The Major Courses Overlaps with the Design Process in Landscape Architecture

The landscape design is a profession that meets special cases like analysis, planning, design and management of natural and man-made environments and the humans’ needs. The master program of landscape architecture taught in universities is planned by supreme council of art and has been prepared for educational institutions. This program seeks training professionals in design and implementation of open spaces. But the lack of coordination between training contents and design process has resulted in the disruption of objectives and content of courses. This study is based on descriptive analytical method and analyzes current process of landscape architecture contents based on the documentations and management's perspectives. The result is that although the contents of landscape architecture are in line with the process, the training is not in accordance with the purpose of lessons and also arrangements in training courses do not comply with the design process, the relationship between course contents and the relevance of each lesson with its intended purpose is not achieved, and then courses will not be offered in the best way.