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1.00 Credits
This course covers the use of various software packages in the development of on-screen and hard-copy presentations. Topics include presentation design, importing graphics, output strategies, and communications techniques. LEC
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1.00 Credits
This course focuses on the use of electronic data communications in operating a design organization. Topics include use of the Internet, electronic research, telecommunication technologies and remote access. LEC
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1.00 Credits
This course focuses on the development of graphic images. Students are taught to generate vector-based graphics and bit-mapped images that can be incorporated into various software packages. LEC
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3.00 Credits
The application of Information Technology to Facility Management has changed a formerly basement operation into a center of corporate support. In this course, we explore the use of Computer Aided Facility Management (CAFM) software and its application to real world facility management. LEC
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1.00 Credits
The main objective of this course is to introduce and inform the student of the processes involved in construction estimating. This course will focus on commercial construction and the fundamentals of estimating a commercial project. This course will acquaint the student with quantity surveying, costing methods, types of estimates, estimating software, the construction estimating process, and estimating the various parts of a project. LEC
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1.00 Credits
The main objective of this course is to introduce and inform the student of the processes involved in construction project management. This course will focus on commercial construction and the fundamentals of managing a commercial project. The course will acquaint the student with transferring a project from the estimating stage to actual construction, the buyout process, contracts, purchase orders, responsibilities of project managers, responsibilities of superintendents, planning and scheduling, management of changes in a project, financial reporting, accounting processes, payment procedures, and the close-out process in construction. LEC
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to be a broad course introducing basis concepts of sustainable design. It will introduce broad outlines of many of the crucial issues facing us in the next few decades. This course identifies how we can re-imagine the relationship between human beings and living systems. The order of the course will begin at a broad overview of our environmental dilemma, then focus upon community issues and end with a close look at green buildings and their systems. This course will include a series of lectures, required reading with written responses, visits to local examples of sustainable buildings and the development of research projects. LEC
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how a neighborhood is sustainable, or is not. Imbedded in our built landscape are constructs, which once revealed, offer us insight into a community's values and underlying intentions. We will engage neighborhoods in Lawrence, Kansas, and other community neighborhoods. This seminar course will provide a format for discussion and testing observations of patterns in neighborhoods. Our intent will be to describe the detailed patterns for neighborhoods, houses, and gardens, thereby increasing an understanding of how people inform and are informed by their neighborhoods. This course will include a series of lectures, required reading with written responses, visits to a variety of neighborhoods and the development of research projects. LEC
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
May be repeated up to a maximum of 9 credits. Students participate in a study abroad program approved by the Architecture Chair. Students will be evaluated upon a submitted journal, sketchbook, or equivalent assignments assigned by the instructor. IND
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6.00 Credits
Based upon the student's approved proposal, each student will explore the process of creating the built environment by working in a setting that is intended to provide a new perspective for that student. The range of venues may include non-profit organizations, research settings, hands -on building experiences, and other professional settings as approved by the instructor. Students evaluation will include an assessment by the supervisor in the practicum settings as well as on a final paper using appropriate graphics to illustrate key points. Graded on a satisfactory/fail basis. IND
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