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Course Offerings That May Count Toward The LSS Minor
AMS (American Studies)
201 Introduction to the Study of American Society and Culture
220 Colloquium: In the 'burbs: Culture, Politics, Identity (Steve Waksman)
302 The Material Culture of New England, 1630-1860
ANT (Anthropology)
230 Africa: Population, Health, and Environmental Issues
236 Economy, Ecology, and Society
252 The City and the Countryside in China
ARH
(Art History)
101 Colq: The Home as a Work of Art
101 Realism: The Desire to Record the World
216 Art and Architecture of the Roman World
240 Dreaming of Italy
250 Building Baroque Europe
273 Modern Architecture and Design in Europe, 1789-1945
283 Architecture Since 1945
285 Great Cities
315 Studies in Roman Art: At Home in Pompeii
ARS (Art Studio)
161 Design Workshop I
162 Introduction to Digital Media
163 Drawing I
264 Drawing II
281/LSS 250 Landscape Studies Introductory Studio
283 Introduction to Architecture: Site and Space
285 Introduction to Architecture: Language and Craft
386 Topics in Architecture
388 Advanced Architecture: Complex Places, Multiple Spaces
390 Five College Drawing Seminar
BIO (Biology)
101 Modern Biology for the Concerned Citizen
103 Economic Botant: Plants and Human Affairs
110 Conservation Biology
120 Landscape Plants and Issues
121 Landscape Plants and Issues Laboratory
122 Horticulture
123 Horticulture Laboratory
154 Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation
155 Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory
202/203 Landscape Plants and Issues and Lab
204/205 Horticulture and Lab
240/241 Plant Biology and Lab
250/251 Plant Physiology and Lab
260/261
Principals of Ecology and Lab
262/263 Plant Biology/Laboratory
264/265 Plant Systematics/Laboratory
270 Biodiversity
356/357 Plant Ecology and Lab
364/365 Plant Ecology/Laboratory
366 Biogeography
CLT (Comparative Literature)
234 Adventure Novel: No Place for a Woman?
253 Literary Ecology
ECO (Economics)
123 Cheaper By The Dozen: Twelve Economic Issues For Our Times
224 Environmental Economics
EGR
(Engineering)
100 Engineering for Everyone (section 2)
101 Structures and the Built Environment
315 Ecohydrology
330 Engineering and Global Development
ENG (English)
120 (section 11) Reading the Landscape
EVS (Environmental Science & Policy)
150/GEO 150 Modeling Our World: An Introduction to Geographic Information
Systems
300 Seminar in Environmental Science and Policy
FYS (First Year Seminar)
134 Geology in the Field
136 People and the American City
141 Reading, Writing, and Placemaking: Landscape Studies
147 Science and Politics of Food, Water, and Energy
GEO (Geology)
104 Global Climate Change: Exploring The Past, The Present, and Options For The
Future
105 Natural Disasters: Earthquakes and Volcanos
106 Extraordinary Events in the History of Earth, Life, and Climate
109 The Environment
111 Into to Earth Processes and History
150/EVS 150 Modeling Our World:An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
161 Exploring the Local Geological Landscape
GER (German)
227 Topics In German Studies: Fantasies of the New World:
German Visions of America in Landscape, Painting and Film
227 Topics In German Studies: What Color Is The Earth? An Interdisciplinary Study
of Color in Art, Prose, Film
GOV (Government)
204 Urban Politics
207 Politics of Public Policy
254 Colloquium: Politics of the Global Environment
306 Seminar In American Government: Politics and the Environment
HST (History)
209 Aspects of Middle Eastern History: Urban Spaces/ Contested Places:
Social and Cultural Histories of Non-Western Cities
227 Aspects of Medieval European History: Paris from Its Origins through
the Sixteenth Century
279 Culture of American Cities
PHI (Philosophy)
238 Environmental Ethics
PPL (Public Policy)
222 US Environmental History and Policy
PSY (Psychology)
226 Society, Psychology, and Health
SOC (Sociolgy)
233 Environmental
Society
332 Seminar: Environment and Society
LSS 100 Issues in Landscape Studies
Topic for Spring 2008: Practicing Sustainability: Design, Development, and the Environment. Through readings and a series of lectures by Smith faculty and guests, we will examine the history and influences out of which Landscape Studies is emerging. We will look at the relationship of this new field with literary and cultural studies, art, art history, landscape architecture, history, biology, and environmental sciences. What is Landscape Studies? Where does it come from? Why is it important? How does it relate to, for instance, landscape painting and city planning? How does it link political and aesthetic agendas? What is its role in current sustainability debates and initiatives among architects, landscape architects, planners, and engineers?
Students may take this course twice for credit. S/U only.
(E) {H/S/A}
2 credits
Ann Leone, Director; Reid Bertone-Johnson
Offered Spring 2009
LSS 105 Introduction to Landscape Studies
Landscape Studies is a burgeoning new field at Smith College and is the first program of its kind at a liberal arts college in this country. This introductory course will be a chronological and thematic exploration of the issues that define the evolving field of landscape studies. Topics will range from ancient to contemporary, scientific to artistic, cultural to political, theoretical to practical. We will consider corporate, domestic, industrial, post-industrial, tourist, landfill, and agricultural landscapes from around the globe. Much of this course is new terrain, so be prepared for impromptu readings, discussions, and guest lectures as topics become topical, issues develop into debates, and events get announced. Priority given to LSS minors, and first and second years.
