Curriculum

Total Credit Hours: 165-166

Year One

  • Design 1: Interdisciplinary Foundation Studies (Fall)
  • Drawing 1 (Fall)
  • Design 2: Architecture Foundation Studies (Spring)
  • Visualization Elective (Spring)
    • ADFND-112, ADFND-104, INTD-106, ADFND-110, LARCH-203
Hallmarks Core
  • Pathways Seminar
  • Writing Seminar I
  • Debating U.S. Issues
  • Science I: SCI-108 or SCI-110
  • Science II: General Physics
  • Quantitative Reasoning I
  • Quantitative Reasoning II or Free Elective

Year Two

  • Design 3: Architecture Foundation Studies (Fall)
  • Technology 1: Material and Methods (Fall)
  • History 1: Built Environment, Ancient to Medieval (Fall)
  • Visualization 1: Digital Modeling (Fall)
  • Design 4: Architecture Foundation Studies (Spring)
  • Technology 2: Passive System Building Enclosure (Spring)
  • History 2: Renaissance/Baroque (Spring)
  • Structures 1 (Spring)
Hallmarks Core
  • Ethics
  • Writing Seminar II: Multimedia Communication

Year Three

  • Design 5: for Architecture (Fall)
  • Technology 3:Dynamic Environmental Systems (Fall)
  • Structures 2 (Fall)
  • History 3: Early Modern 1750-1940 (Fall)
  • Design 6: for Architecture (Spring)
  • Visualization 2: Advanced Modeling (Fall or Spring)
  • History 4: Modern/Contemporary (Spring)
  • Technology 4: Advanced Building Analysis
Hallmarks Core
  • American Diversity
  • Global Citizenship

Year Four

  • Nexus Design Experience
  • Design 8: for Architecture
  • Technology 5: Documentation and Detailing
  • Theory Seminar
Hallmarks Core
  • Debating Global Issues
  • Integrative Seminar
  • Global Diversity (or language)
Electives
  • 6 credits

Year Five

  • Design 9: for Architecture (Fall)
  • Professional Management (Fall or Spring)
  • Design 10: for Architecture (Spring)
Hallmarks Core
  • Capstone Folio Workshop
Electives
  • 12 credits