Faculty of Agriculture Novi Sad Program: Landscape Architecture

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Faculty of Agriculture Novi SadProgram
Landscape Architecture

• The Program offers a 4-year curriculum, leading
  to the degree Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
  (BLA).

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• The Landscape Architecture Program at the
  Agricultural Faculty, University of Novi Sad was
  founded in 2005 and the first generation of
  students enrolled in October 2005.
• Altogether enrolled 84 students.
• The courses are performed by the academic staff
  of Agricultural Faculty, Faculty of Architecture,
  Academy of Arts.
• The Landscape Architecture Program was formed
  from the Horticulture Program founded in 1973
• The Landscape Architecture Curriculum consists of
  four categories of courses
• general courses 6
• production courses 16
• technical design courses 10
• art courses 2
• All the courses are one semestral.

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
  Study courses No. of workhours per week No. of workhours per week No. of workhours per week No. of credits
  First year I I II 60
01. Botany 02. Sociology 03. Active principles of ornamental plants 04. Plant physiology 05. Mathematics 01. Botany 02. Sociology 03. Active principles of ornamental plants 04. Plant physiology 05. Mathematics 22 31 22 22 22 6 6 6 6 6
Total Total 119 30
06. Geodesy 07. Descriptive Geometry and elements of greenspace drawing 08. Principles of economy 09. Machines in landscape architecture 06. Geodesy 07. Descriptive Geometry and elements of greenspace drawing 08. Principles of economy 09. Machines in landscape architecture 22 33 31 32 22 33 31 32 7 8 8 7
Total Total 118 118 30
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Second year
Second year III IV
10. Art 11. Urbanism and spatial planning 12. Basics of computer graphics 13. Soil science 14. History of landscape architecture 32 32 23 32 20 6 6 6 6 6
Total 139 30
14. Lawns 15. Basics of architecture and constructing 16. Fruit growing and viticulture 17. Floriculture 32 22 22 32 7 8 7 8
Total 108 30
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Third year
Third year V VI
18. Conifers in landscape architecture 19. Greenhouse plant production 20. Landscape ecology 21. Seed management of ornamental trees and shrubs 22. Elective 1 33 31 30 21 22 6 6 6 6 6
Total 115 30
23. Broadleaves in landscape architecture 24. Ornamental plant protection 25. Interior floriculture 26. Nursery production of ornamental trees and shrubs 27. Elective 2 33 42 22 22 22 6 6 6 6 6
Total 1311 30
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Fourth year
Fourth year VII VIII
27. Design of green spaces 28. Marketing in landscape architecture 29. Site management 30. Shaping of green spaces in floriculture 31. Practical training 33 20 22 33 04 6 6 6 6 6
Total 1012 30
32. Establishment and maintenance of greenery 33. Arrangements 34. Landscape management 35. Agroforestry and biotechnique of landscape greenery 36. Practical training 37. B.Sc. degree thesis 38. 15-day professional practice 33 22 22 31 04 10 6 6 6 6 3 3
Total credits 1112
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ELECTIVE COURSES
ELECTIVE COURSES ELECTIVE COURSES ELECTIVE COURSES ELECTIVE COURSES
III YEAR V VI No. of credits
01. Accounting and taxation 02. Pharmaceutical and aromatic herbs 03. Game management and wildlife protection 04. Soil reclamation 05. English language 22 22 22 22 22 6 6 6 6 6
06. Land management 07. Irrigation 08. Agronomy and vegetable farming 09. Devastated lands and recultivation 10. Fertilization of greenery 11. English language 22 22 22 22 22 22 6 6 6 6 6 6
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FORESTS OF VOJVODINA

• Area 2.151.300 ha
• Forest area 137.094 ha
• Of forests 6.37
• Forest area per capita 0.07 ha

COMMERCIAL FORESTS
NATIONAL PARKS
FOREST PROTECTED AREAS
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• Vojvodina is dominant agriculture area
• Harmonize demands of agriculture, forestry,
  natural protection
• Establishment of different greenery types in
  landscape (shelterbelts, eco networks, eco
  corridors, buffer zones, agroforestry production
  systems
• Spatial planning is not simple

