The School of Architecture and Department of English offer an interdisciplinary combined major in architecture and English. Students interested in the combined major integrate the study of literature and writing with the rigorous design methods of architecture. This program offers a flexible curriculum focused on key contemporary topics related to the built environment.
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 |
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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 |
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English Course-Level Requirement | ||
In addition to the capstone, two of the courses completed from the lists below must be numbered 3000–4999. | ||
Introduction to College | ||
ENGL 1000 | English at Northeastern | 1 |
Foundational Courses | ||
ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
Diversity | ||
Complete one of the following. This course may also be used to fulfill an additional English requirement below: | 4 | |
Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
Early African-American Literature | ||
Postcolonial Literature | ||
American Women Writers | ||
Writing in Global Contexts | ||
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
Pre–Nineteenth-Century Literature | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
Global Literatures 1 | ||
Early African-American Literature | ||
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century Literature | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
The American Renaissance | ||
The Graphic Novel | ||
The Modern Bestseller | ||
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
Contemporary Israeli Literature and Art Abroad | ||
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 | ||
Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
Rhetoric of Law | ||
Technologies of Text | ||
The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
Narrative Medicine | ||
Introduction to Language and Linguistics | ||
Linguistic Analysis | ||
Syntax | ||
Semantics | ||
History of English | ||
Language and Gender | ||
Topics in Linguistics | ||
Comparative Literature | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
American Literature to 1865 | ||
Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
Contemporary Poetry | ||
Contemporary Fiction | ||
Postcolonial Literature | ||
American Women Writers | ||
Horror Fiction | ||
Science Fiction | ||
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
What Is Nature? | ||
Boston in Literature | ||
Film and Text (Abroad) | ||
Writing | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Creative Writing | ||
Style and Editing | ||
Writing and Community Engagement | ||
Writing in Global Contexts | ||
Writing to Heal | ||
Visual Writing | ||
Writing Boston | ||
Creative Nonfiction | ||
Poetry Workshop | ||
Fiction Workshop | ||
Writing Seminar | ||
The Writer’s Marketplace | ||
Capstone | ||
ENGL 4710 | Capstone Seminar | 4 |
or ENGL 4720 | Capstone Project | |
English Electives | ||
Complete two additional ENGL electives. | 8 |
Integrative Requirement
Code | Title | Hours |
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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 Four Years, No Co-ops
Year 1 | |||||||
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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–nineteenth-century 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 | ||
Nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century literature | 4 | English comparative literature | 4 | ||||
English theories and methods requirement | 4 | ENGW 3309 or 3314 | 4 | ||||
English writing requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Year 4 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
ENGL 4710 or 4720 | 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 |