2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Undergraduate Courses
000 to 499 subdivided as follows:
000 to 099 designate courses which normally are not counted towards a student’s baccalaureate.
100 to 299 designate Lower Division courses. This category is further subdivided as follows:
100 to 199 designate undergraduate Lower Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at a freshman or sophomore level. Such courses generally do not require any prerequisite course work for fully matriculated students.
200 to 299 designate undergraduate Lower Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at sophomore level. Courses in this category require specific or general prerequisites which are usually completed at the freshman level.
300 to 499 designate Upper Division courses. This category of courses is further subdivided as follows:
300 to 399 designate undergraduate Upper Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at a junior or senior level. These courses presume specific or general prerequisite course work at the Lower Division level.
400 to 499 designate undergraduate Upper Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at the senior level. Courses in this category have prerequisites which students have usually completed at the junior level.
Graduate Courses
500 to 899 subdivided as follows:
500 to 599 designate courses offered at the graduate level which prepare students for a graduate degree program or designate professional teacher-training courses.
600 to 699 designate courses at the master’s and credential level.
700 to 799 designate courses at the doctoral level.
800 to 899 designate courses at the School of Law.
5000 to 6999 designate courses at the MBA level.
7000 to 7999 designate courses at the doctoral Nursing level.
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ARCH 325 - Intro to Landscape Architect
Unit(s): 2
The course provides an introduction to Landscape Architecture typologies. Landscape architecture, specifically the design of gathering spaces, engages users in different ways. We will explore the spatial relationships observed per the designers’ intention and the users’ experience. Through site visits, recorded drawings, written observations, and case study investigations, students will investigate public and private inhabitation patterns found in local landscapes.
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ARCH 340 - International Projects
Unit(s): 2 to 4
International Projects provides students an opportunity to provide design assistance to international underserved communities, while gaining real world experience in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. The course combines student development of an understanding and appreciation for contextual and cultural needs with the acquisition of professional practice skills.
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ARCH 345 - Intl Dev & Comm Outreach
Unit(s): 4
The International Development and Community Outreach Service Learning course provides students with an overview of historical, political, and economic dynamics that impact global systems, inequalities, and developing countries. Students will work in teams on specific projects being implemented in specific communities by a partner NGO. Through readings, discussions and presentations, students will gain understanding of the systems and factors creating poverty and inequality in the world. Reflection activities range from individual to group exercises enabling students to better understand their relationship to the beneficiaries. The service component requires students to transfer their skills from their area of study and lead team projects identified by the partnering NGO in an iterative process.
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ARCH 350 - Architecture Studio V
Unit(s): 4
This studio will deal with the identity of public buildings and their intersection with the social, cultural and political realities, directions and aspirations of their communities. Through an analysis of context and program, and a critical appreciation of building precedents, students will provide architectural solutions that explore the design of collective space, institutional form, building structure and materiality. Throughout the studio, the emphasis will be on understanding and devising design processes that enable an analytical and rigorous approach to architectural design.
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ARCH 370 - Construction Innovation Lab
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Construction Innovation Lab pairs student teams with real world design/build projects in local and international underserved communities, where innovation in technology and building systems is required to best serve the needs of the partnering community. The course combines student acquisition of cultural competency with professional practice.
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ARCH 390 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 0 to 4
One-time offerings of special interest courses in architecture and community design.
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ARCH 398 - Directed Study/Research
Unit(s): 1 to 4
A course in the area of the proposed topic for directed study. Written permission of the instructor required.
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ARCH 400 - Community Design Outreach
Unit(s): 4
Student involvement in real architecture design/build projects for non-profits, schools, and municipalities in the Bay Area and internationally. In this studio class students take on a larger urban or rural design problem. Through extensive fieldwork, students obtain the requisite understanding of the role of community design in underserved communities and the larger urban forces involved. The projects may be local, national, or international and are intended to lead to student participation and leadership in a community building process.
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ARCH 401 - Intro Arch Theory & Writn Word
Unit(s): 4
We regularly engage with the physicality of architecture, that is, the buildings and places that enable, envelop, and mark our daily lives. Yet architecture also exists in the written word, captured in texts that theorize from diverse perspectives the process and significance of architectural conception and realization. Through extensive readings and student-led discussions, this course will carefully examine theories and perspectives as depicted in representative texts from antiquity to the present.
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ARCH 410 - Portfolio Lab
Unit(s): 2
The discipline of architecture is as centered on its discourse-writing and verbalizing-as it is on building production. Through this course, students will investigate the various approaches to writing about their work and establish a distinct focus of future professional inquiry. The class will examine how other architects have presented their work through publication and look at how the architectural press covers the work of architects. Students will then delve into their own projects to create a snapshot of their work projected in the form of a portfolio.
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ARCH 420 - Pract/Internship: Constr Mgmt
Unit(s): 2
Student internships with architecture firms, non-profit low-income housing developers, municipal planning or building departments, and social and environmental justice oriented organizations. Through the practicum and internship process, students will obtain the experience of working with a range of populations with varying needs, the meaning of professionalism, and the place of community design in the larger context of urban design.
