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Landscape Architecture BLA/Urban Planning and Design MUPD

The professions of Landscape Architecture and Planning are linked in the professional world. Obtaining accredited degrees (and eventually professional licenses) in both disciplines will expand the career options for students who successfully compete the program. Both degrees focus on designing ways to improve everyday life for people as well as ecosystem health at the site and regional scales, but earning both degrees allows students to further engage community process to identify and plan for long range city and regional goals. Career opportunities will multiply within traditional design firms and will expand into public and private firms that incorporate environmental planning into their projects such as government offices, public municipalities, private, and public universities.

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Admission to Program

Undergraduate students will apply to the joint B.L.A./M.U.P.D. program the fall semester of their third year of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (B.L.A.) program. Student applications will be reviewed by the director of the B.L.A. program and the director of the M.U.P.D. program. The director of the M.U.P.D. program has final authority to grant admission.

Undergraduate students applying to the joint B.L.A./M.U.P.D. program must submit a letter of intent, portfolio of creative work, and complete a joint interview with the directors of the B.L.A. and M.U.P.D. programs.

Curriculum

Graduate-level courses that may be used to satisfy undergraduate and graduate program requirements.

PLAN 6540 Planning Studio II (4 credits)
EDES 6270 GIS (3 credits)
LAND 6950 Research Strategies (3 credits)
EDES 6540 Ideas of Community (2 credits)

Additional requirements that are unique to this Double Dawgs program:

No additional requirements.

Admission to Graduate Program

Undergraduate students applying to the joint B.L.A./M.U.P.D. program must submit a letter of intent, portfolio of creative work, and complete a joint interview with the directors of the B.L.A. and M.U.P.D. programs.

Program Advisor

  • Name: Donnie Longenecker
  • Email: longneck@uga.edu
  • Phone: 706-542-4702
  • Address: 116 Jackson Street Building
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Undergraduate Major Information

  • Major: Landscape Architecture B.L.A.
  • Department/College: College of Environment and Design

Advising Contact

  • Name: Donnie Longenecker
  • Email: longneck@uga.edu
  • Phone: 706-542-4702
  • Address: 116 Jackson Street Building

Graduate Major Information

  • Major: Urban Planning and Design M.U.P.D.
  • Department/College: College of Environment and Design

Advising Contact

  • Name: Umit Yilmaz
  • Email: yilmaz@uga.edu
  • Phone: 706-542-3117
  • Address: 101 Tanner Building