- Concentrations and course offerings may vary by campus and/or by program modality. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for the course availability each term at your campus or within your program modality.
- Certain options within the program may be required at certain campuses or for certain program modalities. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for requirements at your campus or for your program modality.
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 Natural and Designed World (ND), Creative Expression and Innovation (EI), Interpreting Culture (IC), Societies and Institutions (SI), and Differences and Diversity (DD) are met through the major course requirements.
In order to graduate, students must complete Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ), Analyzing and Using Data (AD), and Ethical Reasoning (ER) in their electives.
Architecture Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| ARCH 1110 | Fundamental Architectural Representation | 4 |
| ARCH 1120 | Fundamental Architectural Design | 6 |
| ARCH 1310 | Buildings and Cities, A Global History | 4 |
| ARCH 1450 | Understanding Design | 4 |
| ARCH 2130 | Site, Space, Program | 6 |
| ARCH 2240 | Architectonic Systems | 4 |
| Architecure History Electives | 8 | |
Complete any two courses in the range of ARCH 2300–ARCH 2399. | ||
| Electives | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
| Advanced Topics in Architectural History | ||
| Advanced Architectural Communication | ||
| Design Tactics and Operations | ||
English Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational Courses | ||
| ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
| ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
| or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
| ENGL 1700 | Global Literatures 1 | 4 |
| or ENGL 1701 | Global Literatures 2 | |
English Electives
Two of the courses chosen from the lists below must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Diversity | ||
| Complete one course from the following. You may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below: | 4 | |
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Literature | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Asian-American Literature | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
| Literary Periods | ||
| Pre-1850 | ||
| Complete one course from the following: | 4 | |
| British Literature to 1800 | ||
| American Literature to 1865 | ||
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| The American Renaissance | ||
| Early Literatures | ||
| 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | ||
| Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures | ||
| Emerson and Thoreau | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
or JWSS 3678 | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | |
| Topics in Shakespeare | ||
| Post-1850 | ||
| Complete one of the following courses: | 4 | |
| The Graphic Novel | ||
| Contemporary Poetry | ||
| Contemporary Fiction | ||
| The Modern Bestseller | ||
| Postcolonial Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Asian-American Literature | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
| 20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure | ||
| Theories and Methods | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Grammar: The Architecture of English | ||
| Introduction to Rhetoric | ||
| Introduction to Research on Writing | ||
| Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
| Horror Fiction | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| What Is Nature? | ||
| Boston in Literature | ||
| Literary Genres | ||
| Rhetoric of Law | ||
| The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
| Opening the Archive | ||
| Film and Text (Abroad) | ||
| Narrative Medicine | ||
| Topics in Literary Criticism (reactivating for Fall 24) | ||
| Introduction to Language and Linguistics | ||
| Linguistic Analysis | ||
| Syntax | ||
| Semantics | ||
| History of English | ||
| Language and Gender | ||
| Topics in Linguistics | ||
| Major Seminar | ||
| ENGL 3710 | Major Seminar | 4 |
| Writing | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Creative Writing | ||
| Style and Editing | ||
| Digital Writing | ||
| Writing and Community Engagement | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Writing to Heal | ||
| Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | ||
| Writing Boston | ||
| Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Writing Seminar | ||
| The Writer’s Marketplace | ||
| English Electives | ||
| Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement. | 8 | |
Integrative Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ARCH 2330 | Architecture and the City in the Nineteenth Century | 4 |
| or ARCH 2340 | Modern Architecture | |
| ENGL 3375 | Writing Boston | 4 |
Program Requirement
128 total semester hours required
Sample Plan of Study
Four Years, No Co-ops
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ARCH 1000 or ENGL 1000 | 1 | ARCH 1110 | 4 | Vacation | Vacation | ||
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | ARCH 1120 | 6 | ||||
| ARCH 1310 | 4 | ENGL 1160 or 1410 | 4 | ||||
| ARCH 1450 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 1400 | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ARCH 2130 | 6 | Architecture history elective 2 | 4 | Vacation | Vacation | ||
| ARCH 2240 | 4 | Pre–1850 literature | 4 | ||||
| English diversity requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Architecture history elective 1 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Architecture elective 1 | 4 | Architecture elective 2 | 4 | Vacation | Vacation | ||
| Post-1850 literature | 4 | ENGW 3309 or 3314 | 4 | ||||
| English theories and methods requirement | 4 | ENGL 3710 | 4 | ||||
| English writing requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| ENGL 4710 | 4 | English elective 2 | 4 | ||||
| English elective 1 | 4 | ENGL 3375 | 4 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 133 | |||||||