ON CAMPUS CLASSES
Course Name: ARCH1111 Architectural Drawing
Course Description: Engage in a breadth of architectural representation and design technologies. Develop skills in architectural communication, professionalism, learning culture, and technological agility.
Semester: Fall 2024 on campus
Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thur
Class Time(s): 8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH2111 Construction Documents
Course Description: Create and develop building construction drawings and specification. Apply building regulations and codes to inform design development. Engage in collaborative building information management.
Semester: Fall 2024 on campus
Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thus
Class Time(s): 8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH3110 City & Site
Course Description: Apply the fundamental and experimental approaches to a rigorous design process. Apply design thinking at a city scale, through a non-polemic, iterative, multimedia approach.
Semester: Fall 2024 - on campus
Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thur
Class Time(s): 8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH4110 Research and Culture
Course Description: Apply architectural research to design while engaging a real world client and project. Employ an inclusive and participatory design process through engagement with various community stakeholders. Examine the relationship of architecture to public process and community development.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on campus
Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thu
Class Time(s): 8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH5110 Integrative Design
Course Description: Integrate site, regulatory, and program elements to create an architectural work. Demonstrate design intent within the design and development of building systems. Demonstrate integrative design through varying forms of architectural representation.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on campus
Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thur
Class Time(s): 8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH1131 Building Systems
Course Description: Analyze a breadth of building systems and their associative materials and assemblies. Analyze the basic principles of building structural and envelope systems.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed
Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH3130 Early Global History
Course Description: Research and analyze architecture of the world throughout history. Examine the relationships between culture, geography, politics, race, and the ways in which they shape the built environment.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed
Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH3120 2D Rendering
Course Description: Research design thinking through 2D rendering methods. Explain the fundamentals of a design process, iteration, rigor, critical representation, and architectural communication.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed
Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH4130 Globalization & the Vernacular
Course Description: Identify distinctions between vernacular and formal architecture traditions around the globe. Elaborate on the tensions between the role of architecture in urban and rural landscapes, as well as the distinctions between city and country. Catalog global vs. local processes in the structure of the city and place making. Build vocabulary and make distinctions in terminology such as culture, diversity, equity, modernity, pre-modern, agricultural, rural.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed
Class Time(s) 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH5130 Systems & Envelope
Course Description: Research and analyze the building envelope and its performative relationship to building systems. Discover ways in which building systems are designed to reinforce architectural thought. Analyze works of architecture with a focus on integrative thinking.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed
Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH5120 Thesis Preparation
Course Description: Research and analyze the building envelope and its performative relationship to building systems. Discover ways in which building systems are designed to reinforce architectural thought. Analyze works of architecture with a focus on integrative thinking.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed
Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00pm
Course Name: ARCH11141 The Profession
Course Description: Engage in the profession of architecture and acquire knowledge of architectural licensure, career paths, and forms of practice. Develop proficiency in professional communication and behavior.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Mon
Class Time(s): 12:30p-2:30p
Course Name: ARCH3140 Landscape
Course Description: Explore how form can integrate with and grow from natural systems, as well as how natural systems can integrate into architectural works through legible, self-evident user interaction with processes and phenomena.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Tue
Class Time(s): 12:30p-2:30p
Course Name: ARCH4140 Urbanism
Course Description: Research and analyze ideas of urbanism and their relationship to architecture within a design process. Perform comparative analysis of the Twin Cities and other urban centers through a series of case studies.
Semester: Fall 2024 – on Campus
Day(s) of the week: Tue
Class Time(s): 12:30p-2:30p