Undergraduate Programs

In the undergraduate program, emphasis is placed on student competence in design inquiry/research, architectural history, human behavior and environment, technical systems, computer usage, professional practice and complemented by elective courses in general/liberal education-- natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. Awareness of these areas provides the student with fundamental communication skills through critical thinking, conflict resolution, visual literacy and the knowledge of forces that shape magnificence societal and human affairs, as well as the impact of new technologies in an ever-changing world.

Students seeking the Bachelor of Architecture degree must complete a minimum of 171 credits. The general and detailed curriculum is shown below with credits on the right. Follow the linked course titles for a description of the course. Lists of all Architecture and Design course descriptions are also available.

	English	6
	Mathematics	7
	Liberal Studies (Electives)	14
	Architectural Design	50
	Architectural History and Theory	27
	Architectural Technology	27
	Professional Electives	20
	General Electives	20
	Total	171

Bachelor of Architecture - Five Year Professional Degree Program Freshmen 1st Year
	Fall Semester		Spring Semester
	Math-006 College Algebra I	3	Math-007 Pre-Calculus	4
	Engl-002 English I	3	Engl-003 English II	3
	Arch-003 Environment/Arch	3	Arch-011 Elements of Arch	3
	Arch-150 Design Comm. I	3	Arch-151 Des. Comm. II	3
	General Elective (core)	3	General Elective (core)	3
	PHED	1	PHED	1
	Total	16	Total	17

Sophomore 2nd Year
	Fall Semester		Spring Semester
	Arch-199 Design I	6	Arch-200 Design II	6
	Phy-008 Physics for Architects	5	Arch-302 Architectural Hist Surv. II	3
	Arch-301 Architectural Hist Surv. I	3	Arch-402 Materials & Methods II	3
	Arch-401 Materials & Methods I	3	Arch-511 Computer Appli. in Architecture	3
			Liberal Studies (core)	3
	Total	16	Total	18

Sophomore 3rd Year (Lower Junior)
	Fall Semester		Spring Semester
	Arch-201 Design III	6	Arch-202 Design IV	6
	Arch-521 Environmental Systmes I	3	Arch-651 Principle of Urban Design	3
	Arch-501 Structures I	3	Arch-522 Environmental Systems II	3
	Arch-901 Programming	3	Arch-502 Structures II	3
	Professional Elective (Arch History)	3	Professional Elective(Arch History)	3
	Total	18	Total	18

Junior 4th Year (Upper Junior)
	Fall Semester		Spring Semester
	Arch-203 Design V	6	Arch-204 Design VI	6
	Arch-951 Construction Documents	3	Arch-701 Public Issues & Arch.	3
	Professional Elective (Arch History)	3	Professional Elective (Environment)	3
	Professional Elective (Structures)	3	Professional Elective	2
	Liberal Studies Elective	2	Liberal Studies Elective	3
	Total	17	Total	17

Senior 5th Year
	Fall Semester		Spring Semester
	Arch-205 Design VII	6	Arch-206 Design VIII (Thesis	6
	Arch-891 Thesis Prep	3	Professional Elective (Prof. Pract.)	3
	Arch-751 Professional Practice	3	Professional Elective	3
	Professional Elective (Tech)	3	Liberal Studies Elective	3
	Professional Elective	3
	Total	18	Total	15

ARCH-003:
Environment and Architecture (formerly Man and His Environment) 3crs. An introduction to the built environment and the natural and cultural factors that shape it.

ARCH-011:
Elements of Architecture. 3 crs.Exa mines the elements of architecture as grouped into two major categories: (1) elements which originate from the needs of man and which are resolved in design, and (2) those elements which originate in nature and which are resolved in construction and technology.
- Prereqs.: ARCH-001, ARCH-150

ARCH-015:
Language of Criticism of Art and Architecture. 3 crs. Introduces the student to the modes of criticism in art and architecture and focuses on the role language and text play in our understanding of the entities and representations in art and architecture. Also provides an understanding of the new relationships between text-commentary, language-criticism and the evolving discursive methods which linguistics has released into modern criticism.
- Prereq.: ARCH-304

ARCH-150:
Design Communication I (formerly Graphic Communication I). 3 crs. A studio course that introduces students to architectural representation. Orthographic projections, descriptive geometry, contours, paraline drawings, shade and shadows and model making are presented and applied.

