The candidate should demonstrate the ability to teach the following Student Learning Objectives: (1) Knowledge: gain general knowledge of design and cultural form and their historical context from ancient times to the present day; understand how the cultural form of an historical period applies to current design and cultural form; analyze how current and future issues in landscape design are influenced by the past as well as their socio-cultural and bio-physical context; appreciate how culture and environment interact as the genesis of cultural form. (2) Skills: develop research skills needed for the preparation of graduate level university papers and reports, including the use of the University of Guelph Library, with a particular understanding of how these skills relate to report writing in landscape architectural practice; practice writing skills in course assignments in preparation for professional report writing; develop design skills in the design, layout and presentation of final research reports and PowerPoint presentations; understand the value of precedents to inform your own design.(3) Values: Commit to high standards of academic and design performance; Commit to fair-use guidelines and principles of acknowledgement of intellectual property, and an understanding of how the design and academic worlds borrow, recognize 
and credit the basis for their ideas; Commit to professional conduct, attitude and deportment.