Department of Landscape Architecture

Course Description

Undergraduate Program

Courses / Session / Teaching Hours / Credit Points / Academic Year
Environmental Conservation / 2 / 2 / 2 / 1
Environmental conservation refers to the activity of systematically protecting natural resources of Earth from local to a global scale and over various time periods. The maintenance of the health of the natural world such as its fisheries, habitats and biological diversity and energy conservation will be introduced.
Environmental Resource Investigation and Analysis / 1 / 3 / 3 / 3
This course introduces the methodology of investigating and analyzing natural, social and biological resources of environment or a planned site. The natural resources focus largely on landform, climate, water, soil, and vegetation of environment. The social resources include human, political, cultural, development, social, health, historical, religion, transportation, tourism, urban and economic aspects, and biological resources are the terrestrial and aquatic lives of this planned site.
Landscape Ecology / 1 / 2 / 2 / 2
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to have environmental, social and aesthetic achievements. First, we propose the concept of landscape services that can be integrated into multifunctional, actor-led landscape development. Second, we elaborate this concept into a knowledge framework, the structure-function-value chain, and expand the current pattern-process paradigm in landscape ecology with value in this way. Third, we analyze how the framework could be applied and facilitate interdisciplinary research in transdisciplinary landscape development processes.
History of Landscape Architecture / 2 / 2 / 2 / 1
A landscape history exposes the evolutionary patterns of a specific landscape by revealing its ecological stages, cultural periods, and keystone processes. We will investigate this valuable tool and its potential to improve description, prediction and prescription in landscape planning.
Sustainable Landscape Management / 2 / 2 / 2 / 4
Sustainable landscape management is aimed to meet human needs while preserving the landscape so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for future generations. Landscape management covers the natural and designed landscapes. The former includes natural reserves, natural open space parks and national parks. The latter focuses on public parks, private gardens and public botanic gardens and golf courses and sports centers.
Statistics / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
This course introduces the methodology of making effective use of numerical data relating to groups of individuals or experiments. It deals with all aspects of collection, analysis and interpretation of such data, but also the planning of the collection of data.
Basic Design (I & II) / 1&2 / 6 / 3 / 1
The student will be expected to come to class prepared, case study, and current in drawing assignments. The reason that attendance is absolutely necessary is because each class builds upon those that precede it. Participation in class is a good measure of preparedness. All students separated into three groups, and then every student must discuss their design work with the instructor.
Environmental Behavior / 2 / 2 / 2 / 3
Environmental Behavior has been seen as a narrow field, eg, only environmental psychology or only behavioural factors in design. It really a much broader field – encompassing all the social and political sciences in relation to the entire designed and built environment that includes culture, social groups, values, images, meaning, symbolism in design, planning and environmental policy, etc. The purpose of course will teach student to understand the relationships between environment and behavior, as well as how to make a proper design.
Environmental Impact Assessment / 2 / 2
1.  Objectives
This course will aim on:
To survey natural and built area in planning stage;
To predict and to analyze pollutions by construction stage; and,
To evaluate different solutions and to reduce environment impacts.
2. Schedule
(1) Architecture of Environmental Impact Assessment
(2) Atmosphere Environmental Impact Assessment
(3) Water Environmental Impact Assessment
(4) Noise Environmental Impact Assessment
(5) Ecology Environmental Impact Assessment
(6) Culture Environmental Impact Assessment
(7) Scenic Beauty Estimation
(8) Socio-economic Environmental Impact Assessment
(9) Method of Comprehensive Assessment
Geographic Information System / 1 / 2 / 2 / 4
1. Objective
This course is to understand the foundation of GIS and to practice its basic techniques during the class. Therefore, the skills and techniques taught in this course are those useful both in planning and design of landscape architecture.
2. Schedule
Week 1 Lecture introduction
Week 2 Introduction of GIS
Week 3 Introduction of GIS development
Week 4 Projected coordinate System
Week 5 Querying your database
Week 6 Working with tables
Week 7 Editing data
Week 8 Searching data
Week 9 Database
Week 10 Buffer Zone Analysis
Week 11 Display results
Week 12 Network analysis
Week 13 Spatial analysis
Week 14 3D analysis
Week 15 Landscape planning and GIS
Week 16 Google Earth and Arc GIS
Week 17 Animation
Week 18 Final examination
Introduction of Leisure and Recreation / 2 / 2.0 / 2 / 3
1.  Objectives
Introduction of Leisure and Recreation is a very broad social science that including resource management, land planning, market, and data analysis. The purpose of this course will cover all regard with outdoor and indoor activities that as well as let student understand the future trend of leisure and recreation.
2. Schedule
(1) Introduction of Leisure and Recreation
