The Master of City Planning’s Land Use and Environmental Planning concentration prepares students to accommodate population and economic growth while preserving farm and resource lands, promoting clean air and water, and reducing the carbon footprint of cities and suburbs.
The Master in Environmental Building Design (MEBD) is a professionally oriented, two-semester, post-professional degree focused on the integration of performance analysis and architectural design.
The MSD in Environmental Building Design (MSD-EBD) is a research-oriented, four-semester, post-professional degree focused on innovation in the integration of performance analysis and architectural design.
Landscape Architecture offers two primary courses of study leading to a professionally accredited Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA). The first professional degree program is three years in length and is designed for students with an undergraduate degree in a field other than landscape architecture or architecture. The second professional degree is two years in length and is designed for those who already hold an accredited bachelor’s degree in either landscape architecture or architecture.
The Certificate in Landscape Studies is a five-course program offered by the Department of Landscape Architecture, open to students enrolled in other programs across the School of Design and the broader university.
The certificate in Environmental Building Design is open to students enrolled in the Master of Architecture program only. The students will take 3 CUs of required courses and 2 CUs in a jointly counted studio. Students in the Master of Architecture degree are eligible to apply for the Certificate in Environmental Building Design after they arrive at Penn, allowing them to join the program in their 7000 year with the incoming cohort of MEBD/MSD-EBD students in 7520 and 7080. The other courses, 7510, 7530 and 7540 can be taken by M.Arch. students independently of their acceptance into the certificate.
This certificate draws on the resilience expertise within the Weitzman School and is intended for professional graduate students enrolled at Weitzman School interested in adding an understanding of urban resilience, and how to design within a risky and uncertain world, to their list of educational qualifications.
The Certificate in Ecological Architecture helps students develop an understanding of the dynamic interaction between the natural and built environments and introduces performance-based techniques for operating in that interaction, spanning scales from landscapes to products.
The Certificate in Ecological Planning draws on courses across the School of Design, the Environmental Studies Program, and other schools to offer an interdisciplinary approach to planning that accounts for natural cycles, carrying capacity, and the growing impacts of climate change on ecosystems and human settlements.