Guide to Graduate Concentrations

This concentration introduces construction management concepts and principles as applied to contemporary practice and investigates the intersecting roles of construction managers, architects, clients, and general contractors. Topics encompass planning, programming, and documentation from pre-construction to project close-out; legal aspects relative to environmental protection, contract documents; insurance and bonds; labor relations and inspection; project control; heavy construction skills and ethics; and the development of analytical and communication skills. 

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Note: The delivery method of courses (on-campus, online, or hybrid) are as posted on Bannerweb. All forms are to be emailed to the CM Program Coordinator. 

This concentration provides a foundation in the field of historic preservation. Courses cover contemporary practice and fieldwork, urban revitalization and sustainability issues, building conservation, methods of archival research, standards for documentation, American architectural traditions, as well as design considerations in the adaptive reuse of historic structures. 

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This concentration introduces the economic, social and physical issues inherent in environmentally and fiscally sustainable real estate and land-use development. Through real-world case studies presented by leading developers, coursework encompasses market analysis and valuation, finance and investment, legal issues of ownership and land-use, public-private partnerships, urban regeneration and adaptive reuse, construction science and management, in addition to multiple design and development paradigms and their long-term local, national, and global impacts. Sustainable strategies inform a curriculum sensitive both to the ethical dimension of development and the parameters of a capital-driven market.

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The concentration introduces students to the theory of sustainability and how it is applied in the built environment. Students will be grounded in the methodologies of sustainable design, learn to measure, predict and design for thermal comfort, adaptable opportunities and resilience across scales. Students will also learn how to design and calculate sustainable systems, and learn to evaluate, compare, perform life cycle analyses of materials.

* Available as an asynchronous course. The schedule for the course is not decided until the beginning of the semester. This means that students can take this course even if there is a conflict and watch the recorded lectures each week.

** This course is sometimes offered in the spring as well on Wednesday afternoons

This concentration prepares students to design and deliver sustainability initiatives in current or future organizations. With the curriculum’s project-based approach, students will build vital skills in problem scoping, systems modeling, solution framing and change management and immediately apply these skills to the sustainability challenges facing assigned organizations or clients.

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* Available as an asynchronous course. The schedule for the course is not decided until the beginning of the semester. This means that students can take this course even if there is a conflict and watch the recorded lectures each week.

This concentration in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) provides students with the opportunity to learn and apply advanced spatial techniques and spatial thinking to various disciplines related to design of the built environment. Courses span introduction to advanced concepts and include desktop as well as internet technologies.

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This concentration prepares students to design and analyze planning, management, and operational functions of smart cities. The credential gives students the technical and theoretical skills needed to make a difference to the cities of today and tomorrow.

This concentration introduces students to both theory and application of interior architecture in the built environment. Students will be grounded in the methodologies of interior architecture, focus on the design and construction of the built environment through an interiors perspective, consider how human behavior influences the built environment and consider how the well-being of humans and the natural environment influences interior design. Students will also learn how the interaction of space, form, light, color, materiality and furniture transforms our lived experience in buildings.

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