+ Architectural/Environmental Design Studies

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The architectural/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 major is to enhance the student's problem-solving ability and produce critical thinkers.

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 major is three cooperative education experiences in an architecture or design-related position that is supervised by the faculty.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the baccalaureate degree, students in the architectural/environmental
design studies major 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.
  

Required classes (125 total hours)

• BG Perspective
  • Natural Sciences (6)
  • Humanities and Arts (6)
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences (6)
  • Cultural Diversity in the U.S. (3)
  • Core elective (BG Perspective) (3)
  • English 112 (3)
• ARCH 105 (3)
• ARCH 205 (3)
• ARCH 231 (3) (applicable to BG Perspective humanities and arts requirement)
• ARCH 236 (3)
• ARCH 222 (Design Studio 1) (3)
• ARCH 271 (3)
• ARCH 321 (Design Studio 2) (6)
• ARCH 322 (Design Studio 3) (6)
• ARCH 331 (3)
• ARCH 336 (3)
• ARCH 337 (3)
• ARCH 421 (Design Studio 4) (6)
• ARCH 422 (Design Studio 5) (6)
• ARTH 440 (3)
• CONS 235 (3)
• CONS 336 (3)
• DESN 131 (3)
• DESN 243 (3)
• ENG 388 (3)
• ECON 200 (3) (applicable to BG Perspective social and behavioral sciences requirement)
• MATH 126 or 131 (5) or 134 and 135 (6)
• PHYS 201 (5) (applicable to BG Perspective natural sciences requirement)
• PHYS 202 (5) or GEOL 104 (4) (applicable to BG Perspective natural sciences requirement)
• TECH 302 (3) (applicable to BG Perspective social and behavioral sciences and international perspective requirements)
• TECH 289 (4), TECH 389 (4), TECH 489 (4) (cooperative education work experience)
• VCT 103 (3)
• Business electives (3)
  Select from:
  • ACCT 200
  • LEGS 301
  • MGMT 305
  • MKT 300
• Technical Electives (6) (must be 300-level or higher)