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The landscape minor offers students an opportunity to acquire an understanding of the use, management, history and interpretation of human interaction with the land. The minor will be especially important to students majoring in Environmental Studies, Geography, Water Resources Management, Real Estate and Business, but is not limited to these groups.
Accreditation
For information regarding accreditation at UNLV, please head over to Academic Program Accreditations.
Learning Outcomes
- Communicate effectively in written, spoken, visual and digital modes.
- Conduct and apply research in relevant precedents and historic traditions, including global and multicultural societies.
- Demonstrate understanding of formal ordering systems.
- Design sites, facilities and systems that respond to site and climate.
- Design sites, facilities and systems which reflect basic life safety and accessibility issues.
- Describe the basic principles of structural behavior and system selection and environmental control system design.
- Describe the relationship between human behavior, the natural environment, and the built environment.
- Explain the designer’s role in society and the means of carrying out that role through informed, responsible and ethical decision making.
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School of Architecture
The School of Architecture provides professional and continuing education in the design professions of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, and design. Along with addressing the theoretical and practical aspects of general design education, our school focuses on the important design issues facing Las Vegas, the state of Nevada, and the Southwest.
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College of Fine Arts
The College of Fine Arts provides an academic experience that heightens awareness of the physical, intellectual, and cultural world. We diligently prepare students for professional employment and/or post-graduate study in their artistic area.