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SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
The Inter-University Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture seeks to provide students with a complete, updated formation, oriented towards the acquisition of knowledge, instruments and methodologies needed for the profession of the Landscape Architect, as according to Italian legislation and with relation to the contemporary (also international) job market. It achieves an integration of knowledge and skills in the fields of planning and management of landscape to various scales; it provides students with the skills to cooperate with other professional figures in the fields of Architecture, Engineering and Natural, Agronomic and Forest Sciences, of other Social and Humanist Sciences; and this takes place through a constant improvement of the students’ skills, in turn continuously adjusted to the increasingly urgent physical and social transformations.These tasks require a broadening of the knowledge, towards subjects which are more and more relevant to the landscape project, turning the Landscape Architect towards an increasingly more holistic direction.  

In this sense, within the framework of the objectives of the Class LM-3, the specific objectives of the Course seek to respond to the necessities defined in the documents of various national and international organisms, which are considered essential points of reference for this document and for the general organization of the Degree. This is done also to guarantee an international accreditation of the Degree, through the procedures established by international organisms, in particular IFLA Europe. This accreditation fully corresponds to the EU validations established for the Postgraduate Degrees in other classes. 

In particular, the following represent this Study Course’s points of reference: 
1. The Recommendations of the European Landscape Convention (Florence, 2000) (L. n.14/9.01.2006) that refer to the formation of specialists in the knowledge of and intervention on landscape, to the activation of University courses on Landscape and the issues concerning its safeguard, management, planning and design (art. 6 B, 8); the Recommendations of the Code of the Cultural and Landscape Heritage (D.M. 14/2004 and following modifications, art. 132, comma 3 – Cooperation among public administrations) with reference to formative and educational activities that aim at disseminating and improving the knowledge of themes related to landscape. 

2. The guidelines for the formation of the Landscape Architect, as according to the IFLA Europe (International Foundation of Landscape Architect, section Europe) in the Declaration of Bruxelles of 1989;
3. The recommendations of ECLAS (European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools), with reference to the cooperation IFLA-ECLAS. Sapienza University has been present in ECLA for more than fifteen years via the proponents and it is currently present in the Executive Committee of ECLAS); 
4. UNISCAPE documents, European Network for the dissemination and the application of the European Landscape Convention, of which Sapienza was among the underwriting members from foundation, and in which it is active via the proponents; 
5. The New Landscape Declaration (LAF, Landscape Architects Foundation, Philadelphia 2016), which redefines the global role of the Landscape Architect, broadens the range of his/her action in two direction: on the one hand, towards the coordination of “contiguous professions, through new alliances”; on the other, towards a more holistic and humanist direction, “so to give a physical, artistic and functional form, to the ideals of equality, sustainability, resilience and democracy”. 

Therefore, the qualifying learning objectives take on specialized connotations by integrating planning skills – such as analysis, planning and management of landscape – through a twofold filter. On the one hand, it focuses attention on the entire formative process, on critical themes such as sustainability, the sharing and development of objectives, processes and achievements, in order to increase social awareness; on the other, it integrates units which can broaden the field of knowledge, with reference both to the scientific and technical-operative formation, and to humanist aspects. 

In order to respond to the previously mentioned documents’ inputs, these objectives will thus be achieved through the constant mediation between various aspects of the planning process, continuously verifying the relationship between technical, creative and communicative components.

With reference to the notions of interdisciplinarity, there are different contributions from the involved branches that enhance their peculiarities, satisfying the crossover nature of the interests beyond the understanding of landscape and the practices of its project.  

Sapienza University and the Faculty of Architecture focus on those themes linked to the analysis and planning of landscape on different scales, to history and conservation of landscape heritage, to design and representation, to environmental and ecological project; Sapienza will also be involved with themes related to botanical, geographical and aesthetic knowledge. University of Tuscia, instead, will contribute with the body of knowledge related to Agronomic and Forest Sciences.

The Study Course is strongly oriented towards internationalization, through student exchange programmes, lecturers’ exchanges, and shared workshops.