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KRTR 5700 - Contemporary Korea, Urban, Global
An examination of representations of the urban and global in contemporary Korea.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5120 - Adv History of Landscape Design I
This course surveys the pre-modern history of gardens and designed landscapes. The sessions follow a roughly chronological sequence, with a thematic focus appropriate to each landscape culture, e.g. water infrastructure and agricultural systems, public and private space, theater and performance, court rituals, horticultural display, natural philosophy and aesthetic theory, visual representation, and the professionalization of landscape design.
Prerequisite: Graduates only.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5130 - Adv History of Landscape Design II
This course examines gardens and landscapes of the modern period, tracing the complex relations between innovations in landscape design and social, technological, and ideological developments of the past 200 years. Case studies focus on the United States and Europe, with thematic emphasis on the rise of the bourgeoisie. Graduate course will have additional course requirements.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5140 - Theories of Modern Landscape Architecture
Lectures and discussions sections examining the interrelationships between modern designed landscapes, and the theoretical texts that influenced, or were influenced by them. Readings include primary sources, such as, design treatises, manifestos, park reports and essays, as well as related texts in ecology, art, architecture, geography. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. Prerequisite: LAR 5120 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5200 - Adv Healing Spaces
Lectures and workshops investigating theme of designed landscapes as means to physically and mentally heal human beings. Topics include a historical overview of various healing landscapes, and an examination of various healing practices in different cultures. Field trips to hospitals, hospices and out-patient clinics in the Charlottesville area. Graduate course will have additional course requirements.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5210 - Adv Topics in Contemporary Theory
Seminar exploring topics in landscape architecture theory through direct readings, discussions and research papers. Subjects vary from topics such as design drawing and representation to changing conceptions of nature and ecology (from sustainability to emergence), to gender and design, to the works of a specific designer or region. Grad. course will have additional course requirements.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5230 - Cultural Landscapes
Seminar introduces contemporary theory and practice for describing, interpreting, planning, preserving, and designing vernacular and designed cultural landscapes (urban/peri-urban/rural; sylvan & postindustrial) and historic sites. Exploration through case study review, close reading and discussion of texts, short position papers & field trips. Graduate course will have additional course requirements.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5250 - Landscape and Narrative
This workshop explores the role of narrative in creating, experiencing, and representing landscapes. In addition to examining built landscapes where inscriptions and sequential movement play a crucial role, we will analyze the use of landscape in the narrative arts, including the novel, drama, and film. Case studies include Goethe’s Elective Affinities, Stoppard’s Arcadia, Tati’s Mon Oncle, and Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5260 - D.I.R.T. Seminar: Doing Industrial Research Together
Readings, lectures, and class discussions focus on the evolving definition and reclamation technologies of the post-industrial landscape. Includes field work/visits to a variety of brownfield and industrial sites.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5280 - Green Cities/Green Sites
This course teaches students how to redesign city properties to reduce runoff pollution and follow environmentally sensitive design principles. By assessing the city’s existing `greenfrastructure’ and retrofitting city lands and buildings, students learn how the city can demonstrate environmentally sensitive design, protect public health and provide more opportunities for environmental education and healthful recreation.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5290 - Green Lands
Students in this course inventory existing environmental functions of undeveloped land in order to designate appropriate protection and restoration techniques to enhance environmental capital. Using the lens of green infrastructure planning, the course assesses the interconnected network of waterways, wetlands, woodlands, and wildlife habitats to maximize environmentally responsible development.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5330 - Sites and Systems
Recent trends in landscape architecture can be framed as moving from how things look to how they perform. The interest in ecosystem services or green infrastructure indicates how concerns are moving from issues of form to issues of flow. In studying the co-dependent relationship of urban metabolism and morphology, this seminar asks how far engineered solutions provided by technical infrastructure can be reevaluated as assets of the public realm.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5340 - Earthwork
Applies concepts and principles of earthwork, land manipulation, grading, and drainage in short exercises. Introduces digital applications in a combined lecture and workshop format. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in LAR 6020 or 7010 Studio or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5370 - Natural Systems and Plant Ecology
Lectures and fieldwork introducing ecological concepts and natural systems, and focusing on plant associations in natural habitats. Concentration on both ecological structure and function as well as physical form/shape of plants. Emphasis on field identification and analysis. Lecture and frequent fieldtrips to varied ecosystems in different regions within Virginia, including Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge, and Ridge Valley.
