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LARCH 256Skills Lab IV: GIS

2 credits · Landscape Architecture · Penn State

Landscape Architecture Skills Lab 4 is the skills lab that runs concurrently with the fourth design studio in the undergraduate Landscape Architecture curriculum. This skills lab will introduce geographic information system (GIS) as a primary tool in regional analysis and planning. The students will learn to integrate GIS into a broadly-based approach to managing data, developing concepts, and communicating ideas.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “Students must earn a C or better in LARCH 215 and LARCH 255 Concurrent at Enrollment: LARCH 216”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Spring (1 program).

Required in (1)

  • Landscape Architecture, B.L.A.

One of the options in (1)

  • Landscape Architecture, Minor
What it opens up

Courses that list LARCH 256 as a prerequisite (3)

  • LARCH 216 Design IV: Expanded Use, Scale, and Context
  • LARCH 315 Design V: Expanded Use, Scale, and Context
  • LARCH 335 Design Implementation III: Planting Methods