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The Landscape Studies program
at Smith will be the first in a liberal arts undergraduate
college in the United States.
Without Smith's Landscape Studies Program, I would not be
where I am today. As a Smith alumna, I am currently working
for landscape architect Nancy Denig, another Smith alum who
received her master's in landscape architecture from UMass
Amherst. Although I graduated with a degree in psychology
and did not follow through with a landscape studies minor,
Smith's fledgling LSS program helped me to discover a new
direction in life, and led me to a career in landscape architecture
that I never would have found otherwise... More
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I've been interested in
the Landscape Studies program since I took French 230, Dream
Places and Nightmare Spaces, with Ann Leone which dealt with
the literary description and evolution of gardens, primarily
in France but briefly touching on English and American Landscapes...
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Up until about two weeks
ago I had absolutely no idea which major—or even general
area—I wanted to pursue. And now I get so excited whenever
someone asks me what I want to study—a question to which
I was formerly unable to give anything even resembling a straightforward
answer—I wonder why I didn’t realize it sooner...
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I came to Smith College
knowing that most of my course work would be in the sciences,
but without any certain determination of a major. I started
fulfilling premed requirements (physics, chemistry, calculus,
biology, and English) as I have a profound interest in medicine
and intend to apply to medical school in 2005. My major is
now mathematics and my passion for its rhythm and logic grows
with each day... More
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I interned with the Northampton
Office of Planning and Development for four months this fall,
working on several projects. The two most exciting included
a program assessment of the Council on Aging's home repair
program and a federal report called the Analysis of Impediments
to Fair Housing Choice. Both projects focused on networking
with local non-profits, plowing through federal requirements,
and independently compiling information from City records,
community leaders, and participant interviews... More
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This summer I lived in Boston
and am currently spending one of my junior semesters in Washington
DC. It is not my interest in Landscape Studies that brings
me to either place, but I am increasingly finding that it
is my background in Landscape Studies that most often influences
how I feel, behave and learn to understand these cities. Reading
maps only gets me so far, instead, paying attention to the
layout of the streets, how people use the spaces in the city
and how different elements in the landscape relate to each
other teaches me the most about how to live and participate
as a new resident... More
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While I am not a Landscape
Studies minor, I became interested in the program at its beginnings,
taking the LSS 100 course twice consecutively and Professor
Leone's comparative literature course "Bitter Homes and
Gardens." I also audited Nina Antonetti's course on the
history of landscape architecture in the spring of 2002. I
approached landscape studies from a literary and artistic
perspective. I major in English and my minor is Architectural
History, which overlaps somewhat with Landscape Studies...
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I'd always appreciated the
landscapes surrounding me, although it was in an abstract,
undefined way. It was at Smith that I first began to identify
and analyze the elemental role of landscape in my existence
as well as in the greater human experience. My interest in
landscape studies arose from a great love of the French countryside
and a fascination with historic gardens. I went to France
my junior year primarily focused on language, culture, and
literature, and I came away seeking to integrate those fields
of study with my burgeoning passion for gardens. This proved
easier than I had anticipated... More
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