Credits: 4
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LAR 5375 - Planted Systems and Urban Ecology
Building on the palette of native plants learned in LAR 5370, this course focuses on the characteristics and requirements of ornamental, non-native woody and herbaceous plant species and their design and cultivation in constructed sites and urban conditions. The course includes lectures and field trips to varying designed landscapes and towns in the region.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5380 - Planted Form and Function
This course builds on LAR 5370 & 5375 shifting emphasis from plant description &identification to making design propositions using plants. Lectures alternate with short planting design exercises & research into creating plant palettes for different site conditions.Students learn how planting designs move through various stages of the design from conceptual, to schematic, to design development, &construction documentation.Prerequisite:5370&5375
Credits: 4
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LAR 5430 - Landscape Visualization & 3-D Modeling
Investigates advanced computer-based techniques for landscape visualization, including 3-D geometric modeling, texture mapping and animation. A series of lectures, computer-based workshop exercises and readings of increasing sophistication focus on internal and external representations of terrain elements: landform, vegetation, water, meteorological and atmospheric effects. Photo-realistic and abstract strategies are explored to augment design investigation and presentation.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5460 - Representing Landscape III
A continuation of LAR 6410 Landscape Representation II and aligning with LAR 7010 studio, this course will explore ways to analyze, index, and represent larger scale landscape systems and their relationship and use, and to utilize them as a critical design tool in studio. Students will investigate urban and environmental data software such as GIS and methods to spatialize such information in physical/3D forms using Rhino and laser cutting.
Credits: 2
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LAR 5500 - Special Topics in Landscape Architecture
Topical offerings in landscape architecture.
Credits: 1 to 3
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LAR 5590 - Faculty Research Seminar
Affords students opportunities to participate in specific faculty’s advance research projects. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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LAR 5670 - Place Making
Seminar that explores the interconnections between infrastructure–ecological systems, transportation, and water supply–and the form and vitality domestic urban landscape. Readings, discussions and research papers examine contemporary case studies, from the Charlottesville Urban Habitats Design Competition to ideas for rebuilding New Orleans.
Credits: 3
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LAR 5993 - Advanced Independent Research
Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Credits: 1 to 3
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LAR 6010 - Foundation Studio I
Series of short analytical and conceptual design projects with special emphasis on the landscape medium, on site readings, and site-specific design approaches. Prerequisite: ALAR 5010 & 5020
Credits: 6
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LAR 6020 - Foundation Studio II
LAR 6020 focuses on process and from, exploring how dynamic living systems shape the landscape with design interventions resulting in complex places within specific contexts. Design methodologies are introduced as a means to translate landscape processes and to respond through iterative design propositions.
Prerequisite: LAR 6010.
Credits: 6
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LAR 6160 - Advanced Topics in the History of Landscape Design
Advanced seminar on topics in the history of landscape design. Advance historical research and analysis of designed and other landscapes. Permission of instructor required for undergraduates.
Credits: 3
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LAR 6180 - Advanced Topics in Landscape History
Advanced seminar on topics in landscape history. Advanced historical research and analysis of the history of landscape formation and change. Permission of instructor required for undergraduates.
Credits: 3
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LAR 6210 - Movement and Built Environment
This seminar will consider the bodily experience of movement in the environment and how designers, attuned to the kinesthetic potentials of the body, might use movement as a generative device. A guest choreographer will lead the class in a series of environmental movement
Credits: 3
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LAR 6211 - EcoTech I
Applies concepts and principles of earthwork, land manipulation, water, and drainage& basic construction in short exercises. Introduces digital applications in a combined lecture and workshop format.
