Architecture Major

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will:

• Gain a historical foundation of architecture from pre-history to recent developments in the field through a broad and inclusive approach to the range of social and economic factors affecting the design of world cities and buildings
• Develop familiarity with social justice issues in under-served communities and developing regions of the world as well as more traditional perspectives on architectural history
• Develop critical skills and methodologies of inquiry, analysis, conceptual development, and resolution and presentation of design ideas
• Learn to integrate aspects of site, program, space, structure and material to create designs for buildings, which also actively respond to the historical, cultural, social and political exigencies of time and place
• Develop analytical tools that give attention to the various historic and social forces that intersect to create the built environment
• Gain a solid foundation in technical and conceptual design skills, enabling them to present their architectural ideas visually, verbally and in writing to clients, associates, and communities at the grass roots and municipal levels
• Graduate with the knowledge and skills enabling them to facilitate positive change to built environments in the world

Major Requirements (48 units)

Optional Elective

The 1-unit Art + Architecture lecture series does not count towards program requirements.

• ART 240 - Art + Arch Lecture Series