(2) Basic Principles of Leisure and Recreation
(3) Education of Leisure and Recreation
(4) Psychoanalysis of Leisure and Recreation
(5) Economic of Leisure and Recreation
(6) Geographical Analysis of Leisure and Recreation
(7) Resource System of Leisure and Recreation
(8) Resource Management of Leisure and Recreation
(9) Planning of Leisure and Recreation
(10) Interpretation Service of Leisure and Recreation
(11) Marketing of Leisure and Recreation
(12) Estate Management of Leisure and Recreation
(13) Planning activities of Leisure and Recreation
(14) Requirements and Benefits of Leisure and Recreation
(15) Therapy of Leisure and Recreation
Landscape Research Method / 2 / 2 / 2 / 3
1.  Objectives :
l  To develop techniques and skills in formulating research approaches in landscape architecture;
l  To understand the characteristics of qualitative, quantitative and descriptive research techniques; and,
To demonstrate applications of these techniques and skills in academics and practice.
1. Schedule
(1) What is “social research”?
(2) Research ethic
(3) Literature review
(4) Research question and hypothesis
(5) Research design
(6) Measure tool
(7) Questionnaire design
(8) Sampling
(9) Data analysis
(10) Description of study result
(11) Conclusion and suggestion
(12) Reference style
(13) Introduction to SPSS
Laws of Landscape Architecture / 1 / 2 / 2 / 4
1.  Objective
To comprehensively understand the related laws and regulations in field of landscape architecture; and,
To provide an accuracy of usage while student doing landscape planning work.
2. Schedule
1. Introduction to related landscape laws
2. Landscape Act
3. Urban Planning Act
4. Land Act
5. National Park Act
6. Scenic Zone Regulation
7. Bed and Breakfast Regulation
8. Leisure Farm Regulation
9. Soil and Water Conservation Act
10. Environment Impact Assessment Act
11. Building Code
Planting Design (I & II) / 1 & 2 / 6 / 3 / 2
This course will via the principles of planting and practice to train students’ skill for planting design. In addition, we encourage them to develop creative brainstorm and to strengthen their profession skill.
Urban Design / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
1. Understanding the roles, functions, capacities, and the meanings of Urban Design in the development process of urban planning today.
2. Knowing the Public implementation methods, techniques, and the procedure for Urban Design.
3. Practice and case study for Urban Design in Taiwan.
Theory of Landscape Planning / 1 / 2 / 2 / 3
By ways of team work discussion and lectures, leading students know the basic theories of Landscape and leisure environment planning; they are like environment cognition, problem thinking, fixing the target of planning, planning process, environmental resources investigation and
estimation, leisure market research and analysis, travelers volume estimation, policy decision, environmental management, etc.
Moreover, human building environment cognition is another program for urban planning; they are like urban land use planning, public facility land use planning, and the different viewpoint within government and private department. These are also the basic theories for Landscape planner attending programs of urban environment planning.
Landscape Design Elements / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
Cultivating students have the abilities of space observation, records, analyses, team work, and discussion for deeply knowing the components of our building environment; this is beneficial to the ability of Landscape Architecture Design.
By ways of case studies and practices of problem thinking and solution discovering, demand of users, functions of the components of our building environment, and the management of LA facilities, which leading students to think and to know how to use the components of Landscape Architecture Design to improve the quality of our building environment.
Landscape Fieldwork / 2 / 2 / 2 / 3
1. Learning problems thinking, planning and designing, and management around our human building environment with the viewpoint of high-level Landscape Architecture Design manager.
2. Learning thinking and making the future plans that concern with students’ careers that may to be the designer, the planner, and the researcher in fields of Landscaper Architecture, or Environmental Planning and Design.
3. Outside instruction for studying good cases in Taiwan.
Practice of Landscape Fieldwork / 2 / 3 / 1 / 3
1. Cooperating with programs of Landscape Fieldwork, let students learn problems thinking, planning and designing, and management around our human building environment with the viewpoint of high-level Landscape Architecture Design manager.
2. Cooperating with programs of Landscape Fieldwork, let students learn thinking and making the future plans that concern with students’ careers that may to be the designer, the planner, and the researcher in fields of Landscaper Architecture, or Environmental Planning and Design.
3. Cooperating with programs of Landscape Fieldwork, holding outside instruction for studying good cases in Taiwan.
Graphics / 1 / 4 / 2 / 1
“Graphics” is the fundamental program of Landscape Architecture Design. The aims of this program are to train students have abilities and technical skills of reading and studying layout drawing, sketching, and drawing of Landscape Architecture Design. These will benefit students’ integral space imagination and design expression. This program is constructed of drafting and drawing that include basic drafting skills, tools use, graphic show, colors and paintings, signs and dimensions, and scale skills; these can make students have the basic drawing abilities and technical skills of Landscape Architecture Design.