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ARCH 430 - Prof. Practice/Internship
Unit(s): 4
A career in architecture is a series of choices about the complex relationship amongst architecture, society, and the environment. Students will reflect on these choices in the context of professional practice, as well as their own interests, skills, and opportunities.
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ARCH 498 - Thesis Preparation Seminar
Unit(s): 2
The first part of a two-semester sequence of coursework during the senior year for exceptional Architecture students that provides students with experience developing, analyzing and communicating the results of theoretical, design or experimental research and results in an in-depth thesis project. This Fall 2-unit course guides students through the process of formulating a research topic and question, identifying a suitable research methodology, preparing a literature review, conducting preliminary fieldwork and research, and writing a complete thesis proposal. Honors thesis topics are likely to be in one of three categories: 1) experimental research to determine behavior of an innovative building material or technique, 2) an architectural/landscape/urban proposal to address a specific socio-economic, environmental or cultural problem, or 3) an investigation into a theoretical, aesthetic or professional practice issue. Thesis projects address issues of social justice, environmental stewardship and/or professional practice with specific proposals to resolve or mitigate the identified issues as a key component of the final thesis project.
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ARCH 499 - Honors Thesis Seminar
Unit(s): 4
The second part of a two-semester sequence of coursework during the senior year for exceptional Architecture students that provides students with experience developing, analyzing and communicating the results of theoretical, design or experimental research and results in an in-depth thesis project. In this Spring 4-unit course students actively implement their thesis proposal with research, fieldwork and the preparation of a final thesis to be formally submitted and presented to the USF community. Honors thesis topics are likely to be in one of three categories: 1) experimental research to determine behavior of an innovative building material or technique, 2) an architectural/landscape/urban proposal to address a specific socio-economic, environmental or cultural problem, or 3) an investigation into a theoretical, aesthetic or professional practice issue. Thesis projects address issues of social justice, environmental stewardship and/or professional practice with specific proposals to resolve or mitigate the identified issues as a key component of the final thesis project.
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ARCD 100 - Intro to Arch & Comm Design
Unit(s): 2
Architecture and community design encompasses diverse forms of engagement with society and the environment. Each of these raises important questions about the principles, purpose, and practice of architecture. Through lectures, readings, and walking tours, we will explore these questions and establish a solid foundation for continuing academic study in the ARCD program.
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman and Sophomore; Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 101 - History of Architecture I
Unit(s): 2
This is the first semester of a two-year sequence, which provides conceptual and analytical tools to understand the morphology of buildings and cities. Social justice, underserved communities and developing regions of the world are equally emphasized alongside the more traditional view of focusing on the ‘great buildings’ in history.
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ARCD 102 - History of Architecture II
Unit(s): 2
This is the second semester of a two-year sequence, which provides the conceptual and analytical tools to interpret the morphology of the built environment from the macro scale of cities to the micro scale of buildings. The social role and cultural significance of architecture is explored alongside the formal and technological aspects of the discipline.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management Minor
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ARCD 104 - Fabrication Lab
Unit(s): 0
Art + Architecture Fabrication Lab, a required course for students majoring in Architecture, Fine Arts and Design, offers students supervised professional construction and safety training using the Fabrication tools and equipment. Students complete a variety of practical construction-based projects to develop and practice proper material and tool use. The conceptual, theoretical and practical instruction received in this course will prepare students for studio based course work and provide future access to the tools and labs in the Department of Art + Architecture.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 105 - Art & ARCD Fabrication Lab
Unit(s): 0 to 1
Art Architecture Fabrication Lab, a required course for students majoring in Architecture, Fine Arts and Design, offers students supervised professional construction and safety training using the Fabrication tools and equipment. Students complete a variety of practical construction-based projects to develop and practice proper material and tool use. The conceptual, theoretical and practical instruction received in this course will prepare students for studio based course work and provide future access to the tools and labs in the Department of Art Architecture.
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ARCD 110 - Architecture Studio I
Unit(s): 4
Students are introduced to all the major drawing conventions, learning to coordinate a range of drawing types and techniques from free-hand sketching to drafting by hand and with computer. The course begins with contour drawing (line weight, overlap, scale), then tone drawing (shade and shadow), then orthographic projection and perspective. It is a learning to observe and represent what you see kind of course and is preparatory for the more advanced design studios. Students are expected to keep a sketchbook, which they may use in conjunction with other courses, as a place to examine various forms of representation as part of their design process.
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman and Sophomore; Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 120 - Architecture Studio II
Unit(s): 4
Students will engage in an active interrogation of the city, understanding its structure and patterns and simultaneously uncovering the social imperatives of its residents. They will learn how to use the tools and conventions of representation and apply them creatively and rigorously in the examination of the city at different scales and in varying contexts. Through small-scale design projects, students will evolve designs based on research and exploration and a critical reading of the built environment that takes into account aspects of ecology and landscape.
