Courses
Related Courses
Listed below are courses that may count toward the Landscape Studies minor. All courses are not offered every year. Check the Smith College Course Catalog for current offerings.
American Studies
| AMS 201 |
Introduction to the Study of American Society and Culture |
| AMS 220 |
Colloquium: In the 'burbs: Culture, Politics, Identity (Steve Waksman) |
| AMS 302 |
The Material Culture of New England, 1630-1860 |
Anthropology
| ANT 230 |
Africa: Population, Health, and Environmental Issues |
| ANT 233 |
History of Anthropological Theory |
| ANT 236 |
Economy, Ecology, and Society |
| ANT 252 |
The City and the Countryside in China |
| ANT 352 |
Anthropology of Multiculturalism |
Art History
| ARH 101 |
Realism: The Desire to Record the World |
| ARH 140 |
Introduction to Art: Western Traditions |
| ARH 216 |
Art and Architecture of the Roman World |
| ARH 223 |
Architecture in East Asia (Cross-Listed with East Asian Studies) |
| ARH 280 |
Making Modern Visual Culture |
| ARH 283 |
Architecture Since 1945 |
| ARH 285 |
Great Cities: Pompeii |
| ARH 315 |
Studies in Roman Art: At Home in Pompeii |
Studio Art
| ARS 161 |
Design Workshop I |
| ARS 162 |
Introduction to Digital Media |
| ARS 163 |
Drawing I |
| ARS 164 |
Three Dimensional Design |
| ARS 173 |
Cross-Disciplinary Foundations: 3D and Time-Based |
| ARS 264 |
Drawing II |
| ARS 266 |
Painting I |
ARS 281/
LSS 250 |
Landscape Studies Introductory Studio |
| ARS 283 |
Introduction to Architecture: Site and Space |
| ARS 285 |
Introduction to Architecture: Language and Craft |
| ARS 386 |
Topics in Architecture |
| ARS 388 |
Advanced Architecture: Complex Places, Multiple Spaces |
| ARS 389 |
Broad-Scale Design and Planning (Cross-Listed with Landscape Studies) |
| ARS 390 |
Five College Drawing Seminar |
Biology
| BIO 101 |
Modern Biology for the Concerned Citizen |
| BIO 103 |
Economic Botany: Plants and Human Affairs |
| BIO 110 |
Conservation Biology |
| BIO 120 |
Landscape Plants and Issues |
| BIO 121 |
Landscape Plants and Issues Laboratory |
| BIO 122 |
Horticulture |
| BIO 123 |
Horticulture Laboratory |
| BIO 154 |
Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation |
| BIO 155 |
Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory |
| BIO 180 |
BIO/GEO Avery Brook |
BIO 202/
203 |
Landscape Plants and Issues and Lab |
BIO 204/
205 |
Horticulture and Lab |
BIO 240/
241 |
Plant Biology and Lab |
BIO 250/
251 |
Plant Physiology and Lab |
BIO 260/
261 |
Principals of Ecology and Lab |
BIO 262/
263 |
Plant Biology/Laboratory |
BIO 264/
265 |
Plant Systematics/Laboratory |
| BIO 266 |
Principles of Ecology |
| BIO 267 |
Principles of Ecology Laboratory |
| BIO 268 |
Marine Biology |
| BIO 269 |
Marine Biology Laboratory |
| BIO 270 |
Biodiversity |
BIO 356/
357 |
Plant Ecology and Lab |
BIO 364/
365 |
Plant Ecology |
| BIO 365 |
Plant Ecology Laboratory |
| BIO 366 |
Biogeography |
| BIO 390 |
Topics In Environmental Biology |
Chemistry
| CHM 108 |
Environmental Chemistry |
Comparative Literature
| CLT 100 |
The Pleasures of Reading |
| CLTxx |
What and Where is Main Street (PENDING CAP APPROVAL) |
| CLT 234 |
Adventure Novel: No Place for a Woman? |
| CLT 253 |
Literary Ecology |
| CLT 274 |
The Garden: Paradise and Battlefield |
| CLT 288 |
Bitter Homes and Gardens |
East Asian Studies
| EAS 223 |
Architecture in East Asia |
Economics
| ECO 123 |
Cheaper By The Dozen: Twelve Economic Issues For Our Times |
| ECO 213 |
The World Food System |
| ECO 224 |
Environmental Economics |
| ECO 230 |
Urban Economics |
| ECO 324 |
Economics of Water Resources |
Engineering
| EGR 100 |
