Assessing Landscape Construction Course in Landscape Architecture Program (UNPUBLISHED)

<p>A landscape construction course that incorporates a variety of student centered teaching methods including case studies, small group projects and tutorials were created to help students further their problem solving, decision making and critical thinking skills. By incorporating principles from Bloom's Taxonomy in the course, students will move from lower to higher order thinking skills and gain knowledge and understanding within a given tutorials across the topics taught during the semester. Thus, the aim of this paper is to illustrate how Landscape Architectural educators could teach landscape construction course and assess the students learning outcome in sustainable development of the built environment. First, the paper will present the important role of landscape profession in sustainable construction solutions in built environment industry. Then this paper will state the profile of Landscape Construction course, its concept and how the assessment is being done in the education of landscape architecture professionals in the Faculty of Built Environment, Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University College (KLMUC), as a case-study. The findings showed that Landscape Construction teaching is different from other course, i.e. an appreciation and understand towards art, science and engineering.