Prerequisite: ARCD 110
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman and Sophomore; Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Minor
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ARCD 150 - Architectonics I
Unit(s): 2
The intention of this course is to develop an understanding of architectonics. Lectures and studio projects explore the concepts of dimension, scale, and order. Design investigations are assigned to develop methods for analysis, articulation of space, relationships of scale, and clarity of structure.
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman and Sophomore; Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 151 - Architectonics II
Unit(s): 2
Architectonics will focus on improving both representational and conceptual skills, viewing their mastery as interdependent. Three core semester projects will provide a framework for investigating how to conceptualize, construct, and represent complex architectural space. Our projects will not necessarily begin with a priori concepts, but with a theme, collective and personal, that is to be investigated through construction and representation.
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman and Sophomore; Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar
Unit(s): 4
First Year Seminars are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All FYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many FYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. FYSeminars are only open to students in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one FYS, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other FYSeminars this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman
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ARCD 203 - History of Architecture III
Unit(s): 2
This is the third semester of a two-year sequence, which examines architectural production, drawing from significant precedents from antiquity to the present. Social, political, economic and cultural issues of cities and buildings are equally emphasized, as are formal and technological processes.
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ARCD 204 - History of Architecture IV
Unit(s): 2
This is the fourth semester of a two-year sequence that studies building typologies and urban patterns using the example of the world’s cities and their histories. Cities and buildings resulting from the dominance of wealth and power are important, but so too are settlement patterns, streets, buildings, homes and gardens of all peoples through history.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History/Arts Management Minor
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ARCD 220 - Landscape Arch Studio
Unit(s): 2
The landscape architecture studio provides students with the opportunity to explore landscape ideas through an iterative design process: site analysis and observation, informal interviews of users, critical thinking, and a final synthesis of information. Through class discussions, walking tours, sketchbook investigations, site observation and informal interviews, students will develop a landscape design proposal and verbally and graphically communicate their ideas for specific campus sites.
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ARCD 230 - Architecture Studio III
Unit(s): 4
This studio introduces students to design issues at different scales of urban complexity. In part one of the studio, students explore the ‘grain’ of the city–the individual dwelling unit–its history, place and relationship to the larger urban fabric. In part 2, they continue to examine aspects of living in the city through design projects that deal with multi-family housing and issues of affordability and social justice.
Prerequisite: ARCD 240
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ARCD 240 - Materials and Methods of Arch.
Unit(s): 4
Through a consideration of land use, housing, natural resources, environmental factors, aesthetics and comfort, students will develop a critique of the architecture on the urban fringe. Students will be introduced to alternative methods of design and building in contrast to accepting normative practices as a given. They will be introduced to vernacular, contemporary and renewable construction methods and how they relate to building type, location, life-cycle and design issues. Students will develop individual projects, which follow the design process from schematic presentation through design development and basic construction documents.
Prerequisite: ARCD 120
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ARCD 250 - CADD 1
Unit(s): 4
CADD 1 is an introductory course in Computer Aided Design and Drawing in VectorWorks, a CADD program for both the Mac and PC platforms that integrates 2D, 3D, and hybrid objects in the same drawing. The class will cover both line drawing and 3D modeling techniques.
Prerequisite: concurrent ARCD 120
Restriction: Class restricted to Sophomore, Junior and Senior; Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Environmental Studies Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Environmental Studies, Architectural Engineering Minor
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ARCD 270 - BIM & Applications
Unit(s): 2
The BIM and Applications course uses Revit to reveal how Building Information Modeling and Integrated Project Delivery work in tandem to produce a highly collaborative design process. As students gain an understanding of how design problems are solved using this approach, they also acquire a powerful visualization and design development tool which can be used in other studios and portfolio refinement.
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ARCD 290 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 1 to 4
One-time offerings of special interest courses in architecture and community design.
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ARCD 300 - CADD 2: GIS for Architecture
Unit(s): 2
This course will develop an understanding of digital tools and strategies, which engage and expand the design process, with the primary goal of utilizing the computer as a fluid, critical investigative tool. We will examine the impact of digital strategies, methodologies and practices on the work of contemporary architects, with individual research into modes of representation and its impact on tectonic development.
Prerequisite: ARCD 250
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Environmental Studies Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Environmental Studies, Architectural Engineering Minor
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ARCD 310 - Intro to Construction Materials
Unit(s): 4
An understanding of the basic properties of major construction materials is fundamental to becoming an effective architect or engineer. This course will introduce students to the properties, applications and design considerations of common construction materials. The course will be a lecture format supplemented by readings, field trips, laboratory experiments, exams and individual research projects. While designed primarily for students of Architecture, the course is also a rigorous introduction to civil engineering materials.
