The 12-hour Land Arts of the American West Graduate Certificate in the Huckabee College of Architecture centers on the transdisciplinary Land Arts field program that investigates the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of the planet. The program leverages immersive field experience in the desert southwest as a primary pedagogic agent to support research that opens horizons of perception, probes depths of inquiry, and advances understanding of human actions shaping environments. Land Arts attracts architects, artists, and writers from across the university and beyond to a “semester abroad in our own backyard” that travels 6,000 miles overland while camping for two months to experience major land art monuments—Double Negative, Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, The Lightning Field—while also visiting sites to expand understanding of what land art might be, such as pre-contact archeology, military and industrial facilities, and contemporary infrastructure. Throughout the travels and on campus, participants make work in response to their experience, which is exhibited at the Museum of Texas Tech University to conclude the field season.
Student participants have come from North America, Australia, Chile, Spain, Belgium, and Sweden to study at Texas Tech during or after their work at the universities of Pennsylvania, Texas at Austin, Iowa, South Florida, California at Berkeley and Riverside, Carnegie Mellon, New York University, Goldsmith’s in London, Cranbrook, Rhode Island School of Design, Whitman College, Bard College, and Yale.
To help negotiate the multivalent meaning of the places visited, and to shed light on strategies to aid their comprehension, the Land Arts program invites the wisdom of field guests—writers, artists, and interpreters—to join specific portions of our journey. Past field guests have included Center for Land Use Interpretation director Matthew Coolidge; Utah Museum of Fine Arts director Gretchen Dietrich; Remote Studio director Lori Ryker; Adobe Alliance founder Simone Swan; artists Deborah Stratman, Post commodity, Joan Jonas, and Zoe Leonard; art Historians Ann Reynolds, Kevin Chua, and Monty Paret; architects Urs Peter Flueckiger, David Gregor, Jack Sanders, and Nichole Wiedemann; and writers Charles Bowden, Lucy Lippard, and Barry Lopez.
The specialty courses in this certificate emphasize the merits, rigors, and risks of field work; the in-depth value of seminar-based dialog; the public exhibition of research produced products; and the synthesis, documentation, and reflection of the experience in written and visual forms.
Students will apply to the TTU Graduate School.
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Esperado Janeiro 2025
College of Architecture
Texas Tech University,
1800 Flint Avenue,
LUBBOCK,
Texas,
79409, United States
The applicant must have earned a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in the United States or its equivalent from a foreign institution.
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - The minimum TOEFL score required is 79.
International English Language Testing Service (IELTS) - The minimum IELTS required score is an overall band score of 6.5 on the Academic version.
Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) - The minimum required PTE Academic score is 60.
Cambridge C2 Proficiency Test (Cambridge CPE) - The minimum required Cambridge CPE grade is a score of 180 or above.
Cambridge C1 Advanced Proficiency Test (Cambridge CAE) - The minimum required Cambridge CAE grade is a score of 175 or above.
Recommended deadlines for international students are as follows:
January 15 for Fall and Summer semesters
July 15 for Spring semesters
Os requisitos para o IELTS podem variar de acordo com o curso que você escolher.
A TTU é uma instituição Tier One na Carnegie, com uma experiência acadêmica rigorosa, oportunidades inigualáveis de pesquisa e comunidade acolhedora.