Ideologies of Landscape - Considers built landscapes and landscape representations through a series of critical frames such as the ongoing link between patronage, power and the landscape; and speaking back to power through the landscape. Specific subjects include Roman gardens; Chinese scholar gardens and monumental landscape painting; English landscape gardens involving the picturesque and sublime; Japanese Zen rock gardens; the idealization of the American West through landscape painting; and environmentalism in contemporary landscape architecture. Course combines creative and analytical work. The class will make several field trips to local and regional gardens. 1 unit -- Bentley and Kolarik