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in LAR 6010 or ALAR 7010 Studio or instructor
permission.
Requisite: This course will focus on the participatory design process, looking especially into models that incorporate theories of cultural landscape preservation and address social practices and community
Credits: 4
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LAR 6212 - EcoTech II
The course intends to establish a solid base of technical knowledge about the physical & performative characteristics of traditional building materials& emerging alternatives related to landscape architecture. Students will be encouraged to become astute observers & skilled recorders at the detail to landscape scales, while obtaining a greater materials sensibility to the design & construction processes that eventually translate into constructed Land.
Credits: 4
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LAR 6221 - Planted Form and Function I
Concentration on both ecological structure and function as well as physical form/shape of plants. Lectures and fieldwork introducing ecological concepts and natural systems, and focusing on plant associations in natural habitats. Emphasis on field identification and analysis. Lecture and frequent fieldtrips to varied ecosystems in different regions within Virginia, including Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge, and Ridge Valley.
Credits: 3
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LAR 6222 - Planted Form and Function II
This course builds on LAR 6221, shifting emphasis from plant description & identification to making design propositions using plants. Lectures alternate with short planting design exercises & research into creating plant palettes for different site conditions.Students learn how planting designs move through various stages of the design from conceptual, to schematic, to design development, &construction documentation.
Prerequisite:LAR 6221
Credits: 3
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LAR 6410 - Representing Landscape I
Course explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media including drawing, collage, model making & digital modeling. Students will explore manual and digital techniques to represent the physical and phenomenal structures of landscape, site, and ground and encouraged to incorporate the two means fluidly & expressively. The media and assignments will align with LAR 6010 first-year LAR studio
Credits: 2
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LAR 6411 - Visual Studies I
Course explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media including drawing, collage, model making & digital modeling. Students will explore manual and digital techniques to represent the physical and phenomenal structures of landscape, site, and ground and encouraged to incorporate the two means fluidly & expressively.
Credits: 1
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LAR 6412 - Visual Studies II
This course is a continuation of LAR 6413 Visual Studies III and aligns with LAR 6020 first-year spring studio. Students will further explore ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media including drawing, collage, model making & digital modeling. The course also introduces the basics of CAAD drawing.
Credits: 1
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LAR 6414 - Digital Practices II
Course explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media. Through a series of lectures, exercises, fieldwork, case studies, reading discussions and workshops, students will be introduced to a diverse body of representational models and methods to address form, scale, materiality, context and time unique to the praxis of landscape architecture
Credits: 3
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LAR 6417 - Digital Practices I
Course explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media. Through a series of lectures, exercises, fieldwork, case studies, reading discussions and workshops, students will be introduced to a diverse body of representational models and methods to address form, scale, materiality, context and time unique to the praxis of landscape architecture.
Credits: 3
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LAR 6420 - Representing Landscape II
This course is a continuation of LAR 6410 Representing Landscape I and aligns with LAR 6020 first-year spring studio. Students will further explore ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media including drawing, collage, model making & digital modeling. The course also introduces the basics of CAD drawing.
Credits: 1
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LAR 6710 - Design Computation I
The Design Computation sequence introduces computational thinking and design in the context of long-standing architectural technologies. Design Computation 1 focuses on computational fundamentals, spatial structures, and associative modeling.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7010 - Foundation Studio III
Semester long design project, usually of a complex urban or suburban site that explores the contemporary public realm at multiple scales, from the urban watershed to the detail.
