Students integrate the study of architecture with strategies of graphic and information design, interaction design, or experience design. A flexible curriculum focused on key contemporary topics related to the built environment is combined with a broad understanding of the principles and systems of perception, communication, and action. Students integrate text and image to visualize concepts and data, create navigable interfaces and systems that allow audiences to take an active role to achieve meaningful goals, and take a holistic and integrative approach that focuses on the quality of the human experience in concrete situations. Successful students emerge with a strong portfolio suited to further graduate education or experience in architecture and design-related fields.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
NUpath attributes Engaging with the Natural and Designed World (ND), Exploring Creative Expression and Innovation (EI), Interpreting Culture (IC), Analyzing and Using Data (AD), and Engaging Differences and Diversity (DD) are met through the major course requirements.
In order to graduate, students must complete Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ) and Ethical Reasoning (ER) in their electives.
*Note: Students who wish to be eligible for the two-year Master of Architecture degree should take the following courses: Architectonic Systems (ARCH 2240), Architecture, Infrastructure, and the City (ARCH 3170), Structural Systems (ARCH 5230), along with calculus and physics.
Architectural Studies Courses
Code | Title | Hours |
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Required Courses | ||
ARCH 1110 | Fundamental Architectural Representation | 4 |
ARCH 1120 | Fundamental Architectural Design | 6 |
ARCH 1310 and ARCH 1311 | Buildings and Cities, A Global History and Recitation for ARCH 1310 | 4 |
ARCH 2130 | Site, Space, Program | 6 |
ARCH 2260 | Introduction to Building Systems | 4 |
ARCH 3450 | Advanced Architectural Communication | 4 |
Architecture History Elective | ||
Either ARCH 1370 or any ARCH 2300-level history course | 4 | |
Electives | ||
Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
Special Topics in Architectural History | ||
Understanding Design | ||
Urban Housing | ||
Any second ARCH 2300-level history course | ||
Architecture Topics Abroad: Theory | ||
Architecture Topics Abroad: Drawing | ||
Advanced Topics in Architectural History | ||
Urban and Architectural History Abroad | ||
Design Tactics and Operations |
Design Requirements
Code | Title | Hours |
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Art + Design Fundamentals | ||
ARTF 1122 | Color and Composition (with optional ARTF 1123) | 4 |
Art + Design Fundamentals Elective | ||
Complete one of the following: | 5 | |
Form and Structure and Form and Structure Tools | ||
Movement and Time and Movement and Time Tools | ||
Experience and Interaction and Experience and Interaction Tools | ||
Design Required | ||
ARTG 1001 and ARTG 1002 | Design Perspectives: An Introduction to Design in the World and Seminar for Design Perspectives | 4 |
ARTG 1270 and ARTG 1271 | Design: Process + Practices and Studio for Design: Process + Practices | 4 |
ARTG 1290 and ARTG 1291 | Typographic Systems and Studio for Typographic Systems | 4 |
Design Elective | ||
Complete any 4 SH ARTG course not otherwise required in the curriculum. 1 | 4 | |
Art + Design History Elective | ||
Complete any one art history course within the ARTH subject code. | 4 | |
Art + Design Elective | ||
Complete any one ARTD, ARTE, ARTF, ARTG, ARTH, ARTS, or GAME course as long as prerequisites have been met. | 4 | |
If ARTG 5000 Topics in Design (or any other topics course in the subjects listed above) is completed more than once, the additional completions may be allowed toward the electives. | ||
Degree Capstone Project | ||
ARTG 4550 | Design Degree Project | 4 |
- 1
Successful completion of both ARTG 2262 Prototyping with Code (2 SH) and Lab for ARTG 2262 (ARTG 2263) (2 SH) may satisfy this requirement.
Design Option
Code | Title | Hours |
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Complete one of the following options: | 8 | |
Experience Design Option | ||
Experience Design Principles | ||
Experience Design 2 | ||
Graphic Design Option | ||
Graphic Design Principles | ||
Graphic Design 2 | ||
Information Design Option | ||
Information Design Principles | ||
Topics in Information Design Inquiry | ||
Interaction Design Option | ||
Interaction Design Principles (with optional ARTG 2401) | ||
Interaction Design 2: Mobile |
Integrative Requirement
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
ARTG 4550 | Design Degree Project | 4 |
Major Credit Requirement
Complete 89 semester hours for the major.
Program Requirement
132 total semester hours required
Sample Four Years, Two Co-ops in Summer 2/Fall
Year 1 | |||||||
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Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
ARCH 1310 and ARCH 1311 | 4 | ARCH 1110 | 4 | A+D Fundamentals Elective | 5 | Vacation | |
ARTF 1000 or ARCH 1000 | 1 | ARCH 1120 | 6 | Elective | 4 | ||
ARTF 1122 (with optional ARTF 1123) | 4 | ARTG 1270 and ARTG 1271 | 4 | ||||
ARTG 1001 and ARTG 1002 | 4 | Architecture history elective | 4 | ||||
ENGW 1111 | 4 | ||||||
17 | 18 | 9 | 0 | ||||
Year 2 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
ARCH 2130 | 6 | ARCH 2340 and ARCH 2341 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
ARCH 2260 | 4 | ARCH 3450 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||
ARTG 1290 and ARTG 1291 | 4 | EEAM 2000 | 1 | ||||
Architecture elective | 4 | Art+Design History elective | 4 | ||||
Design Option level 1 | 4 | ||||||
18 | 17 | 8 | 0 | ||||
Year 3 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
Co-op | 0 | Architecture elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
ENGW 3314 or 3302 (online) | 4 | Art + Design elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||
Design Option level 2 | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
4 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
Year 4 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
Co-op | 0 | ARTG 4550 | 4 | ||||
Elective (online) | 4 | Architecture elective | 4 | ||||
Design elective | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
4 | 16 | ||||||
Total Hours: 135 |