Graduate study leading to a Master of Landscape Architecture degree is offered in the Department of Landscape Architecture; thesis and non-thesis options are available. Students in the program have the opportunity to work with faculty on a wide range of research and design topics within the profession of landscape architecture. Special program emphasis is placed on watershed planning, landscape management, and community planning and design. The design studio courses broadly consider landscape issues related to water, health, and habitat in an effort to achieve the department’s mission of "fostering the will and ability to plan, design, build and manage regenerative communities.”