Prerequisite: PHYS 100 or PHYS 110 or PHYS 130 and MATH 107 or MATH 108 or MATH 109
Restriction: Class restricted to Sophomore, Junior and Senior; Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Architectural Engineering Minor
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ARCD 312 - Environ Control Systems
Unit(s): 2 to 4
This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues as they relate to the built environment and the materials used to construct buildings. An overview of the basic principles of energy flow and energy use will be provided, as well as the fundamental climatic patterns and variables that have significant impact on building performance and occupant comfort. Passive building designs will be covered for each of the major global climate zones and students will be exposed to the underlying complexity of developing architectural solutions that address a wide range of local and global environmental concerns. Students will study the cultural and technological factors that have driven advances in efficiency and reduced environmental impact. The applicability of passive architecture, especially vernacular forms, as a means of furthering social justice and energy independence of occupants, will be emphasized in the course.
Prerequisite: PHYS 110 or PHYS 130 and (MATH 107 or MATH 109)
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ARCD 312L - Environ Control Sys Lab
Unit(s): 0
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture & Community Dsgn Major, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Architectural Engineering Minor
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ARCD 320 - Sustainable Design
Unit(s): 4
This course will provide an interdisciplinary overview of Sustainable Design by presenting a historical and contemporary overview of ecological living practices through lecture, readings, guest speakers, and field trips. Topics include: Bioregion assessments, Sustainable communities, Environmental and Social justice, Permaculture, Native Science, Biomimicry, Urban Gardens and Food Security, Ecoliteracy and Primary Education, Global Economies, Environmental Preservation and Restoration vs. Development, The Global Environment, Impact of Developed Countries consumptive patterns, City Planning, and Green Business and Manufacturing.
Restriction: Class restricted to Sophomore, Junior and Senior
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ARCD 322 - Sustainable & Equitable Arch
Unit(s): 4
The Sustainable & Equitable Design course will provide an interdisciplinary introduction to sustainable design concepts and strategies. These concepts and strategies will then be analyzed based on their sensitivity to concerns of social, economic and environmental equity. The course will also provide an overview of various sustainable design standards such as: LEED, SEED, Living Building Challenge, Net Zero Energy and Passive House. Sustainable & Equitable Design will be framed as a way of thinking, operating and designing in a world facing rising pressures from blooming populations, urbanization, resource depletion, climate change, environmental degradation and socio-economic inequality.
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ARCD 325 - Intro to Landscape Architect
Unit(s): 2
The course provides an introduction to Landscape Architecture typologies. Landscape architecture, specifically the design of gathering spaces, engages users in different ways. We will explore the spatial relationships observed per the designers’ intention and the users’ experience. Through site visits, recorded drawings, written observations, and case study investigations, students will investigate public and private inhabitation patterns found in local landscapes.
Restriction: Class restrictions exclude Freshman
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ARCD 340 - International Projects
Unit(s): 2 to 4
International Projects provides students an opportunity to provide design assistance to international underserved communities, while gaining real world experience in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. The course combines student development of an understanding and appreciation for contextual and cultural needs with the acquisition of professional practice skills.
Restriction: Class restricted to Sophomore, Junior and Senior; Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 345 - Intl Dev & Comm Outreach
Unit(s): 4
The International Development and Community Outreach Service Learning course provides students with an overview of historical, political, and economic dynamics that impact global systems, inequalities, and developing countries. Students will work in teams on specific projects being implemented in specific communities by a partner NGO. Through readings, discussions and presentations, students will gain understanding of the systems and factors creating poverty and inequality in the world. Reflection activities range from individual to group exercises enabling students to better understand their relationship to the beneficiaries. The service component requires students to transfer their skills from their area of study and lead team projects identified by the partnering NGO in an iterative process.
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ARCD 350 - Architecture Studio V
Unit(s): 4
This studio will deal with the identity of public buildings and their intersection with the social, cultural and political realities, directions and aspirations of their communities. Through an analysis of context and program, and a critical appreciation of building precedents, students will provide architectural solutions that explore the design of collective space, institutional form, building structure and materiality. Throughout the studio, the emphasis will be on understanding and devising design processes that enable an analytical and rigorous approach to architectural design.
Prerequisite: ARCD 230 and ARCD 240
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ARCD 360 - Intro to Structural Engineering
Unit(s): 4
Structural engineering is an essential component of building design. The goal of this course is to familiarize architecture students with structural engineering principles, so that they can incorporate them into their design processes. This will enable them to see structural engineering as an integral part of the process, rather than something separate that occurs after the ‘design work’ is done. From their unique perspective as architecture students, students will find ways to question and challenge structural engineering principles that an engineering student may not. Students will become familiar with the many concepts and considerations needed in order to be a better designer, architect, planner, engineer, or related professional.
Prerequisite: PHYS 130 or PHYS 110 and MATH 107 or MATH 108
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Architectural Engineering Minor
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ARCD 370 - Construction Innovation Lab
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Construction Innovation Lab pairs student teams with real world design/build projects in local and international underserved communities, where innovation in technology and building systems is required to best serve the needs of the partnering community. The course combines student acquisition of cultural competency with professional practice.