Credits: 6
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LAR 7020 - Foundation IV
LAR 7020 is grounded in issues of urban design. Fundamental aspects of urban form are explored in contemporary contexts of cities impacted by urgent environmental, economic and social circumstances. Design propositions are generated at the scale of landscape infrastructure to that of individual citizens. Prerequisite: of ALAR 7010
Credits: 6
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LAR 7180 - Landscape and Technology
This seminar examines the impact of technological revolutions on landscape design. Case studies include innovations in hydraulics and irrigation, horticulture and the plant trade, transportation and civil engineering, construction techniques, and landscape representation. Readings address modern conceptions of the nature/technology divide, the social dimensions of technological development, and the relation of these domains to landscape design.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7213 - EcoTech III
Advanced level of ground manipulation + water integrated with ecological principles and engineering applications in the area of urban watershed management. Topics include urban hydrology & soils, storm water management & low impact development techniques, as well as constructed wetlands & stream restoration. Prerequisite:Must be enrolled in ALAR 7010 Studio or taken LAR 6211, or with permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7214 - EcoTech IV
Illuminating course looking at earthwork, and construction that integrates the principles of water and land into the studio, with an emphasis in self remediation, bioengineering, living systems and management.Typological library of solutions.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7224 - Planted Form and Function III
Urban forests are a consequence of a non-planned decision. They are an addition of independent interventions through the history of the city. The objective of the course will be to rethink urban forests taking as a base the existing reality, reviewing its history, but also learning from the original forest to propose new typologies of design where city and trees will share the same objective: working together with complexity and efficacy.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7310 - Planted Form
Develops a design vocabulary specific to individual plant architecture and collective planted form studying the structure and dynamics of native plant communities, vernacular planting systems and design precedents. Vocabulary and principles applied in the formulation of plant palettes for specific design intentions and situations. Prerequisite: LAR 5370 and 5380, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7320 - Regenerative Technologies
Negative environmental consequences of production and use are an opportunity to design new landscapes typologies. Review of negative externalities in primary, secondary and tertiary sector of the economy through history. Global and specific remediation strategies. Development of conceptual approaches for every sector. Typological library of solutions. Introduction of the concepts management, self remediation, resilience, process.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7340 - Site Assembly
Introduces landscape construction materials and methods for their assembly, focusing on small structures. Uses case study analysis to explore the expressive design potential of materials, technical concerns for performance and durability, and ethical concerns for sustainability.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7350 - Waterworks
Integrates ecological principles with engineering applications in the area of urban watershed management. Topics include urban hydrology and soils, storm water management and low impact development techniques, as well as constructed wetlands and stream restoration. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in LAR 7010 Studio or LAR 5340, or with permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7414 - Visual Studies III
A continuation of LAR 6411 Visual Studies I and aligning with ALAR 7010 studio, this course will explore ways to analyze, index, and represent larger scale landscape systems and their relationship and use, and to utilize them as a critical design tool in studio. Students will investigate urban and environmental data software such as GIS and methods to specialize such information in physical/3D forms using Rhino and laser cutting.
Credits: 1
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LAR 7415 - Scripting Civic Engagement: Web Technologies
This course introduces various technologies, primarily web-based, that enable designers to promote civic engagement through the analysis and activation of public space. Course format is interactive and interdisciplinary, combining hands-on tutorials (Mapbox, HTML, CSS, dataviz, social media APIs.) with contemporary case studies in placemaking, activism, and civic tech. No prior coding knowledge required.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7416 - Digital Practices IV
Course explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media. Through a series of lectures, exercises, fieldwork, case studies, reading discussions and workshops, students will be introduced to a diverse body of representational models and methods to address form, scale, materiality, context and time unique to the praxis of landscape architecture
Credits: 1
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LAR 7417 - Digital Practices III
Course explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of 2D and 3D media. Through a series of lectures, exercises, fieldwork, case studies, reading discussions and workshops, students will be introduced to a diverse body of representational models and methods to address form, scale, materiality, context and time unique to the praxis of landscape architecture
Credits: 1
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LAR 7700 - Advanced Landscape Drawing and Representation
Explores ways of representing, analyzing and designing the landscape through a variety of media to include drawing, collage, image processing, model making and digital modeling. Prerequisite: LAR 6010, 6020, 7010.
Credits: 3
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LAR 7993 - Independent Study
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor .
Credits: 1 to 3
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LAR 8001 - Design Research Seminar
This course is for landscape architecture students expecting to undertake an independent design research studio during the following fall semester. This student-driven course will engage with faculty and other students to support their independent work.