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Horticulture

• established in 1973 within Institute of fruit
  production and viticulture
• first generation started in 1974/1975 school year
• 6 employees in lecturing
• from 1974 till 2004 110 students graduated B.Sc
  degree
• from 1988 till 1999 were not new generations of
  students
• in 1999 started new generation of students that
  studied subjects in accordance with new program

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Course Descriptions First-year courses are

• Botany - focuses on grass vegetation, colours and
  forms of herbaceous plants
• Plant physiology - focuses on mineral nutrition
• Geodesy - GIS and implementation of GPS, geodesy
  network and cadastre.
• Descriptive Geometry with the elements of
  greenspace drawing - the students learn to draw,
  to use and read technical documentation of
  landscape spaces and to develop tidiness,
  technical precision and consistency in the
  implementation of technical regulations and
  standards for drawing in this discipline
• Principles of economy the study of the basic
  economic principles
• Machines in landscape architecture - includes all
  types of machines used in nurseries,
  establishment and maintenance of landscape and
  urban greenery

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Second-year courses are

• Urbanism and spatial planning characteristics
  of urbanism in historical development, spatial
  planning and its goals. Development of spatial
  planning. Development of settlements in Vojvodina
  and Serbia. Legislation in spatial planning
• Basics of computer graphics - computer aided
  design of green spaces by modern computer
  programmes
• Soil science the study of soil types supporting
  the production and establishment of urban and
  landscape greenery
• History of garden and landscape architecture -
  basic knowledge of the significance and the
  history of development of gardening art,
  conditions affecting the origin, development and
  disappearance of garden compositions.
  Chronological and dialectic development of garden
  and park creativity in the particular cultural
  spheres of the world.
• Lawns - significance and classification of lawns,
  basic principles of lawn establishment. The
  criteria of plant species selection in the lawn
  agro-phytocenoses. The ratio of plant species in
  the mixtures. Composition and calculation of
  mixture ingredients.
• Basics of architecture and constructing
  knowledge related to the development

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• of architecture and constructing and their
  relationship. The role of building technique in
  architecture (construction materials,
  construction systems and parts of buildings),
  Architectural composition and the typology of
  residential, public and production buildings
• Fruit growing and viticulture - studies fruit
  trees and vine crop in the landscape, forms,
  colour
• Floriculture - study of flower species and
  varieties applied in parks, gardens and
  special-purpose features, as well as landscapes
  in general annual flower species, perennials,
  bulb species, tuberous species and rhizomes,
  ornamental grasses and ferns.

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Third-year courses are

• Conifers in landscape architecture - deals with
  conifers in green spaces.
• Greenhouse plant production - the technology of
  nursery stock production of ornamental trees,
  shrubs and flowers in glasshouses and
  plastic-covered greenhouses
• Landscape ecology - biosphere, diversity,
  landscapes...
• Seed management of ornamental trees and shrubs -
  fundamentals of seed management, seed collection,
  seed storage, sowing...
• Broadleaves in landscape architecture - deals
  with broadleaf trees in green spaces.
• Ornamental plant protection the study of the
  most important diseases and insect pests on
  ornamental trees and shrubs and flowers, as well
  as weeds and methods of suppression
• Interior Floriculture - production, cultivation
  and tending of house plants
• Nursery production of ornamental trees and shrubs
  - technology of production of ornamental tree and
  shrub planting material

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Fourth-year courses are

• Design of green spaces - design of green spaces,
  park, square, yard, block greenery, etc.
• Marketing in landscape architecture the aim of
  the course is to develop the marketing approach
• Site management- students are introduced to the
  documentation necessary for the beginning and
  termination of works on the establishment of
  greenery
• Shaping of green spaces in floriculture the aim
  of the course is the application of modern trends
  in the creation of green-floral spaces
• Establishment and maintenance of greenery
  introduction to the works undertaken during the
  establishment and tending of greenery
• Arrangements - basic styles of arrangement,
  significance of colour, forms tools and
  equipment
• Landscape management - landscape planning,
  methods and principles landscape elements, the
  original and secondary structure of landscapes
• Agroforestry and biotechnique of landscape
  greenery - agroforestry systems (design,
  establishment), as landscape elements in
  agricultural regions, phyto-remediation, eco-
  network, eco-corridors, buffer zones, zones of
  restoration, cores of biodiversity...

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Practical training

• in the nurseries, enterprises for the design,
  establishment and maintenance of green spaces.