New Landscape Architecture Ph.D. Students Onboarding, Advising, & Registration: Fall Term

You are invited to Grad Day! Each year, we welcome admitted graduate students to Grad Day to hear about the programs and opportunities.

Getting Started: If you accepted the offer of admission, you will receive an onboarding orientation invitation series from Student Services (archadvisor@uoregon.edu) in the spring term that will walk you through what you need to know to get started at the UO. In the meantime, please review the following:

  1. Claim Your Duck ID*
  2. Program Start Date: See the fall term on the UO Academic Calendar

Don’t forget to join your Facebook group for Landscape Architecture students and take a virtual tour!


Graduate Funding:


LA Term Meeting:

All Landscape Student Faculty Staff Meeting:

  • First day of fall term at 1:00 p.m. (location TBD) Landscape all-school student/faculty/staff meeting

 SAE Departmental Academic Advising:

Though we will not be holding in-person advising appointments, we are working outside of the office Monday–Friday to continue to advise and assist students through virtual appointments.

Landscape Architecture Academic Advising

Contact your supervising faculty directly for course registration planning.

All independent study courses (ARCH 601 Research, ARCH 605 Reading, ARCH 606 Special Topics require a Pre-authorization form to be completed in cooperation with and sent in by supervising faculty before the start of the term.

SAE academic & new student advising: Email archadvisor@uoregon.edu


Ph.D. Registration, Schedule of Classes, Academic Calendars:

*If all of your UO admission documents were received, your UO ID number and PAC number notification should have been emailed to you from the UO Graduate School. If you have received this notification, please claim your Duck ID.


Ph.D. Fall Term Registration:

All independent study courses (ARCH 601 Research, ARCH 605 Reading, ARCH 606 Special Topics require a Pre-authorization form:

Your supervising faculty will automatically get a request for approval after you complete the online form. This should be done prior to the start of the term. This information will be covered during in-person orientation prior to Fall term.

Landscape Architetecture Ph.D Fall start In-Person Orientation September 15th & 16th


Individualized Study Courses & Pre-Authorization Form:

All independent study courses (ARCH 601 Research, ARCH 605 Reading, ARCH 606 Special Topics require a Pre-authorization form to be completed in cooperation with and sent in by a supervising faculty prior to the start of the term.


Housing and Employment:


SAE Hardware and Software Requirements:

Digital tools are necessary for all landscape architects. The department requires all students to have unlimited access to their own personal computers. Because of the professional application of complex graphic programs and large data files for most coursework, the department’s computer requirements exceed the average user’s computing needs. See the College of Design Student Computer Purchasing Guide for recommended specifications and departmental requirements. In addition to hardware requirements, please note the department’s specific software requirements and recommendations.


COVID-19 Special Notes:

Many campus entities are maintaining official pages with COVID-19 updates and where possible we will refer to these pages.

The Office of Academic Advising is maintaining resource pages with the most up to date information on University response and policy changes with regard to COVID-19 at https://advising.uoregon.edu/

The graduate school is maintaining a page with the latest details for Graduate school policy and operations changes at https://gradschool.uoregon.edu/

The School of Architecture and Environment will adhere to the University of Oregon’s decisions. Please refer to this page for the latest updates at https://www.uoregon.edu/coronavirus.


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