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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to relationships between human language, culture and society. Students examine and explore the properties of human language that make it unique. The course encourages students to address the prominent role of language in cultural models and in social organizations.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the rich culture, history, and development of different native peoples from select regions of North America, from the arrival of Ice-Age hunter-gatherers, through European contact, to the present. Topics such as social structure, subsistence, settlement, religion, technology, architecture, and art are examined from regional perspectives. Prerequisite: ANTH 101.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture/seminar course introduces students to the theories and profession of architecture and encourages creative and analytical thought. By considering the entire scope of the discipline and the profession, the course focuses on developing an ability to ask appropriate questions in relation to decision making regarding the built environment. Students explore the abstract, spatial, social/cultural, environmental and tectonic concepts that affect the built environment.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to building materials and their use in wood and masonry construction. The class also promotes an understanding of the various constructed assemblies, both structural and nonstructural, which, when combined, form a complete building. Prerequisites: ARCH 101 or INDS 110, and DRAW 115.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the basic principles of the strength of materials, applied mechanics and structural theory as a basis for structural problem solving. Prerequisites: MATH 201, PHYS 201.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the first in a sequence of architectural design studio courses designed to develop students' abilities to create meaningful architectural design solutions. In this course, students solve simple architectural design problems. The course concentrates on the ways in which basic human factors affect and inform architectural design. Lectures include topics such as behavioral aspects of design and human aspiration. Prerequisites: ARCH 101, ARCH 241, ARCH 252, ARTH 110, ARLH 208, DSGN 224, DSGN 225, ELDS 225.
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3.00 Credits
This studio course concentrates on the ways in which a building's site and environmental context influence architectural design. Students conduct simple site analyses and make design decisions on that basis. The ability to create meaningful design solutions and fulfill simple programmatic requirements is also emphasized. Lectures include topics such as environmental and site issues and the meaning of places. Prerequisite: ARCH 300.
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3.00 Credits
This studio course concentrates on the ways in which the nature of structural systems, including long-span structures, affects and informs architectural design. Students design projects that address tectonic and structural issues. Lectures include topics such as structural systems and the tectonic language of architecture. Prerequisites: ARCH 252, ARCH 302.
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3.00 Credits
This off-campus course studies the development of the English landscape garden from the early 1700s, when its distinctive features began to emerge, to its decline in the early 19th century. The art of the landscape involved the history of ideas, of taste, of the other arts of painting, poetry and literature; these human endeavors are discussed in class and lecture conducted on site with visits to public parks and gardens in London as well as tours of the great country manor houses such as Stowe, Stourhead, and Blenheim. Prerequisites: DRAW 100, DRAW 101.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how archaeology illuminates the past through the study of material remains. It introduces students to the history, methodology, and practice of archaeology in America. Topics of inquiry include survey and excavation methods, artifact analysis, theory and interpretation, and ethics and public policy in American archaeology. Field trips to archaeological sites supplement lectures and discussions. Prerequisite: ANTH 101
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