Restriction: Class restrictions exclude Freshman; Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Architectural Engineering Minor
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ARCD 372 - Engineering, Desgn and Testng
Unit(s): 2 to 4
This course is designed as a companion to Construction Innovation Lab (ARCD 370), providing students with the tools to technically analyze and perform materials research for their innovative design solutions. Student projects will focus on local and international underserved communities, where innovation in technology and building systems is required to best serve the needs of the partnering community. Students will be expected to utilize knowledge gained in introductory engineering courses to establish parameters and quantitatively summarize material and structural behaviors.
Prerequisite: ARCD 310 with a minimum grade of C and ARCD 360 with a minimum grade of C
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn, Architectural Engineering Minor
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ARCD 390 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 0 to 4
One-time offerings of special interest courses in architecture and community design.
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ARCD 398 - Directed Study/Research
Unit(s): 1 to 4
A course in the area of the proposed topic for directed study. Written permission of the instructor required.
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ARCD 400 - Community Design Outreach
Unit(s): 4
Student involvement in real architecture design/build projects for non-profits, schools, and municipalities in the Bay Area and internationally. In this studio class students take on a larger urban or rural design problem. Through extensive fieldwork, students obtain the requisite understanding of the role of community design in underserved communities and the larger urban forces involved. The projects may be local, national, or international and are intended to lead to student participation and leadership in a community building process.
Restriction: Class restricted to Senior; Field of Study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major, Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Minor
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ARCD 401 - Intro Arch Theory & Writn Word
Unit(s): 4
We regularly engage with the physicality of architecture, that is, the buildings and places that enable, envelop, and mark our daily lives. Yet architecture also exists in the written word, captured in texts that theorize from diverse perspectives the process and significance of architectural conception and realization. Through extensive readings and student-led discussions, this course will carefully examine theories and perspectives as depicted in representative texts from antiquity to the present.
Prerequisite: ARCD 101 and ARCD 102 and ARCD 203 and ARCD 204
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ARCD 410 - Portfolio Lab
Unit(s): 2
The discipline of architecture is as centered on its discourse-writing and verbalizing-as it is on building production. Through this course, students will investigate the various approaches to writing about their work and establish a distinct focus of future professional inquiry. The class will examine how other architects have presented their work through publication and look at how the architectural press covers the work of architects. Students will then delve into their own projects to create a snapshot of their work projected in the form of a portfolio.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior; Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 420 - Pract/Internship: Constr Mgmt
Unit(s): 2
Student internships with architecture firms, non-profit low-income housing developers, municipal planning or building departments, and social and environmental justice oriented organizations. Through the practicum and internship process, students will obtain the experience of working with a range of populations with varying needs, the meaning of professionalism, and the place of community design in the larger context of urban design.
Restriction: Class restricted to Senior; Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 430 - Prof. Practice/Internship
Unit(s): 4
A career in architecture is a series of choices about the complex relationship amongst architecture, society, and the environment. Students will reflect on these choices in the context of professional practice, as well as their own interests, skills, and opportunities.
Restriction: Class restricted to Senior; Field of study restricted to Architecture, Architecture & Community Dsgn Major
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ARCD 498 - Thesis Preparation Seminar
Unit(s): 2
This 2-unit course supports the ARCD Honors student to conceptualize and prepare an honors thesis proposal, including the specific aims, hypotheses, context and significance, design and methods, and analysis strategy. The importance of organizational skills, time management, collaboration, corrective criticism and editing will be emphasized. The Honors Thesis allows the student to pursue a topic of study over their final two semesters to produce thoughtful, thorough and innovative solutions which can make true contributions to their field.
The Honors thesis projects are likely to be in one of three categories: 1) experimental research to determine behavior of an innovative building material or technique, 2) architectural/landscape/urban design to address a unique socio‐economic, environmental or cultural design problem, or 3) a critical written document synthesizing and exploring a theoretical or aesthetic condition arising from an environmental design problem. All projects are expected to address issues of social and/or environmental justice.
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ARCD 499 - Honors Thesis Seminar
Unit(s): 2
In this 2-unit course the ARCD Honors student will carry out the study developed as the Final Thesis Proposal in the first semester Preparation course. All data and background studies will be organized, analyses and design/written products presented in a thesis document to be submitted, and a final presentation. The Honors Thesis allows the student to pursue a topic of study over their final two semesters to produce thoughtful, thorough and innovative solutions which can make true contributions to their field. The Honors thesis projects are likely to be in one of three categories: 1) experimental research to determine behavior of an innovative building material or technique, 2) architectural/landscape/urban design to address a unique socio‐economic, environmental or cultural design problem, or 3) a critical written document synthesizing and exploring a theoretical or aesthetic condition arising from an environmental design problem. All projects are expected to address issues of social and/or environmental justice.
Prerequisite: ARCD 498 with a minimum grade of B
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ARUP 300 - Latino Gangs in Oakland and SF
Unit(s): 4
Engages USF students in local, marginalized community issues.
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ARUP 301 - Women/Poverty/Cath Soc Tht
Unit(s): 4
This course highlights intersections between gender, poverty, and Catholic social thought. As an Arrupe Justice Immersion course, the class combines classroom instruction with local immersion, required service, and reflection.
