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Graduate
Admission
The next admission date will be Fall 2007. Applicants must submit
both the Graduate Division application (on-line) and departmental
application (PDF format). Both applications will be available from
the web after October 1, 2006. The completed applications must be
submitted or postmarked by either December 15, 2006 for PhD or
January 5, 2007 for MLA.
Admission is for the fall semester only.
Prospective undergraduate students should address inquiries to the Undergraduate Environmental Design Office, 232 Wurster Hall, (510) 642-0832. If you would like M.L.A./PhD information to be sent to you, please contact the Graduate Office and include a postal address.
Application Procedure for the Master's Program
The following material should be submitted to the Graduate Admissions
Committee of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental
Planning by the above deadline. It is the applicant's responsibility
to make sure that all required materials are submitted. The department
is not able to contact applicants whose files are not complete.
You may call the Graduate Office at (510) 642-2965 to determine
the status of your file after January 26, 2007.
- Fall
2007 Departmental Application
- Statement of purpose for entering the graduate program
- Resume‚ or biographical summary, including professional work experience
- Two sets of official transcripts from all colleges or universities attended since high school
- Three letters of recommendation evaluating academic and professional competence
- Photocopy of GRE or TOEFL scores (for review purposes only). The Graduate Division requires official GRE and TOEFL scores
- Exhibit
of Professional and Creative Work
- The Graduate Division application is available from the Graduate Division Website.
To print these forms you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader which you may download for free from Adobe.
Required Examinations
Domestic applicants must take the Graduate Record Examination and
have their scores reported to the Graduate Division by the Educational
Testing Service. The written form of the GRE must be taken by November.
The Computer-Based Test (CBT) must be taken by December. Please
note that the GRE test must have been taken after June 2002. Further
information is available at http://www.gre.org.
Applicants from non-English-speaking countries are not required
to take the GRE, but they must take the TOEFL examination. TOEFL
must have been taken after June 2005. Foreign applicants who have
baccalaureate degrees from educational institutions in which instruction
was in English must take the GRE rather than the TOEFL. Further
information on TOEFL exam is available from http://www.toefl.org.
MLA Applicants
- From English-Speaking countries: GRE scores required
- All others: TOEFL scores required (minimum 570 written; 230 CBT)
Application Procedures for the Ph.D. Program
Applicants for the Ph.D. Program should follow the procedure for the master's program (see above) and include an additional statement describing special areas of research interest. Examples of research and professional work must be submitted on 8 1/2" x 11" unbound sheets with no limit as to quantity. In addition, international applicants must take the following tests: TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and GRE (Graduate Record Exam).
PhD Applicants
- From English-Speaking countries: GRE scores required
- All others: GRE and TOEFL (minimum 570) scores required
Visits to Campus
Interviews are not required. However, visits to the Berkeley campus are strongly encouraged. Applicants who wish to visit the campus must make prior arrangements if they would like to talk to either the student affairs officer or specific faculty members. Potential students often arrive without notice and are disappointed to find that faculty members are not available for consultation.
Appointments should be made at least one month before a visit to Berkeley. Applicants may set up an appointment with the student affairs officer in the Graduate Office by calling (510) 642-2965. Faculty telephone numbers and Email addresses are available from this website and applicants should contact the faculty directly to set up appointments. Please note that faculty members keep their own calendars, and it is not possible for departmental staff to set up appointments. Faculty members meet with potential applicants during the following time periods only: September 1-December 1 (fall semester) and February 1-May 1 (spring semester).
Recommended Book-list for Applicants
| Appleyard, Donald |
Livable Streets |
| Bosselmann, Peter |
Representation of Places, 1998 |
Cooper Marcus, Clare
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Housing as if People Mattered |
| Cranz, Galen |
The Politics of Park Design |
| Duane, Timothy |
Shaping the Sierra |
| Eckbo, Garret |
Urban Landscape Design |
| Halprin, Lawrence |
Cities |
| Hester, Randolph |
Community Design Primer |
| Hester, Randolph |
Neighborhood Space |
| Hood, Walter |
Urban Diaries |
| Hough, Michael |
City Form and Natural Process |
| Jackson, J.B. |
The Necessity for Ruins and other topics |
| Jacobs, Allan B. |
Looking at Cities |
Laurie, Michael
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An Introduction to Landscape Architecture |
| Leopold, Luna B. |
Water in Environmental Planning |
| Lynch, Kevin |
Site Planning |
| Meier, Richard |
Design of Resource Conserving Cities |
| McHarg, Ian |
Design with Nature |
| Michelson, W. |
Behavioral Research Methods in Environmental
Design |
| Newton, Norman |
Design on the Land |
| Relph, Edward |
Place and Placelessness |
| Simonds, John |
Landscape Architecture |
| Southworth, Michael & Susan |
Maps |
| Southworth, Michael and Tridib Banerjee, eds. |
City Sense and City Design: Writings and
Projects of Kevin Lynch |
| Spirn, Ann |
The Granite Garden |
| Sullivan, Charles |
Drawing the Landscape |
| Walker, Peter and Simo, Melanie |
Invisible Gardens |
| Whyte, William H. |
Social Life of Small Urban Places |
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