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Nina
Antonetti, pictured with her students in the Smith College museum, uses Thomas Child Farrer's painting, View of
Northampton from the Dome of the Hospital, 1865, to illustrate
the concept of a landscape, as well as changes that affect
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The
multi-disciplinary field of Landscape Studies is the crossroads
where environmental science, public policy, the social sciences,
biology, and engineering connect with literary studies,
art history, architecture, and landscape architecture to
explore how we shape our world, from natural spaces to buildings
and road systems.
We believe that Smith
has the most comprehensive curriculum for the study of the
built environment -- landscape and
buildings -- of any liberal arts college in the United
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Smith's campus is a botanic garden and an arboretum,
an historic landscape designed by the firm of
Frederic Law Olmsted, the creator of Central Park.
Our museum, libraries, rare book room, the campus
itself, and our curriculum together form a unique,
rich archive and laboratory for the study of human
interactions with the spaces and places we inhabit. |
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The Five
Colleges -- Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke,
and the University of Massachusetts -- are collectively
a hotbed of academic, artistic, and activist involvement
with the environment. University professors of landscape
architecture and regional planning welcome our students
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Our physical
setting in the Connecticut River Valley makes us part
of one of the most fertile agricultural landscapes in
the country; the Valley is also a major academic, cultural,
and recreational area and lies 90 minutes from Boston
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LSS minors have
major concentrations in areas across the curriculum, from
Art, French, and English to American Studies, Government,
Sociology, Psychology, Biology, Environmental Science and
Policy, and Engineering. Students who want to build careers
on their interest in Landscape Studies pursue pathways
for internships and as candidates for graduate studies
in:
Carol
Lapham Valentine '32, conservationist
Lynden
Breed Miller '60, garden designer
Susan
Komroff Cohen '62, principal, Susan Cohen Landscape Architects
Signe
Nielsen '72, professor, Pratt Institute of Architecture
Shavaun
Towers '71, partner, Towers/Golde Site Planners and Landscape
Architects
Cornelia
Hahn Oberlander '44, pioneer of socially conscious landscape
design
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