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.
Provides a field-oriented seminar in current environmental impact controversies. Gives attention to history, theory, and application of impact analysis at state levels for designers, land-use planners, and others involved in resource decision making. By instructor consent, open to nonmajors on a space available basis.
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.
Introduces aspects of solar technology relevant to the environmental design professions. Includes readings and lectures on the nature of energy limitations, energy needs, and the potential role of solar energy in meeting these needs. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2130 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Introductory course creating interactive web sites. Covers use of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Flash to create linked pages containing text, images animations, menus, and buttons. Covers principles of site navigation, page layout, and graphic design for designers and planners. Credit not granted for this course and ENVD 2352. Requisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in design. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 3300 (minimum grade C-).
Illustrates techniques of graphics communication and presentation for architectural design. Includes advanced delineation and use of color. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 2130 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Explores digital photographic workflow from capture to exhibition. Students gain the ability to document their projects and utilize photography as a means of creative expression. Topics include: using DSLRs, Adobe Lightroom, retouching with Adobe Photoshop, time-lapse photography, Adobe Premier, professional printing, landscape and architectural photography, sharing work through blogs and social media, and submitting work for publication and exhibition.
Introduces the mechanics of entering 2-D images and 3-D objects into the computer. Once entered, graphics are interactively rotated in space, walked through, and displayed in perspective from any position. Also covers the mechanics of other computer programs allowing additional manipulation of images and objects.
Covers development of an architectural set of construction documents combined with job administration, field observation, and guest speakers from related construction and architectural disciplines. Requisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Explores the interdisciplinary field of environmental aesthetics, examining the history of landscape tastes, theoretical approaches to the study of aesthetic responses, and contemporary attempts to incorporate matters of aesthetics in American planning. Emphasizes developing analytical and critical approaches to aesthetics in the public realm.
Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in design. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 4100 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to 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.
Surveys, through lectures and readings, the major historical developments and contemporary directions in architectural theory. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ARCH 3114 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Provides an advanced seminar on special issues in design communications. May be repeated for credit by petition. Requisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Studio in landscape design. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 3300 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
Topics include animation and environmental simulation, computational methods of technical evaluation and optimization, and computational mapping and analysis. May be repeated for credit by petition. Requisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
A design studio exploring emerging issues and practices in historic preservation. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVD 3300 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
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.
Includes such topics as appropriate technology, public policy and natural hazards, organization of the designing and building process, and physical elements of urban development. Requisites: Restricted to Program in Environmental Design major or minor students only.
