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Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Courses


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Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design

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Architecture

  • ARCH 1198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  • ARCH 1200 - Introduction to Architecture Design, Industrial Design, & Interior Arch

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 1200.

    Introduction to architecture, industrial design, and interior architecture theory, history, technology, and practice.

  • ARCH 1359 - Design Since 1945

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 1200.

    Interdisciplinary history of modern and contemporary design, concentration on 1945 to the present. Reading and writing based on primary and secondary sources.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  • ARCH 1360 - Architectural Sketching I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: major in the College of Architecture and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 1200

    Architectural sketching. Representing and interpreting architecture and entourage using conventional techniques and skills.

  • ARCH 1500 - Design Studio I

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: major in the College of Architecture and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 1200.

    Basic principles of design and communication of design.

  • ARCH 1501 - Design Studio II

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 1500.

    Basic principles of design and communication of design. Continuation of ARCH 1500.

  • ARCH 1598 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

    Foundation level building science.

  • ARCH 2197 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of college advisor

    Selected Topics

    Note: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
  • ARCH 2230 - Programming & Bldg Regulations

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2500 and credit for, or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 2501.

    Preparation of a program for an architectural project, including client and user needs, space and equipment requirements, site conditions, relevant laws and standards, and site selection and design assessment criteria.

  • ARCH 2298 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • ARCH 2327 - Technology I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: MATH 1330 and ARCH 1501 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 2500.

    Foundation level building science.

  • ARCH 2328 - Technology 2

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2327 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 2501 or INAR 2501.

    Intermediate level building science.

  • ARCH 2350 - Survey of Architectural History I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1304.

    History of eastern and western architecture and art from ancient Egypt through 1750 with attention to cultural, philosophical and technical influences.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  • ARCH 2351 - Survey of Architectural History II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1304.

    History of eastern and western architecture and art from 1750 to the present with attention to cultural, philosophical and technical influences.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  • ARCH 2397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of college advisor.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  • ARCH 2398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor

    Problem solving as it relates to architecture and design, exploration of ordering systems, and translation occurring from abstract reasoning to design reality. Students must pass a portfolio review.

  • ARCH 2500 - Architecture Design Studio III

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 1501 and 1359 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 2327.

    Problem solving as it relates to architecture and design, exploration of ordering systems, and translation occurring from abstract reasoning to design reality. Students must pass a portfolio review.

  • ARCH 2501 - Architecture Design Studio IV

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2500 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 2328 and passing portfolio review.

    Development of design process and communication media; qualifying and quantifying aspects of building design.

  • ARCH 3198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

    Independent Study

  • ARCH 3298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • ARCH 3327 - Technology 3

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2328 and PHYS 1301 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 3500.

    Intermediate level building science focusing on site scale issues.

  • ARCH 3328 - Technology 4

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3327 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 3501 and PHYS 1302.

    Intermediate level building science focusing on quantitative measures.

  • ARCH 3335 - Digital Fabrication

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2500. Exploration of parametric design and digital fabrication.

    Exploration of parametric design and digital fabrication. Through the process of making, students realize complex geometries which may be applied to any scale from cities to objects.

  • ARCH 3342 - Shape of the City

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and 2351

    Readings from Henry James, Jane Jacobs, J. B. Jackson, Reyner Banham, and others about American cities as topographical, cultural, and social phenomena, with analytical writing projects about Houston.

  • ARCH 3343 - Latin American Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and 2351 or equivalent.

    Development and significance of Latin American architecture. Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern built environments with an emphasis on mapping the creation and transfer of culture.

  • ARCH 3347 - Evolution of Arch Interiors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and ARCH 2351 or consent of instructor.

    The evolution of interior architectural spaces through the contributions of architects, designers, decorators, industrial designers, and editors. The house as a design laboratory and the integrated interior.

  • ARCH 3353 - Architecture of Middle Ages

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and ARCH 2351 or consent of instructor.

    Western European architecture of the Middle Ages (ca. 300-1500), investigated through the medium of the built environment and through texts that reveal aspects of medieval culture, aesthetics, philosophy, and building techniques.

  • ARCH 3354 - The Culture of Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and 2351.

    An investigation of how architects learn, think, and work in our own time and times past. Special emphasis is given to the Modern Movement and its critics and to the thought and production of influential architects and theories including Alberti, Palladio, Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, Guadet, Loos, Le Corbusier and Venturi and Scott Brown.

  • ARCH 3356 - City As Palimpsest: Paris

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and ARCH 2351 or consent of instructor.

    Seminar investigating Parisian architecture and urban development from the Roman period to the present via the metaphor of the palimpsest.

  • ARCH 3358 - History of Asian Arch and Art

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350:ARCH 2351 or consent of instructor.

    Architectural history, methodology, art, and the cultural forces that shaped the Eastern tradition.

  • ARCH 3365 - Architectural Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350, and ARCH 2351.

    Methods of research in architecture adapted to individual student-generated topics.

