Courses

    The first of four upper-division studios introduces students to the basic strategies and techniques of architectural design. Focuses on the languages of design, as well as on traditional and digital methods of visualizing architectural ideas and forms. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2110 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Surveys architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1400, emphasizing developments in the Western world. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 2120 and ENVD 3115. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 1102, ENVD 1104 and ENVD 2003 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor or College of Engineering and Applied Sciences majors only.

    Focusing on buildings, this class surveys the built environment from the beginning of time through the present day. Emphasizing developments in the western world, it develops students' recognition of major styles, influential people, and drivers of building form.

    Surveys building methods, materials, and assemblies from the designer's perspective. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 2120 and ARCH 3114. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 1102, ENVD 1104 and ENVD 2003 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Explores topics of current interest in planning. Looks at the development and social consequences of the neighborhood movement, forms of municipal and regional governments, regional settlement patterns, and new communities. Introduces selected methods from the social sciences used by planners and urban designers. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 3100 and ENVD 3124. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 2130, ENVD 3003 and ENVD 3004 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Broadly introduces physical environmental planning inthe U.S., examining both historical roots and recent trends in American planning concepts and implementation. Emphasizes an analytical and critical approach to historical and contemporary planning issues, mechanisms, and cases. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 3100 and ENVD 3122. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 2130, ENVD 3003, and ENVD 3004 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2120 and ENVD 2130 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Focuses on design projects not in a building envelope, including landscapes, public and private urban spaces, complexes and similarly scaled design projects. Aspects of architectural and planning thinking are interwoven in a landscape concentration. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 1004 (minimum grade C-).
    Explores principles and uses of computer graphics in design. Topics include creation and modification of complex two- and three-dimensional objects; orthographic and perspective views; use of color; input using mouse and digitizer; output using screen, plotter, matrix printer, and slides; automated aids for form generation and manipulation; and analysis of current and future trends of computer usage for design. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 1052 and ENVD 1102 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Design studio dealing with problems at an intermediate level of complexity: emphasis is on the interaction of form, use, and multiple values and technologies in conjunction with issues and techniques drawn from other content area courses of the curriculum. Recommended prereq., ENVD 2130. Prerequisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Illustrates color media techniques for the preparation, composition, and presentation of landscape and built environment drawings. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2130 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Surveys architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design from A.D. 1400 to the present, emphasizing developments in the Western world. Open to nonmajors on a space available basis. Prerequisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students or College of Engineering and Applied Sciences majors only.
    See ENVD 2120. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2120 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.

    Provides an introductory computer programming course designed to teach the capabilities of a computer in providing graphic representations of environments, including buildings. Open to nonmajors.

    Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in environmental design. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ENVD 3100, ENVD 3122 and ENVD 3124 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    The second of the four upper-division studios focuses on concepts of medium-scale building design, siting, and climate. Through a number of design exercises, students learn how these factors help shape buildings. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 3110 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    Supervised practicum in some aspect of urban or regional planning. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 3220 (minimum grade C-).
    Introduces the integration of computing and the architectural design process and related representational tasks. Studies common computer-aided design programs, emphasizing two- and three-dimensional and animation techniques. Prerequisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
    By special arrangement with instructor. Department enforced, 3.00 GPA required. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 3100 (minimum grade C-).
    By special arrangement with instructor. Pass/Fail only. Department enforced, 3.00 GPA required. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
    Designed to explore the student transition to university life and engage students in active leadership and mentoring capacity-building activities. Examines the role peers play in leading students through transitional development. Students will learn the theoretical basis for understanding student transition and develop their mentoring capacities as well as examine personal identity and values and its intersection with leadership and mentorship. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior, or Senior) Program in Environmental Design majors only.
    Teaches students how to research the various codes and to draft and pass laws. Covers environmental, water quality, property, zoning, and building codes and laws. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2130 (minimum grade C-).
    Provides a seminar or design lab on special issues in environmental design, including study abroad. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours. Variable topic class. Recommended prereq., ENVD 2120. Prerequisites: Restricted to Environmental Design (ENVD) major or minor students only.
    Introduces basic processes and principles of architectural design. Provides a basis for understanding and evaluating architecture. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Architectural Engineering (AREN) majors only.

    Offers a seminar on imagination and creativity in environmental design. Students research and prepare a class presentation and paper on a topic of interest. Open to nonmajors at all levels.

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