Transitions first-year ENVD students into college through the process of discovering their path to educational success. Provide opportunities to facilitate learning through peer support groups and curricular integration with the ENVD core classes. Requisites: Restricted to Environmental Design (ENVD) major or minor students only.
Examines reciprocal relationships between people and their built and natural environments, tracing major issues and approaches in design research to understand how people are influenced by the environment and how they can create healthy, just, and livable places. Department enforced coreqs., ENVD 1004 and 1052.
Examines the social and behavioral aspects of relationships between people and the designed environment. Gives special attention to antecedent factors (why we have the environments we do), implications of given arrangements for special population groups, and responses to incongruent environments. Open to nonmajors on a space available basis. Requisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2120 and ENVD 2130 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Critically reviews and analyzes land use policies, the ethics and economics of air and water pollution, regional sustainability, and resource management. Includes critical evaluation of empirical methodologies, and criteria of cultural and social equity. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
A seminar providing students with a descriptive knowledge and analytical understanding of the use and development of residential settings in different political economies, globally divided into advanced capitalist nations, collectivist economies, and the third world.
Addresses variable topics in the relationship of human experience and behavior to the built environment, e.g., social research methods in environmental design. Requisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
