to the need of ministries, international agencies as well as private developers and consulting offices in devising a culturally-appropriate approach to environmental planning and in formulating landscape and urban design strategies at urban, metropolitan and regional scales. It also encourages aesthetic exploration by individual artists, architects and landscape designers who prefer to follow their own itinerary in professional or research work.

Structure
The course is organized around three areas of concentration: Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Environmental Planning. Specific requirements depend on the interest of the student and the recommendations of the advisor of the department:

During the first semester, the student is exposed to the breadth of the program through a series of intensive introductory lecture-workshop courses covering the wide range of theories, methods and issues underlying the three areas of concentration. Starting from the second semester, the student will start focusing on a specialization area that will guide his selection of elective courses as well as his disciplinary focus within the required studio and core courses. The program provides the added flexibility of opting for a design-oriented course of study leading to a professional project thesis or for a research-oriented course of study leading to a written thesis with high analysis content

Admission Requirements

In addition to the university admission requirements for graduate students, the candidate must submit a portfolio of work for assessment and schedule an interview with MLU course faculty.

In addition, applicants for the graduate program may be granted a maximum of nine transfer credits of graduate studies taken at another accredited institution of higher education provided that the transfer course(s) correspond to the NDU course requirements.

In order to be accepted into the program, the students must take a minimum of 6 credits per semester as a part-time candidate and 9 credits as a full-time candidate.

Students applying with a bachelor degree outside of architecture should fulfill the undergraduate requirements of the university admission policy. Students with a degree from FAAD other than architecture will have to consult with MLU course faculty.

Graduation Requirements
Students seeking the degree of Master of Landscape Urbanism must meet the university graduation requirements and complete 36 credits with a cumulative average of at least 3.0/4.0.

Core Courses (30 cr.)

MLU 615, MLU 616, MLU 617, MLU 623/MLU 624, MLU 625/MLU 626, MLU 635, MLU 636, MLU 645

Major Electives (6 cr)

Suggested Program

Year I
Fall Semester (9 Credits)
MLU	615	Ecological Foundations of Landscape Urbanism	3cr.
MLU	616	Aesthetic Foundations of Landscape Urbanism	3cr.
MLU	617	Landscape Informatics	3cr.
Spring Semester (9 Credits)
MLU	623	Cultural foundations of Landscape Urbanism	3cr.
or
MLU	624	The coastal environment
MLU	625	Generative landscapes	3cr.
or
MLU	626	Policy and implementation in landscape urbanism
___	___	Major Elective	3cr.
Year II
Fall Semester (9 Credits)
MLU	635	Workshop in Landscape Urbanism	6 cr.
MLU	636	Thesis Seminar	3 cr.
Spring Semester (9 Credits)
MLU	645	Thesis	6 cr.
___	___	Major elective	3 cr.