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ARUP 302 - Injustice, Healing & the Blues
Unit(s): 4
To analyze the dynamics of the social, economic and political marginalization that gave birth to Blues and to examine how marginalized groups overcome injustice through cultural engagement.
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ARUP 303 - Zambia Today
Unit(s): 4
Explore the strength of a community working together (Ubuntu) to get beyond the AIDS impasse.
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ARUP 305 - Ignatian Ed Seminar in Peru
Unit(s): 4
The Ignatian Education Seminar is designed for students interested in studying the Jesuit commitment for social justice in Lima, Peru. This class explores the pressing social issues to the most marginalized, learns from the people working on the frontlines, and connects with local students leaders working for justice.
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ARUP 306 - Students Arts & Incrcertn
Unit(s): 4
The Arts and Incarceration is designed for students who are interested in merging social activism, performance and teaching. Students will learn how to use the arts (theater/movement/ music/writing) to address critical social and cultural issues by creating a dialogue between incarcerated people and their communities. Through discussion, hands on exercises, readings and video, students will gain skills in, and a context for, a creative pedagological activist process that is rooted in community-based arts.
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ARUP 307 - Alaska:Cltre,Envrmnt,Trsm
Unit(s): 4
This 17-day, 4-credit Arrupe Social Justice Immersion course in anthropology (ANTH 280) and environmental studies (ENVA 280) examines the relationship between culture and the environment in the unique island setting of Sitka, Alaska. You will not only learn about the area’s terrestrial and marine environments and how Tlingit and non-Native residents of Sitka use its natural resources, but also about local controversies surrounding the stewardship of the region’s natural resources - its fish and other marine life, timber, and scenic beauty. The latter includes considering the social and environmental impact of different forms of tourism.
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ARUP 308 - Engl Minga Ecuador Amazon
Unit(s): 3
This graduate course is designed to become immersed in Achuar way of living and to work with Achuar teachers to develop an Achuar-centric English language curriculum, helping them attain their goal of self-sufficiency.
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ARUP 309 - Minds in Motion - Peru
Unit(s): 4
The USF Dance Program works with children at Colegio Miguel Pro in Tacna, Peru, with a focus on teaching academic curriculum through movement. Working closely with classroom teachers, the USF team creates a series of movement classes for 1st to 6th grades, addressing the curriculum units that each class is studying. Class material ranges from multiplication to geometry, history to poetry, body systems to earth habitats. In addition, after-school rehearsals are held daily to prepare for an end of session performance. This performance provides a culminating experience and an opportunity to celebrate the creative contribution and personal growth of everyone involved. The Minds in Motion course in Tacna, Peru, emphasizes that movement and creativity can be powerful tools in deconstructing economic and cultural barriers, creating new levels of understanding amongst people of different backgrounds and cultures.
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ARUP 310 - Latina Activism in SF
Unit(s): 4
The course will study the roots and present day context of Latina immigration in San Francisco and the US. This will be accomplished by examining the history of immigration withing the framework of community activism, cultural citizenship and the plight of Spanish-speaking women immigrants in this city. We will workshop with artists and activists, as well as do service work with two organizations who support women immigrants. Our final goal will be to strategize a tool for social action based on the collaboration with and specific needs of this community.
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ARUP 311 - Border Issues Sem Tijuana
Unit(s): 4
This is a bi-national course that combines academic experiences with community based learning in the Jesuit tradition among Latino immigrants to the US. The course includes college students from Mexico and from US Jesuit universities. (In cooperation with Universidad Iberamericana Tijuana)
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ARUP 312 - Alliances w/Newcomer Youth-ESL
Unit(s): 4
The objective of this course is to align USF students with newcomer and immigrant youth enrolled in the San Francisco Unified School District. Partnering with the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (Tel-Hi), this course will introduce students to the history of youth mentorship and leadership initiatives for immigrant youth in San Francisco, as well as pedagogical approaches towards being an effective mentor. Students will develop relationships with youth as well as Tel-Hi professionals to enhance their understandings of social justice and community service.
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ARUP 314 - Bynd Borders: Israel-Palestine
Unit(s): 4
BBIP is designed for students interested in social justice activism and international conflict. Students will intern with a Jerusalem-based NGO working to support marginalized communities in Israel and Palestine, in addition to analyzing and reflecting upon root causes of societal forms of oppression. This course aims to de-exceptionalize this ostensibly exceptional conflict, empowering students to understand and embrace ways to transform the oppressive patterns present in Israel, Palestine, and beyond.
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ARUP 315 - Peru Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
Intensive, interdisciplinary study designed to develop the student’s cultural competence
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ARUP 316 - Colombia Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
Intensive, interdisciplinary study designed to develop the student’s cultural competence
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ARUP 318 - Appalachia Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
Intensive, interdisciplinary study designed to develop the student’s cultural competence
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ARUP 319 - Mexico Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
Intensive, interdisciplinary study designed to develop the student’s cultural competence
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ARUP 320 - Cuba Immersion: Health Care
Unit(s): 2
This 2 unit elective includes lessons in Spanish & Medical Spanish, visits to clinics and community health centers, and cultural events in Havana Cuba. Come learn about local health conditions as well as how Cuba has developed an impressive public health system making great advances despite economic hardships. Please contact professor to find out about the program cost.
