+ Architecture/Environmental Design Studies

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The architecture/environmental design studies major is a pre-professional degree program that prepares students for continued education in a professional degree program in architecture or a related field, or for employment opportunities in architecturally related occupations. The focus of the program is to enhance the student's problem-solving ability and produce critical thinkers, not technicians.

Most states require that an individual intending to become an architect hold an accredited degree. There are two types of degrees that are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB): the bachelor of architecture (B.Arch.), which requires a minimum of five years of study, and master of architecture (M.Arch.), which requires a minimum of three years of study following an unrelated bachelor's degree or two years following a related preprofessional degree. These professional degrees are structured to educate those who aspire to registration/licensure as architects.

An important component of this program is a cooperative education experience in a design or design-related position in industry which is supervised by College of Technology faculty or staff.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the baccalaureate degree, students in architecture/environmental
design studies are expected to:

• Analyze architectural and urban design problems and synthesize solutions at different levels of complexity, scope, and building types;
• Employ the oral, written and graphic modes of communication for expressing research work and design efforts at different stages of the design process;
• Apply the concepts of architectural history and theory in shaping buildings, cities and other spatial environments—encompassing international traditions as related to aesthetics, environment, society and human behavior;
• Understand the basic principles that inform the design of the structural, material and mechanical/electrical systems and to assess, select and integrate such systems into a comprehensive building design.
  

First year (31 hours)

• ARCH 105 (3)
• ARCH 231 (3) (meets humanities and arts requirement)
• CONS 235 (3)
• DESN 131 (3)
• ENG 112 (3)
• GEOL 104 (4) (meets natural science requirement)
• MATH 126 (5)
• VCT 203 (3)
• TECH 289 (4)
  

Second year (33 hours)

• General education core (6)
• ARCH 205, 236, 271 (9)
• ARCH 222 (Design Studio 1) (3)
• DESN 243 (3)
• ECON 200 (3) (meets social science requirement)
• PHYS 201 (5) (meets natural science requirement)
• TECH 389 (4)
  

Third year (34 hours)

• ARCH 321 (Design Studio 2) (6)
• ARCH 322 (Design Studio 3) (6)
• ARCH 331, 336, 337 (9)
• ARTH 440 (3)
• CONS 336 (3)
• ENG 388 (3)
• TECH 489 (4)
  

Fourth year (27 hours)

• Business degree electives (3)
• General education core (3)
• ARCH 421 (Design Studio 4) (6)
• ARCH 422 (Design Studio 5) (6)
• TECH 302 (3) (meets social science and international perspective requirements)
• Technical degree electives (6)