Study Landscape Architecture and learn from industry experts. Gain an international perspective on Landscape Architecture. Pick up language and culture skills by studying in another exciting part of the world.
Department Recommendations
Prospective Landscape Architecture Students
Ensure that the Landscape Architecture courses you propose taking abroad meet University of Minnesota Landscape Architecture course requirements (some may not). Your academic adviser will work with the Landscape Architecture Program Director to help you try to obtain approval once you are admitted to the Landscape Architecture program.
Landscape Architecture Track
Be sure to meet with your academic adviser to fill out an Academic Planning Form.
Internship Requirement
Consult with your academic adviser to discuss how to fulfill your internship requirement. This should be done during the planning process prior to the study abroad experience.
Liberal Education
You can fulfill liberal education requirements while abroad. Decide early which requirements you want to satisfy through courses taken abroad, so you don't fulfill them on campus. Consult the Learning Abroad Center's U Credit Abroad Search to find courses that have already been evaluated, or to submit courses online to be evaluated for liberal education requirements.
Landscape Design & Planning Track
Be sure to meet with your academic adviser to fill out an Academic Planning Form.
Best time to go abroad
- Any summer or May session
- Possibly a semester with careful and early planning
- Year 3 spring semester or Year 4 fall semester
Internship Requirement
Consult with your academic adviser to discuss how to fulfill your internship requirement. This should be done during the planning process prior to the study abroad experience.
Liberal Education
You can fulfill liberal education requirements while abroad. Decide early which requirements you want to satisfy through courses taken abroad, so you don't fulfill them on campus. Consult the Learning Abroad Center's U Credit Abroad Search to find courses that have already been evaluated or to submit courses online to be evaluated for liberal education requirements.
Be aware that study abroad courses may not meet multiple requirements
Some University of Minnesota courses are approved to meet multiple requirements. For example, one course may count toward your liberal education requirements AND meet a requirement in your major. Study abroad courses may not meet multiple requirements.
Upon Return from Study Abroad
Meet with your academic adviser to discuss the study abroad return process and to go over re-entry resources to help you make your learning abroad experience a meaningful component of your academic and career pathway.
Programs
Africa & the Middle East
Senegal
Designing for Black Liberatory Futures: Back to Senegal
- May Term 2027, open to all students
- Led by Terresa Hardaway, Associate Professor of Graphic Design
- Using an Afrofuturist and Pan-Africanist lens, explore values, policies, and design practices in Senegal that could reimagine Black futures in the United States.
- Understand new ways to decolonize your understanding of design impact on society.
- Meet with Senegalese community members and learn ways to help heal our communities, promote abolitionist principles, and advance collective liberation.
- Fulfills the Race, Power, & Justice Liberal Education requirement. Consult with your academic adviser to see if this program will meet major or minor degree requirements.
Asia & Oceania
Australia
- This program is available each semester
- Complete a 3-credit internship, which allows you to integrate with Australians, experience the local culture first-hand, and gain professional skills
- Focus on job training, career networking, and resume building in an international setting
IFSA Australia: University of Melbourne
- Offered each fall and spring semester, academic year, and calendar year
- Choose from courses throughout the university, including those in garden history and contemporary design, soil and water resources, turf grass science and management, and landscape studies
Europe
Ireland
University Study in Ireland—University College Dublin
- Offered each fall semester, spring semester, and academic year
- Choose from classes throughout the university, including those in such subjects as horticulture, sports turf management, landscape management, and social & therapeutic horticulture
Italy
- The Design in Sicily is a 7-week program offered in Siracusa, Italy during Summer Session. A College of Design instructor accompanies the program and teaches a 3-credit studio course open to all students. Earn 6-7 credits as you make Sicily your classroom. Consult with your academic adviser to see if this program will meet major or minor degree requirements
- Engage in the design process with local and international designers through coursework and a collaborative practicum
- Create visual projects in response to your Italian experience, honing your own sensibilities as a designer in the rich visual culture of Italy
- Engage with the theme of how meaning is created through both the still and the moving image, and you will engage in hands-on explorations through a variety of forms of visual representation including drawing from observation and imagination, illustration, photography, video, and collage
United Kingdom, England
- Offered each fall and spring semester, academic year, and summer term
- You may take coursework plus a for-credit internship
IFSA United Kingdom: University of Sussex
- Offered each fall semester, spring semester, and academic year
- Enroll in courses in one of 12 colleges; 7 are devoted to the arts and social sciences, and 5 to the sciences and engineering
Additional Options to Consider
- 3-week, 3-credit programs at the 3000-level led by University of Minnesota faculty and staff over winter break or May session.
- Explore an exciting location and topic, Fulfill Liberal Education requirements, or earn major/minor credit.
- Check out additional LAC Instructor-led Seminars that might run over winter break, spring break, May, and summer sessions. They vary in length, dates, and content so students can find one that best fits their academic and professional goals.
- Begin your language study or work toward completing requirements for a language minor.
- Complete a semester of language on a short-term program or explore options to complete two or more semesters of language on semester-long program.