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3.00 Credits
Architecture often serves as a prime document and indicator of America's past and future. The theme of this course is the search for identity in American architecture in the centuries from the colonial settlements to the Civil War. The course studies both the recorded history of American architecture and the unrecorded millennium before that, to show its surprising cohesion in the face of great cultural and territorial diversity. The first part of the course particularly stresses archaeological evidence and historic preservation; throughout the course the instructor and the students will together be "reading" the buildings both for their own visual pleasures and as documents of American society.
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6.00 Credits
This course introduces a fundamental approach to architectural design. Through a continuous sequence of design projects, students will learn to develop a set of principles that inform/dictate the production of architecture. These principles will be used to clarify the interrelationship of geometry, form, and composition, thus defining a systematic strategy for an architectural solution. Additionally, various methodologies, including case study analysis, site analysis, analytical diagramming, and strategic programming, will be taught in order to further inform this solution. The design principles, in coordination with the methodologies, will allow students develop an understanding of the complex relationship between design practice and architectural discourse. Finally, a range of drawing and model-making skills will be introduced as a means of seeing, understanding and presenting. A student taking this course will earn 6 credits. The pre-requisite for this course is Design Studio 1.
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6.00 Credits
The course provides an intensive foundation in the proper techniques of working within the field of architectural conservation. Primary emphasis is on learning directly from specific buildings, structures, objects or sites as artifacts, with secondary emphasis on placing these findings within a practical preservation planning context. Connections to the broader community and to the preservation profession will be continually discovered and introduced throughout the course.
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3.00 Credits
Through extensive reading and writing, students will engage with with important texts containing themes, ideas and points of view with which well-informed preservationists—and other practitioners concerned with the built environment—should be familiar. Students will gain an understanding of preservation’s broader context of the changing built environment, the social, economic, and political forces that affect it, and tactics for bringing its history and meaning to light.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine social change through historical examinations of variations in the economy, the state, immigration, racial dynamics, and class inequality in the West. This course will cover social change in a global perspective. Major theoretical traditions and methodological strategies (both quantitative and qualitative) are explored. Other topics examined will include the development of global capitalism and the relationship between markets, the state, and civil society.
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3.00 Credits
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness. There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of England; there was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of state, preservers of loaves, and fishes that things in general were settled forever. GE: History/Euro-American
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3.00 Credits
Nineteenth-century Europe was produced by Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Nietzsche, Otto von Bismarck, and Sigmund Freud—small man, monkey man, bearded man, weird man, blood and iron man, and shrink man. These are discussed in the appropriate setting. GE: History/Euro-American
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3.00 Credits
Europe on the eve of WWI is presented to show how it was drawn into the conflict; the war is discussed and the Treaty of Versailles is closely examined to discover if later European developments were directly traceable to that treaty. England and France are studied to see why appeasement (1938) was their only solution to international pressure. The rise of fascism in Italy, Germany, and Spain and the establishment of communism in Russia are also discussed. The course ends with the outbreak of WWII. GE: History/Euro-American
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3.00 Credits
A survey of U.S. history from the Age of Discovery to the end of the Civil War. Emphasis is on the causes of the American Revolution, the political and geographic development of the nation, and the nature of the sectional and economic differences that led to the Civil War. GE: History/Euro-American
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3.00 Credits
America from Reconstruction to the present. Major topics include the development of the West, urban and industrial development, the rise of America to world power, and the development of major political and socioeconomic institutions. GE: History/Euro-American
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