Emphasis is placed on technical training, allowing students to develop a broad understanding of the concepts and methods for the planning and design of buildings, landscapes, and cities. Students will acquire skills in sketching, drafting, model-making, and digital rendering, alongside problem-solving, critical analysis and careful observation of the global built environment. 

Students are trained in the techniques of close-looking, visual description and interpretation, and critical analysis that are necessary to locate the work of art in history. In addition to exposure to a wide array of social, intellectual, material, and technical forces within the art world, courses will interrogate the diverse histories of art-making and the embodied labor of artists throughout history.

History of Art & Arch. Course Requirements

5 Lecture Courses numbered HIAA 0001 - 0999, engaging at least three different geographic regions and two different time periods (5)

3 Seminars numbered HIAA 1000 - 1931 (3)

1 Pathway Elective (1)

1 Capstone Course (1)

10 Total Credits

Architecture Course Requirements

Note: The architecture concentration is open for concentrators, currently enrolled interested students, and prospective concentrators admitted to the University in Fall 2024. Starting in Fall 2025, the department will no longer offer this concentration as an option for incoming first-year students.

1 Introduction to Design Studio (1)

2 Practice Courses (2)

1 Double-Credit Design Studio (2)

4 History of Art & Architecture lecture courses bearing the A designation (4)

1 Pathway Elective in Sciences (1)

1 Pathway Elective in Social Sciences/Humanities (1)

1 Capstone Course (1)

12 Total Credits