  • ARCH 3366 - Materials and Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Construction systems, advanced and emerging technologies, scheduling, and budgeting.

  • ARCH 3368 - Sustainable Development

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing.

    New perspectives in development: overview of environmental and ecological systems, land use, smart growth, new organisms, traffic and transportation, brownfield development and mitigation, site development, and marketing.

  • ARCH 3369 - Architecture of the Chapel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350  and ARCH 2351 .

    Architectural history of the chapel building type from its origins to the present.

  • ARCH 3369 - Architecture of the Chapel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and 2351.

    Architectural history of the chapel building type from its origins to the present.

  • ARCH 3371 - Landscape, Ecology, Urbanism

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and ARCH 2351.

    Exploration of historical and contemporary ideas about architecture and urbanism through the lens of landscape, ecology, infrastructure, and energy.

  • ARCH 3372 - Architecture of the Object

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2501 or INDS 2501.

    Project based course defining the relationship between industrial design and discoveries found in architecture. Building on a foundation of basic design and research skills, projects further the definition of detail in the object.

  • ARCH 3375 - Arch Design for Non-Majors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: open to non-architecture majors only

    May be used toward satisfying architecture minor requirements. Introduction to architectural design, theory, and practice. Students outside the College of Architecture work in a design studio setting on a variety of architecture and urban design problems. Project work supplemented by lectures, readings, field trips, and discussions.

  • ARCH 3380 - Architecture Plus Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ARCH 3500.

    An exploration of the cross-fertilization between architecture and film by examining how architecture is represented in film; the narrative aspect of architecture, film as a mirror of the present and as anticipation of the future of architecture, auteur cinema/director vs. architecture/architect, and the idea of gesamtkunstwerk.

  • ARCH 3393 - Thesis Preparation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of the Director of Thesis Program.

    Thesis topic development and written project proposal.

  • ARCH 3397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of college advisor.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  • ARCH 3398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

    Independent Study

  • ARCH 3498 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 4.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • ARCH 3500 - Architecture Design Studio V

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2501 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 3327.

    Building design as it relates to site context, spatial organization, and constructional systems.

  • ARCH 3501 - Architecture Design Studio VI

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3500 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 3328

    A continuation of ARCH 3500 with special emphasis on the development of diverse building program in individual studios.

  • ARCH 3598 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

    Special Problems

  • ARCH 4298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • ARCH 4321 - Design of Construction Details

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3500

    The theory and practice of developing architectural details.

  • ARCH 4324 - High-Rise Structures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3328.

    Structural design concepts and building systems in tall buildings.

  • ARCH 4325 - Building Systems Integration

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 4328 and ARCH 3501.

    Case study analyses of contemporary architecture with an emphasis on tracing the original work’s design processes through a technical systems approach.

  • ARCH 4328 - Technology 6 Practice of Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3501 and ARCH 3328.

    Office operations and project administration in the practice of architecture.

  • ARCH 4336 - Graphic Realization in Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2501 and ARCH 3331 or consent of instructor.

    Integration of digital and manual graphic tools with verbal presentation to communicate design.

  • ARCH 4351 - Readings & Criticism in Arch

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350; ARCH 2351 or consent of instructor.

    Critical writing based on selected reading in architecture.

  • ARCH 4352 - Wright Mies Corbusier

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350: ARCH 2351 or consent of instructor.

    Search for the truth studying Wright, Mies, and Corbusier in the perspective of historic precedents, as well as observing the effect of their work on architecture.

  • ARCH 4353 - Postmodern: Arch Since 1950

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350: ARCH 2351 or consent of instructor.

    The theory and development of architectural design of the most recent times. Studies in architectural pluralism in the 1960s and 1980s.

  • ARCH 4353 - Postmodern: Architecture Since 1950

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 ; ARCH 2351  or consent of instructor.

    The theory and development of architectural design of the most recent times. Studies in architectural pluralism in the 1960s and 1980s.

  • ARCH 4354 - Ideas and Buildings

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and ARCH 2351.

    History and theory of ideas and buildings of important living architects, including: architectural detail; tectonics; design relationships between inside and outside; well-tempered building environment; and the architect/engineer relationship.

  • ARCH 4355 - Houston Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and ARCH 2351 or consent of instructor

    Survey of Houston architecture, past and present.

  • ARCH 4367 - Case Studies:Sustainable Arch

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3365, ARCH 3366, and ARCH 3501.

    Green Revolution, sustainability, and ecological restoration. Sustainability measurements including biomimcry, ecological footprint, embodied energy, and full cost accounting. Building components sustainability by CSI division. LEED certification overview.

  • ARCH 4373 - Urban Environments

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 and 2351 or SOC 1300 or PSYC 1300.

    History of eastern and western architecture and art from 1750 to the present with attention to cultural, philosophical and technical influences.

  • ARCH 4374 - World Cities

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304.