Engineering for Everyone:Energy and the Environment |
| EGR 101 |
Structures and the Built Environment |
| EGR 315 |
Ecohydrology |
| EGR 319/ GEO 309 |
Groundwater Geology |
| EGR 330 |
Engineering and Global Development |
English
| ENG 120 |
Reading the Landscape |
| ENG 120 |
Literatures of the American West |
| ENG 238 |
What Jane Austin Read: 18th Century Novel |
| ENG 382 |
Reading of the American Landscape |
Environmental Science & Policy
| ENV 100 |
Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field |
| ENV 101 |
Environmental Integration I |
ENV 150/
GEO 150 |
Modeling Our World:An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 300 Seminar in Environmental Science and Policy |
| ENV 300 |
Seminar in Environmental Science and Policy |
| ENV 311 |
Environmental Integration III: Interpreting and Communicating Information |
| ENV 312 |
Environmental Integration IV: Sustainable Solutions |
| ENV 320 |
Environmental Justice |
French
| FRN 230 |
Dream Places and Nightmare Spaces |
| FRN 244 |
Cities of Light |
| FRN 275 |
Fiction by Design |
First-Year Seminars
| FYS 100 |
Food for Thought |
| FYS 101 |
Envisioning the Wasteland |
| FYS 103 |
Geology in the Field |
| FYS 136 |
People and the American City |
| FYS 141 |
Reading, Writing, and Placemaking: Landscape Studies |
| FYS 147 |
Science and Politics of Food, Water, and Energy |
| FYS 158 |
Reading the Earth |
| FYS 191 |
Sense and Essence in Nature |
Geology/Geosciences
| GEO 101 |
Introduction to the Earth Processes and the Earth History |
| GEO 102 |
Exploring Our Local Geographical Landscape |
| GEO 104 |
Global Climate Change: Exploring The Past, The Present, and Options For The Future |
| GEO 105 |
Natural Disasters: Earthquakes and Volcanos |
| GEO 106 |
Extraordinary Events in the History of Earth, Life, and Climate |
| GEO 109 |
The Environment |
| GEO 111 |
Into to Earth Processes and History |
GEO 150/
ENV 150 |
Modeling Our World:An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems |
| GEO 161 |
Exploring the Local Geological Landscape |
| GEO 251 |
Geomorphology |
German
| GER 227 |
Topics In German Studies: Fantasies of the New World: German Visions of America in Landscape, Painting and Film |
| GER 227 |
Topics In German Studies: What Color Is The Earth? An Interdisciplinary Study of Color in Art, Prose, Film |
Government
| GOV 204 |
Urban Politics |
| GOV 207 |
Politics of Public Policy |
| GOV 254 |
Colloquium: Politics of the Global Environment |
| GOV 306 |
Seminar In American Government: Politics and the Environment |
History
| HST 209 |
Aspects of Middle Eastern History: Urban Spaces/ Contested Places: Social and Cultural Histories of Non-Western Cities |
| HST 227 |
Aspects of Medieval European History: Paris from Its Origins through the Sixteenth Century |
| HST 279 |
Culture of American Cities |
Latin American Studies
| LAS 201 |
Environment and Society in the History of LAtin America |
Philosophy
| PHI 238 |
Environmental Ethics |
| PHI 304 |
Colloquium in Applied Ethics: Sustainability |
Public Policy
| PPL 222 |
US Environmental History and Policy |
Presidential Seminars
| PRS 198 |
The Global Coffee Trail |
| PRS 308 |
Urbanization in the 21st Century: Comparative Prospects, Problems and Policies |
| PRS 321 |
Big Green Books |
Psychology
| PSY 226 |
Society, Psychology, and Health |
Sociology
| SOC 233 |
Environment and Society |
| SOC 332 |
Seminar: Environment and Society |
Spanish and Portuguese
| SPN 221 |
Eco Brazil: Key Environmental Issues? |
| POR 381 |
Seminar: Brasil Profundo: Landscape and the Environmental Imaginary in Brazilian Culture |