ARCH-151:
Design Communication II (formerly Design Communication II). 3 crs. This course develops the techniques introduced in Graphics I and introduces freehand/estimated perspective, presentation composition and basic rendering techniques.
- Prereq.: ARCH-150

ARCH-199:
Design I. 4 crs. This first course of the eight-semester design sequence develops principles of architecture in a studio setting.. Projects explore notions of space definition, landscape intensification and transformation, space organization and elementary construction technologies.
- Prereqs.: ARCH-003; ARCH-011; ARCH-151

ARCH-200:
Design II. 4 crs. Continuation of Design I. The level of complexity of the projects is increased. Issues of intention and image are introduced. Natural, suburban and urban sites are used to broaden student awareness of the environment. Ordering principles are related to function and to site conditions.
- Prereq.: ARCH-199

ARCH-201:
Design III. 6 crs. Reinforces the concepts introduced in Design I and II and explores the impact of function, structure, construction, site conditions and climate on architectural form. Prereq.: ARCH-200. Before proceeding to Design III, each student must have satisfactorily completed all courses in the first two years of the curriculum, and must have a GPA of 2.25 in all architectural courses.

ARCH-202:
Design IV. 6 crs. Continuation of Design III.
- Prereq.: ARCH-201

ARCH-203:
Design V. 6 crs. Reinforces work of earlier design studios and explores issues of more complex building types and urban design.
- Prereqs.: ARCH-202; ARCH-522; ARCH-502; ARCH-651; ARCH-303

ARCH-204:
Design VI. 6 crs. Continuation of Design V.
- Prereqs.: ARCH-203; ARCH-503; ARCH-951; ARCH-304

ARCH-205:
Design VII. 6 crs. Builds on work of previous design studios and emphasizes exploration and development of architectural expression through integration of various aspects of architectural design within cultural and site contexts.
- Prereqs.: ARCH-204; ARCH-392; ARCH-015; ARCH-701

ARCH-206:
Design VIII Terminal Project (Thesis). 6 crs. The final design studio and the culminating effort of the five-year curriculum. The student is expected to demonstrate competence and skill in the execution of an architectural design project. The specific topic is selected by the student, with faculty approval, and developed programmatically in Thesis Preparation Seminar.
- Prereqs.: ARCH-205; ARCH-891; ARCH-961

ARCH-219:
Contemporary Issues in Architecture. 3 crs. Seminar course which focuses on the work and writing of contemporary “cutting-edge” architects. Elective.
-Prereqs.: CHEG-301, -302, -303, -304  

ARCH-301:
Architectural History Survey I. 3 crs. The course will provide a survey of the unfolding nature of historical events, epochs and periods together with the respective styles of architecture. Various building types will be related to prevailing structure(s) of consciousness and the operating system(s) of values, perceptions, beliefs, attitudes for their cultural, historical and ethical significance. The history of architecture has, as its subject and object, the changes in values, attitudes, apprehensions of order, etc. in the design of buildings and structures. It also monitors the shifts in priorities in the relationship(s) of elements and components to general systems or styles of architecture. A survey of the beginnings and the development of the architecture of the archaic world, antiquity, late-antiquity and post-late antiquity periods in Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Europe and Pre-Columbian America. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the diversity, monumentality and excellence achieved in the architecture prior to the Eighteenth Century.
- Prereqs: ARCH-003, ARCH-011

ARCH-302:
Architectural History Survey II. 3 crs. Modern Architecture begins in the intellectual , ethical and moral traditions of Modernity and the Enlightenment in Europe. The unfolding forces of reason, individual thinking and the emerging pluralism which characterize the early movements in Architecture, are grounded in the firm beliefs in progressive subjectivity and human interest in the ethics of cognition. This is, essentially, an architectural history survey course. As such, it is designed to introduce the systematic factors which shape and explain Architecture from the Post Renaissance Period to the Contemporary Period. The course will, accordingly, present a working range and diversity of the shifting, contextual frameworks bridging analogical and analytical modes of production.
- Prereqs: ARCH-301

ARCH-305:
Principles of Historic Preservation and Documentation. 3 crs. An introduction to the principles of documentation, preservation, restoration and rehabilitation of historic architecture. The process and methods of documentation, research, analysis and graphic presentation utilizing a seminar/demonstration/case study approach is supplemented by seminars/lectures from specialists in the field.