Credits: 1
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LAR 8010 - Comprehensive Studio
Semester -long design project that integrates eco-technology course content - earthwork, planted systems, and site assemblies - with a conceptual design idea, leading to the comprehensive and rigorous design development of a landscape. Prerequisite: ALAR 7020.
Credits: 6
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LAR 8020 - Foundation Studio IV
Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. Typical projects include brownfields, urban landscape infrastructure, and sustainable designs.
Prerequisite: ALAR 8010
Credits: 6
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LAR 8102 - Design Research Methods
This course is for landscape architecture students expecting to undertake an independent thesis studio during the following fall semester. ALAR 8100 is the prerequisite. This student-driven course will engage with faculty and other students to support their independent work. Students are expected to gather the appropriate resources and focus on contextualizing their work.
Credits: 3
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LAR 8140 - Adv Theories of Modern Landscape Architecture
Lectures and discussions sections examining the interrelationships between modern designed landscapes, and the theoretical texts that influenced, or were influenced by them. Readings include primary sources, such as, design treatises, manifestos, park reports and essays, as well as related texts in ecology, art, architecture, geography, and cultural theory.
Credits: 3
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LAR 8320 - Professional Practice
Introduction to methods and models of design practice administration: proposal, contracts, project management, collaboration and licensure.
Credits: 3
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LAR 8321 - Landscape Architecture Construction Documentation
This course introduces students to standards for the set of documents used in landscape architectural project construction.
Credits: 1
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LAR 8500 - Special Studies in Landscape Architecture
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Credits: 1 to 4
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LAR 8800 - Teaching Experience
Involves serving as a teaching assistant for a course, with teaching assignments coordinated by the chair. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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LAR 8801 - Research Experience
Student will engage with faculty on selected topics in Landscape Architecture Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
Credits: 3
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LAR 8993 - Independent Study
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor. Prerequisite: Landscape Architecture faculty approval of topic.
Credits: 1 to 4
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LAR 8999 - Non-Topical Research
Non-Topical Research.
Credits: 3 to 12
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LATI 5020 - History of Latin Literature of the Empire
Lectures with readings from Vergil through Juvenal. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5030 - History of Medieval Latin Literature
Studies of medieval Latin literature from Boethius to Dante. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5040 - Prose Composition
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5050 - Latin Paleography.
Studies scripts and book production from antiquity to the Renaissance. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5060 - Roman Comedy
Studies selected plays of Plautus and Terence. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Prerequisite: advanced knowledge of Latin
Credits: 3
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LATI 5070 - Latin Elegy
Studies selections from Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5110 - Catullus
Studies the surviving poems of Catullus, with particular attention to questions of genre, structure, and literary history. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5120 - Julius Caesar
Readings in and discussion of Julius Caesar’s Commentarities on the Gallic Wars and the Civil War, as well as the “Continuators”, who wrote accounts of the latter after Caesar’s death.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5140 - Cicero’s Rhetorical Works
Readings from the orations and from the rhetorical treatises. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5160 - Vergil’s Aeneid
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5210 - Ovid’s Love Poetry
Studies readings from the Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, and Remedia Amoris. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5220 - Tacitus
Selections from Tacitus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 5300 - Latin Survey
This course will consist of a selective survey of Latin Literature
Credits: 3
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LATI 5993 - Independent Study
Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 7030 - The Teaching of Latin
This course will deal with the teaching of Latin at all levels. Issues of curriculum, textbooks, and methodology will be addressed along with practical matters of day-to-day classroom realities.
Credits: 3
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LATI 7070 - Fragmentary Roman Historians
This class reads the many fragments of Roman Republican historians and learns how to analyze them from three perspectives: linguistic (including textual problems); literary; and historical. Why did early Romans, many of them active statesmen and generals, write history? What themes are perceptible in their surviving fragments? What was the historical context of the author, and what was the historical contribution of his work?