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ARUP 324 - Cuba: Sustainable Agriculture
Unit(s): 4
This Arrupe Justice Immersion explores sustainable agriculture in Cuba. With extended stays in Havana and Pinar del Rio, this program introduces students to Cuba’s agricultural history and current realities and immerses them into the country’s policies and practices in sustainable and urban agriculture, community-based food production, and responsible economic development. Through readings, meetings, site visits, speaker presentations, discussions, workdays, meals, and individual and group reflections, students will explore these vital issues and benefit from numerous opportunities to learn from and interact with key policy makers, community leaders, and practitioners of permaculture and sustainable agriculture.
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ARUP 325 - Dominican Rep Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
Intensive, interdisciplinary study designed to develop the student’s cultural competence
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ARUP 326 - Explrng Buddhst Himlayas India
Unit(s): 4
This 3-week study abroad course with 12-hour pre-departure class meetings will explore the history, culture, and religion of Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala, India through reading materials, reciprocal service-learning opportunities at monastic and non-monastic institutions, lectures by local specialists and activists, conversations with Buddhist monastics and hermits about their beliefs and practices, observing cultural and religious festivities, and visiting sacred and historical sites. Through these learning resources, students will learn how Tibetan Buddhist culture continues to shape the lives of this largely immigrant community, and how individuals in turn give new meanings to their religion and culture in an era of globalization.
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ARUP 328 - Uruguay Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
Intensive, interdisciplinary study designed to develop the student’s cultural competence
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ARUP 329 - Nicaragua Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
Intensive, interdisciplinary study designed to develop the student’s cultural competence
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ARUP 330 - World Youth Day
Unit(s): 0 to 4
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ARUP 331 - Brazil Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
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ARUP 332 - Chile Arrupe Immersion
Unit(s): 0
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ARUP 601 - Women, Pov, Cath Social Thght
Unit(s): 4
The experiences of women migrants: how gender intersects with social justice issues (poverty, immigration) from the perspective of Catholic social teaching.
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ARUP 603 - Zambia Today
Unit(s): 4
Explore the strength of a community working together (Ubuntu) to get beyond the AIDS impasse.
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ARUP 604 - Public Health and Homelessness
Unit(s): 4
To work with the underserved in San Francisco, to witness and reflect upon this experience and their interactions with people who are in difficult, if not dire, straits, and to explore the factors that contribute to marginalization.
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ART 100 - Art Appreciation
Unit(s): 4
The course provides an understanding of the methods of identifying, interpreting, and evaluating ideas in the creative arts. Areas covered include art’s functions, the visual elements and principles of design, the styles of art, and the art object.
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ART 101 - Survey/Western Art History I
Unit(s): 4
Survey of Western Art History 1 introduces students chronologically to major themes, movements, and issues in Western Art History from prehistoric times through the Rococo (approximately 1750). This course is ordinarily restricted to Visual Arts and Architecture/Community Design Majors, although other students may be admitted on a space-available basis with permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: SAT Read HI SAT Write HI with a minimum score of 900 or ACT Engl HI ACT Read HI with a minimum score of 36 or S16 EVIDENCE-BASED READ/WRIT with a minimum score of 500 or RHET 106 or RHET 106N or TOEFL Total Score Internet with a minimum score of 94 or IELTS Overall Score with a minimum score of 7.0
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Major, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, European Studies Minor
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ART 102 - Survey/Western Art History 2
Unit(s): 4
Survey of Western Art History 2 studies the complex relationships between artists and the cultures in which they work, from 1750 to the present, exploring how art deals with questions of war and peace, social justice, religious belief, censorship, propaganda, gender, ethnic and social identity, and social critique.
Prerequisite: SAT Read HI SAT Write HI with a minimum score of 900 or ACT Engl HI ACT Read HI with a minimum score of 36 or S16 EVIDENCE-BASED READ/WRIT with a minimum score of 500 or RHET 106 or RHET 106N or TOEFL Total Score Internet with a minimum score of 94 or IELTS Overall Score with a minimum score of 7.0
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Major, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, European Studies Minor
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ART 103 - Drawing for Non-Majors
Unit(s): 4
In this course, students will cultivate observational skills and learn to use drawing tools, such as pencils, charcoal and ink to create drawings on a variety of traditional 2-dimensional surfaces. Technical aspects of the course will cover composition, shape, contrast, texture and gesture as they relate to the history of the medium. Field trips to museums and other resources will supplement readings and studio based assignments.