Enrollment limited to 30.
{H/S/A}
4 credits
Nina Antonetti
Offered Fall 2008
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LSS 200 Socialized Landscapes: Private Squalor and Public Affluence
Certain landscapes dissolve economic, political, social, cultural constructs to foster diversity on common ground. This course will trace the development of these socialized landscapes, specifically in Europe and North America in the last two centuries, as places of reform, respite, and refuge. Focusing on a series of case studies we will characterize what makes a place a socialized landscape, identify how it improves its community, and consider how a dysfunctional space might be transformed into a socialized landscape. This discussion-based course will have a practical component insofar as we will propose ways of socializing a real site for a client. Prerequisite: LSS 105 or permission of the instructor.
Enrollment limited to 20.
{H/S/A}
4 credits
Nina Antonetti
Offered Spring 2009
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LSS 210 Suburbia: The Middle Landscape
This course will explore suburbia as its own landscape and as a borderland between countryside and city. From the nineteenth-century town-planning initiatives in England to today’s sprawl in America, we will consider such communities as Port Sunlight near Liverpool, England; Shaker Heights, Ohio; Levittown, New York; Columbia, Maryland; and Celebration, Florida. Readings on culture, politics, economics, and regional planning will highlight some of the contradictions that plague the conception, development, and future of suburbia, most notably transportation/isolation, homogeneity/inclusion, safety/security, historicism/utopianism, biophilia/biophobia, conformity/comfort, and capitalism/pastoral aesthetic.
Prerequisite: LSS 105 or permission of the instructor
Enrollment limited to 20
(E) {H/S/A}
4 credits
Nina Antonetti
Offered Fall 2008
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LSS 250/ARS 281 Studio: Landscape and Narrative
This studio asks students to consider the landscape as a location of evolving cultural and ecological patterns, processes and histories. Beginning with readings and discussions students work through a series of projects that engage with the narrative potential of landscape and critically consider the environment as socially and culturally constructed. A variety of media are used in the design process including drawing, model-making, collage and photography. Prerequisites: two LSS courses or an equivalent accepted by the program or permission of the instructor.
Enrollment limited to 12.
{A/S}
4 credits
Reid Bertone-Johnson
Offered Fall 2008
LSS 255 Studio: Art and Ecology
Environmental designers are in the unique and challenging position of bridging the science of ecology and the art of place-making. This studio emphasizes the dual necessity for solutions to ecological problems that are artfully designed and artistic expressions that reveal ecological processes. Beginning with readings, precedent studies and in-depth site analysis, students will design a series of projects that explore the potential for melding art and ecology. Prerequisite: two LSS courses or an equivalent accepted by the program or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.
{A/S}
4 credits
Reid Bertone-Johnson
Offered Spring 2009
LSS 300 Rethinking Landscape
This capstone colloquium for the study of the built environment will explore myriad issues in design—including territory, expansion, sexuality, disjunction, fantasy, dwelling, memory, nationalism—in the context of critical approaches such as modernism, deconstruction, structuralism, post-structuralism, phenomenology, and gender. A full range of landscapes will be studied, from rural to urban, ancient to contemporary, east to west. A group project will culminate in independent research. By permission of the instructor. Priority given to LSS minors, and seniors and juniors.
Enrollment limited to 12.
{H/S/A}
4 credits
Nina Antonetti
Offered Spring 2009
LSS 404 Special Studies
Admission by permission of the instructor and director, for junior and senior minors. To be taken in conjunction with LSS 300.
4 credits
Nina Antonetti
Offered Spring 2009
Cross Listed Courses
ARS 283 Introduction to Architecture: Site and Space
The primary goal of this studio is to engage in the architectural design process as a mode of discovery and investigation. Design does not require innate spontaneous talent. Design is a process of discovery based on personal experience, the joy of exploration, and a spirited intuition. Gaining skills in graphic communication and model making, students will produce projects to illustrate their ideas and observations in response to challenging questions about the art and craft of space-making. Overall, this course will ask students to take risks intellectually and creatively, fostering a keener sensitivity to the built environment as something considered, manipulated, and made.
Prerequisite: one art history course at the 100 level.
Enrollment limited to 12.
{A} 4 credits
Jim Middlebrook
Offered Fall 2008
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ARS 285 Introduction to Architecture: Language and Craft
The primary goal of this studio is to gain insight into the representation of architectural space and form as a crafted place or object. Students will gain skills in graphic communication and model making, working in graphite, pen, watercolor, and other media. We will look at the architecture of the past and present for guidance and imagine the future through conceptual models and drawings. Overall, this course will ask students to take risks intellectually and creatively, fostering a keener sensitivity to the built environment as something considered, manipulated, and made.
Prerequisite: one art history course at the 100 level.
Enrollment limited to 12.
{A} 4 credits
Jim Middlebrook
Offered Spring 2009
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