Credits: 3
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LATI 7500 - Reading Latin Literature
A study of the readings in the revised Advanced Placement Examination
Credits: 3
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LATI 8010 - Seminar on Select Topics in Latin Literature
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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LATI 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 1 to 12
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LATI 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 1 to 12
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LATI 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 1 to 12
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LATI 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 1 to 12
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LAW 6000 - Civil Procedure
This course covers the procedures courts use in deciding lawsuits that do not involve criminal misconduct. Much of it is concerned with the process of litigation in trial courts, from the initial documents called pleadings, through the pre-trial process, especially the process of discovery in which parties obtain information from one another, to trial itself.
Credits: 4
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LAW 6001 - Constitutional Law
This course is an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the rights and liberties it defines. Judicial review, federalism, congressional powers and limits, the commerce clause, and the 10th Amendment are covered, as are the equal protection and due process clauses.
Credits: 4
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LAW 6002 - Contracts
This course examines the legal obligations that attach to promises made in a business contract or otherwise, including the remedies that may be available for promises that are not kept. The course examines the legal requirements for enforceable contracts, including consideration, consent and conditions, and the effect of fraud, mistake, unconscionability, and impossibility.
Credits: 4
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LAW 6003 - Criminal Law
This course explores the basic principles of Anglo-American criminal law, including the constituent elements of criminal offenses, the necessary predicates for criminal liability, the major concepts of justification and excuse, and the conditions under which offenders can be liable for attempt. Major emphasis is placed on the structure and interpretation of modern penal codes.
Credits: 3
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LAW 6004 - Legal Research and Writing I
This is the first semester of the yearlong basic skills course in the first-year curriculum covering fundamental legal research techniques, two styles of legal writing, and oral advocacy. In this first semester, students complete various research and citation exercises and write three office memoranda of increasing length and complexity.
Credits: 1
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LAW 6005 - Legal Research and Writing (YR)
This is the second semester of the yearlong basic skills course in the first-year curriculum covering fundamental legal research techniques, two styles of legal writing, and oral advocacy. In this second semester, students write an appellate brief and present an appellate oral argument before a panel of alumni, faculty, and Dillard Fellows (upperclass teaching assistants).
Credits: 1
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LAW 6006 - Property
The course is a general introduction to property concepts and different types of property interests, particularly real property. The course surveys present and future estates in land, ownership and concurrent ownership. Leasehold interests, gifts and bequests, covenants and servitudes, conveyancing, various land use restrictions, eminent domain, and intellectual and personal property issues are also considered.
Credits: 4
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LAW 6007 - Torts
The course examines liability for civil wrongs that do not arise out of contract. It explores three standards of conduct: liability for intentional wrongdoing, negligence, and liability without fault, or strict liability, and other issues associated with civil liability, such as causation, damages, and defenses. Battery, medical malpractice, products liability, and tort reform will also be covered.
Credits: 4
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LAW 6100 - Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements
This course is the first half of the combined four-credit Accounting/Corporate Finance course. This course provides an understanding of the concepts of financial accounting and published financial statements.
Credits: 2
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LAW 6101 - Corporate Finance
This course is the second half of the combined four-credit Accounting/Corporate Finance course. The central theme is understanding the sources of value for the firm from the perspective of the manager who must make financing choices (sources of funds) and investment choices (uses of funds) to maximize the value of the firm.
Credits: 2
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LAW 6102 - Administrative Law
This course covers the role of agencies in the constitutional structure and their operations. Topics include the nondelegation doctrine, executive appointment and removal power, the legislative veto as well as the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and other sources of law that regulate and structure the authority of agencies to determine the rights and responsibilities of the public.
Prerequisite: LAW 6001-Constitutional Law
Credits: 3 to 4
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LAW 6103 - Corporations
This course considers the formation and operation of corporations and compares corporations to other business forms. It examines the roles and duties of those who control businesses and the power of investors to influence and litigate against those in control. The course also addresses the special problems of closely held corporations and issues arising out of mergers and attempts to acquire firms. The course uses both new tools derived from the corporate finance and related literature and traditional tools to explore a wide range of phenomena and transactions associated with the modern business enterprise.
Credits: 4
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