Spring 2019 Course Syllabi

• Assignment: Lettering exercise #3 • Assignment: Practice drawing plants and hard surfaces • Assignment: Practice drawing site plan and plan for outdoor rooms • Assignment: Read Chapter one “The Typical Residential Site”, Chapter 8 “Functional Diagrams”, and Chapter 9 “Preliminary Design and Design Principles” Week Four • Lettering Exercise #3 is due • Practice Drawing of plants and hard surfaces is due • Practice drawing of site plan and plan for outdoor rooms is due • Lecture: Identifying outdoor rooms and the basic design principles and discussion on client and site issues • Lab; Drawing and identifying site issues on a site plan (make up a photo and client questionnaire and base drawing not to scale – have them put it to scale and identify the site issues and outdoor rooms) • Assignment: Lettering exercise #4 • Assignment: Read Chapter 5 “Meeting the Clients”, and Chapter 10 “Form Composition”, Chapter 11 “Spatial Composition” Week Five • Lettering exercise #4 is due • Test Chapters 2-4, 8-9 • Lettering exercise #4 is due • Lecture: Client interviews • Lab: Practice interviewing clients and taking client and site map notes • Assignment: Lettering exercise #5 • Assignment: Read Chapters 12 and 13 Week Six • Lettering exercise #5 is due • Lecture/Discussion: Discussion on surfacing and hard materials in the landscape, discussion on special projects • Lab: Begin a presentation plan • Assignment: Lettering exercise #6 Week Seven • Lettering exercise #6 is due • Presentation Plan due • Lecture: Review and Critique Presentation Plans from previous week • Lab: • Assignment: Read Chapter 14 • Assignment: Lettering exercise #7 Week Eight • Lettering exercise #7 is due • Test on chapters 5, 10-11, 12-13 • Review and Discuss Chapter 14 • Lab: Practice drawing to work on scale and technique (have a rough for them to draw to scale with elements to include – so many evergreens, a hedge, a hard surface, three types of deciduous, etc.)