    Critical exploration of cities of cities of the world from different geographical, chronological and disciplinary perspectives. Development of analytical tools for understanding complex urban phenomena.

  • ARCH 4375 - Capitalism, Arch and the City

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350, ARCH 2351 and ARCH 2501.

    Seminar exploring determinants of urban form throughout history.

  • ARCH 4376 - Community Design Workshop

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3501.

    Introduction to participatory and democratic community design and planning strategies, including skills such as mapping, demographic analysis, information gathering, visioning, implementation and policy.

  • ARCH 4390 - Landscape Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350, ARCH 2351 and ARCH 2501

    Landscape as the bridge between the man-made and natural.

  • ARCH 4393 - Thesis Publication

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3395 and concurrent enrollment ARCH 5595; Documentation of ARCH 3395: Thesis Preparation and ARCH 5595:

    Thesis Project in bound book form.

  • ARCH 4397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of college advisor

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  • ARCH 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

    Independent Study

  • ARCH 4427 - Technology 5

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3428.

    Advanced building science focusing on integrative design process, materials, and delivery process.

  • ARCH 4498 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 4.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • ARCH 4500 - Architecture Design Studio VII

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350, ARCH 2351, and ARCH 3501

    Exploration of large scale buildings and urban design factors including programming, aspects of land development, and the human and environmental impact of individual design applications in the built environment.

  • ARCH 4501 - Architecture Design Studio VIII

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350, 2351, and 3501.

    Design development and technical documentation.

  • ARCH 4510 - Comprehensive Design Studio

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350, 2351, 3501, and 3328, and successful Sixth Studio Review

    Comprehensive development or architectural design and building systems from schematic design through detailed development.

  • ARCH 4598 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 5    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • ARCH 5360 - Practice of Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3501 and ARCH 4344.

    Office operations and project administration in the practice of architecture.

  • ARCH 5397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2501 .

  • ARCH 5398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • ARCH 5427 - Technology 7

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 4428

    Independent building science research topics.

  • ARCH 5498 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 4.0
       
    Prerequisite: Approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • ARCH 5500 - Architecture Design Studio IX

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 2350 , 2351 , 3501  and successful Sixth Studio Review.

    Design studio: advanced architectural ideas. May be repeated for credit.

  • ARCH 5501 - Architecture Design Studio X

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3428 and ARCH 3501.

    Design studio: comprehensive development of architectural design and building systems from schematic design through detailed development.

  • ARCH 5593 - Thesis Project

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3393  and concurrent enrollment in ARCH 4393 .

    Execution and defense of thesis project proposal.

  • ARCH 5597 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3428 and ARCH 3501.

    Topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  • ARCH 5598 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 5    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approval of college advisor and instructor.

Industrial Design

  • INDS 1360 - Visual Thinking

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: major in the College of Architecture, or approval of the dean.

    Visual thinking and visualization processes using diverse materials and media. Emphasis on creative and critical thinking through hands-on drawing exercises and explorations.

  • INDS 1501 - Industrial Design Studio II

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 1500 and Industrial Design major.

    Basic principles of industrial design and 2D/3D visual communication skills. Students must pass the freshman portfolio review to successfully complete the course.

  • INDS 2198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • INDS 2298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • INDS 2340 - Visual Communication

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Formerly INDS 2340 Visual Communication I
    Prerequisite: INDS major or consent of instructor.

    Visual language and creative design problem solving with two-dimensional software programs, including Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

  • INDS 2341 - Computer Aided Industrial Design I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: INDS 2340.

    Introduction to the process of exploring designs with three-dimensional modeling and rendering program with Solid Works.

  • INDS 2355 - Design History I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1304 .

    Survey of the history of design and art from the age of the industrial revolution to the postwar period with emphasis on the influence of cultural, philosophical, and technical forces.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  • INDS 2356 - Design History II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1304 .

    Contemporary design and art with emphasis on the influence of cultural, philosophical, and technical forces.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  • INDS 2360 - Materials and Methods I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: INDS major or consent of instructor.

    Understanding materials, fabrication and manufacturing processes common in the industrial design field. Investigation through prototyping techniques involving plastics, wood, metal, and castable materials.

  • INDS 2362 - Visual Presentation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: INDS 1360 and INDS 2340 or consent of instructor.

    Advanced visual thinking and visualization processes with an emphasis on board design, process booklet and design portfolio development. Emphasis on publication design and systematic data organization.

  • INDS 2397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of college advisor and instructor.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  • INDS 2398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • INDS 2500 - Industrial Design Studio III

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: ARCH 1500 and 1501 and INDS 1360.

    Basic problem solving with an emphasis on the relationship between form and function. Students must pass a portfolio review to successfully complete the course and to proceed to INDS 2501.

  • INDS 2501 - Industrial Design Studio IV

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: INDS 2500 and passing portfolio review.

    Development of creative design problem solving with appropriate design processes.

  • INDS 2598 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • INDS 3198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

  • INDS 3298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.

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