Jun 16, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Arabic

  
  • ARAB 2301 - Intermediate Arabic I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of ARAB 1502  with a minimum grade of C- in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or by placement exam immediately prior to enrollment.

    Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • ARAB 2302 - Intermediate Arabic II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of ARAB 2301  with a minimum grade of C- in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or by placement exam immediately prior to enrollment.

    Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • ARAB 2307 - Arabic for Native Speakers I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: placement by examination.

    Designed for Arab-American and other students from an Arabic-speaking background. Emphasis on basic skills in reading, spelling, and composition.

  
  • ARAB 3301 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARAB 2302  or ARAB 2308  or placement by examination.

    Readings of Arabic materials, including poems, short stories, plays, and newspaper articles dealing with social, political, and cultural issues, and the development of writing skills through free composition exercises.

  
  • ARAB 3302 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARAB 3301  or placement by examination.

    Advanced readings of Arabic materials, including poems, short stories, plays, and newspaper articles dealing with social, political, and cultural issues, and continued development of writing skills through free composition exercises.

  
  • ARAB 3303 - Qur’anic and Classical Arabic

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARAB 3302 , or placement by examination, or consent of instructor.

    Readings and analysis of the Qur’an and Hadith (Sayings of the Prophet).

  
  • ARAB 3305 - Introduction to Arabic Culture, Language, and Islam

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARAB 3302  or equivalent.

    Students may not receive credit for both ARAB 3305  and ANTH 3306 . Taught in Arabic. Arabic culture through studies of topics such as the origins of the language, relations with the West, social and political issues, the role of women, and the role of Islam.

  
  • ARAB 3306 - Introduction to Arabic Culture, Language, and Islam

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

    Students may not receive credit for both ANTH 3305  and ARAB 3306 . Taught in English. Arabic culture through studies of topics such as the origins of the language, relations with the West, social and political issues, the role of women, and the role of Islam.

  
  • ARAB 3312 - Introduction to Arabic Literature in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Arabic literary culture from the earliest recorded sources to the present; essentials of the history and culture of the Arabs.

  
  • ARAB 3313 - Qur’an as Literature

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

    Literary and historical study of the Qur’an in the context of late antique religious literature (ca. 180-632 CE), including texts from the Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian and pagan spheres. Taught in English.

  
  • ARAB 3314 - Women and Gender in Arabic Literature

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

    Critical survey of literature by and about Arab women focusing on a particular theme. Taught in English.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • ARAB 3340 - Modernity and Rationalism in Islamic Tradition

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

    Systematic analysis of classical Islamic philosophical discourse and its contribution to the development of Islamic Modem ism and Arab Enlightenment; including the Qur’an, Ghazali, Averroes, Muhammad Abduh, and Nasr Abu Zayd. Taught in English

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ARAB 3397 - Selected Topics in Arab Studies

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

    Topics vary depending on needs of Department and students. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.


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 1298 - Independent Study

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

  
  • 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 1398 - Independent Study

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

  
  • 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 two-dimensional and three dimensional design and design communication. Introduction to digital media.

  
  • ARCH 1501 - Design Studio II

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

    Analysis of spatial strategies, ordering systems, and design communication through analog and digital means. Introduction to the design process.

  
  • 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: 2.0
    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 and Interior 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 .

    Introduction to architecture and interior architecture design strategies through a series of small scale design problems. Students must pass a portfolio review to continue the design studio sequence.

  
  • 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 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 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 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: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 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 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 3328  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 4327 - Technology 5

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ARCH 4427 Technology 5
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3328 .

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

  
  • 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: 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: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 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 5327 - Technology 7

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ARCH 5427 Technology 7
    Prerequisite: ARCH 3328 .

    Research in architectural topics.

  
  • 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: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 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: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of college advisor and instructor.


Art

  
  • ART 1301 - Fundamentals of Drawing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    The use of graphic media to explore fundamental visual relationships.

    TCCNS Equivalent: ARTS 1316
  
  • ART 1304 - Fundamentals of Painting

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    An introduction to the basic perceptual and technical Problems involved in various painting media.

  
  • ART 1310 - Fundamentals of Printmaking

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Fine art printing through basic techniques of relief printing, etching, and lithography.

  
  • ART 1330 - Fundamentals of Graphic Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Principles of design and problem solving skills through basic form, structure and compositional studies.

  
  • ART 1350 - Fundamentals of Ceramics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Ceramic design and basic forming and firing techniques.

  
  • ART 1360 - Fundamentals of Sculpture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 1371 - Fundamentals of Photography/Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Basic perceptual and technical issues of lens-generated imagery.

  
  • ART 1372 - Fundamentals of Video Art

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Exploration of basic technical and perceptual aspects of video in a fine art context.

  
  • ART 1382 - Fundamentals of Digital Tools

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Introduction to working with pixel and vector based images at a digital workstation.

  
  • ART 1383 - Introduction to New Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Introduction to multimedia programming for use with audio, video and interactive environments.

 

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