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ART 104 - Fabrication Lab
Unit(s): 1
Art + Architecture Fabrication Lab, a required course for students majoring in Architecture, Fine Arts and Design, offers students supervised professional construction and safety training using the Fabrication tools and equipment. Students complete a variety of practical construction-based projects to develop and practice proper material and tool use. The conceptual, theoretical and practical instruction received in this course will prepare students for studio based course work and provide future access to the tools and labs in the Department of Art + Architecture.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Architecture & Community Dsgn, Art History & Museum Studies, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Major
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ART 105 - The Imaginary Museum
Unit(s): 4
The Imaginary Museum presents the great formal and historical issues of art history in western and world art traditions, with emphasis on the styles of objective accuracy, formal order, emotion, and fantasy.
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ART 106 - Painting for Non-Majors
Unit(s): 4
Painting for Non-Majors is the exploration of painting space and illusion through light and color as related through acrylic painting. The examination of traditional and experimental methods of painting will be explored with regards to image making. The acquisition of technique and style within painting will provide students the foundation for discovering their unique self-expression.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Undergraduate
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ART 110 - History of Western Design
Unit(s): 4
This course presents an interdisciplinary historical study of the material world, focusing on designed objects of the western world. It challenges students to think critically about the rhetoric of design and examine the ways objects are both reflective of the culture that produced them and serve as devices for cultural change. Looking at case studies in industrial design, decorative arts, graphic design, fashion, and architecture, the course equips students with an understanding of how design practices, technologies, and cultural meaning have changed through time. Beyond the chronological focus, topical themes include gender, luxury and excess, revival styles, production and consumption, and user experience.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 120 - Art Fundamentals
Unit(s): 4
This core studio class introduces the student to the broad range of materials, methodologies, and strategies that compose the art and design program. The student will explore a series of studio problems that begin simple and move to greater complexity. The language of art and design point, line, plane, space, color, light, value, texture, proportion, and scale will be the framework of our 2D and 3D investigations. (Required for all BAVA majors)
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Art History & Museum Studies Major, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts Minor
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ART 130 - Drawing I
Unit(s): 4
This basic drawing class introduces the student to the notion of mark-making. We will look at the way representations are made, their structure in space, and their context. A range of materials from dry (i.e. charcoals, chalks, pencils) to wet (inks) and various surfaces will be studied.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Art History & Museum Studies Major, Art History/Arts Management, Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design Minor
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ART 140 - Design Fundamentals
Unit(s): 4
This foundational course introduces the principles of design that are central to visual problem solving. Students will investigate methodologies of process and research, production, and experimentation, with emphasis on drawing, color theory, photography, and motion.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 155 - Visual Communication I
Unit(s): 4
The Visual Communication series introduces the conceptual study of design in which visual messages are instruments of information, identification, & persuasion. In Vis Com I students will investigate methodologies of process, research, production, & experimentation, with emphasis on semiotics, visual rhetoric, typography & design history.
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Art History/Arts Management, Design, Art History & Museum Studies Major, Art History/Arts Management, Design Minor
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ART 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar
Unit(s): 4
First Year Seminars are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All FYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many FYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. FYSeminars are only open to students in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one FYS, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other FYSeminars this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman
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ART 199 - Methods/Theory in Art History
Unit(s): 2
This course offers an introduction to key methods and theories commonly used in the discipline of art history, examining multiple approaches to the interpretation of art and situating these approaches within their historical contexts. As such, it is a class about the history of art history rather than specific time periods, regions, or styles. Topics explored include the historiography of the field; the canon; iconography; formalism; feminist theory; Marxism; and post-modernism. The class includes a mixture of lecture, reading, and group discussion. Written assignments require students to articulate and apply the core methodologies studied.
Prerequisite: ART 102
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ART 200 - Museum Studies
Unit(s): 4
Introduction to Museum Studies presents the historical development of museums, their collection, exhibition and education functions, administration, physical facilities, fundraising and ethics. Particular attention will be given to issues of diversity and multiculturalism; relationship of museums to changing populations and disciplinary trends; and examination of diverse types of collections. USF’s Thacher Gallery serves as the laboratory for this course.
Prerequisite: (ART 101 or VA 101) and (ART 102 or VA 102)
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Art History/Arts Management, Museum Studies, Art History & Museum Studies Major, Art History/Arts Management, Museum Studies, Art History Minor
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ART 205 - Typography
Unit(s): 4
This course will introduce students to the practice, history, and theory of typography. Through design research, independent project work, and collaborative exercises, students will produce typographic solutions to applied and experimental problems using typography as their primary, if not exclusive, design element.
Prerequisite: ART 155
Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Design Major, Design Minor
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ART 206 - Women & Art
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the history of female artists from the Middle Ages to the present, with an emphasis on artists working in Europe and the United States for the first half of the course, and a global perspective on modern and contemporary art for the second. Students explore how the identity of the “woman artist” has been socially constructed over time, with particular emphasis upon how gender and sexual-identity, social class, race, and ethnicity have informed both artistic creation and reception. The course addresses how art history and institutions (educational and exhibition forums) have accounted for-or failed to account for-women’s artistic production in a global context.
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