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technical perspective drawing of and cover the major movements ARC 260 - Architectural and problem of space formation, and ARC 340 - Building Technology ARC 370 Professional Practice
the built environment along with and figures in architectural history. Interior Design History II form/function interaction are III and Ethics
isometric, oblique and axonometric The course will focus on the way characterizing in this design course.
projections. The courses also architecture provides the physical, Credit Hours: 3 Students are also expected to handle Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3
introduced basic 3D sketching spatial, and temporal frameworks Prerequisite: ARC 220 design problems related to large Prerequisite: ARC 270 Prerequisite: ENG 200
techniques using manual and digital for human interaction with nature, span single-use spaces; issues of Different advanced building This course is an introduction to
means. Communication of design culture and the built environment. This course will examine twentieth- structural systems and light weight systems & technologies and means the organization, management, and
ideas and details using nonlinear and twenty-first (21st) century material are applied. Contextual of deploying them in buildings. practice of Architecture, Landscape
multimedia presentation tools will be ARC 230 - Building Technology I architecture and its origins. Through design elements of site, topography, Emphasis on prefabrication, modular architecture Interior Design as a
introduced. Educational enrichment Credit Hour: 3 slide lectures, readings, and class climate, and traditional architecture coordination, mechanization, super business and profession. Emphasis
activities in this course will include discussions. The course will focus on are identified. Their influence on the structures, and long spans: concrete, is placed on the range of services
field-trips to project exhibits as well Prerequisite: DES 110 issues concerning style, technology, conceptual design solution(s) are steel, and wood. The building provided, professional ethics,
as art museums and architectural An overview of basic concepts and urbanism, regionalism, function, analyzed. envelope, cladding, curtain walls. business management, marketing,
offices. properties of building structural and reform to address the diverse ARC 320 - Environmental Design An overview of basic concepts and contracts and negotiations, design
forces that have shaped modern
components and their materials.The properties of different systems. cost analysis/control, and other
DES 130 - Design Foundations course discusses elements and types architecture. I: Lighting and Acoustics aspects of professional practice.
of superstructure, substructure, ARC 270 - Building Technology II ARC 350 - Architectural Design The course introduces the students
Credit Hour: 3 and foundations. It covers linear Credit Hours: 3 IV to effective techniques for resume
Prerequisite: DES 100 and planner, vertical and horizontal, Credit Hours: 3 Prerequisite: ARC 210 writing, letters of introduction,
structural systems and their Prerequisite: ARC 230 This course is a comprehensive Credit Hours: 6 portfolio preparation, and job
A series of studio exercises to members such as short–medium overview of the luminous and sonic Prerequisite: ARC 310
develop an understanding of the span roofing, flooring, walls, columns, The course provides an insight of environment with consideration to This design studio introduces interview techniques.
use of a model for structuring girders, and beams. materials, and detailing of walls, energy conscious design. Content architectural design as a multi- ARC 399A Internship
design information, fundamentals floors, false ceilings, doors and includes human physiological and faceted problem-solving effort. It
of programming, research, ARC 240 Architecture and the windows. Also special attention to psychological perceptions of light focuses on to different aspects of the Credit Hours: 1.5
communication skills and the design Environ- ment wood systems and carpentry and in the built environment, natural design process such as site analysis/ Prerequisite: 90 credit hours
process. This course is designed means of vertical circulation (stairs, and electric light sources, day selection, environmental/ climatic ARC 399B Internship
to introduce the students to the Credit Hour: 3 elevators and escalators). lighting design techniques, lighting impacts, culture, and tradition.
basic elements of design including Prerequisite: No Prerequisite ARC 280 - Computer Aided measurements and controls, light Problem-solving techniques are Credit Hours: 1.5
vocabulary, configuration, form and Design and form, computations for quantity applied in terms of configuration and Prerequisite: ARC 399A
order. This course is an introductory
course on the interaction between and quality light, and the use of manipulation circulation paths, space This course focuses on getting the
ARC 210 - Architectural Design I buildings and their environment. Credit Hours: 3 illuminated models for day lighting interaction, structural system, and student practically involved in the
The course uses examples Prerequisite: DES 110 and electric lighting design, the base building form. (e.g. small museum, day-to-day business events in a
Credit Hour: 4 of vernacular architecture as principles of acoustics impacting bank, library, recreational facilities). relevant, modern and automated
Prerequisite: DES 120 + DES 130 examples of architecture adapted This course serves as an introduction room acoustics, mechanical system organization. The student will follow a
to various electronic media
Elements and principles of to its environment. It explores the employed within the practice of noise, sound absorptio and isolation, ARC 360 - Urban Planning well-planned course of action during
architectural design; form, space/ influences of local materials, human architecture and interior design. and the basic principles of electrical Credit Hours: 3 the period of training. The plan
volume, and function and their comfort, climate and culture on Creative and effective skills in the systems. Prerequisite: ARC 210 will be devised jointly by the site-
interrelationships, it will also address building forms. The course discusses use of computers in architecture ARC 330 - Structure for supervisor and college- supervisor.
basic design requirements through passive heating, cooling, ventilation, and interior design applications are Architects I This course introduces the evolution The course is intended to be a
a small-scale project(s) (e.g. single shading and daylighting strategies in consistently stressed. of city form and structure and breakthrough experience in exposing
family house, studio). Educational different climatic zones. Credit Hours: 3 the development of order and student to the organizational work
enrichment activities in this course ARC 250 - Architectural Design II ARC 310 - Architectural Design Prerequisite: ARC 270 organization in the city. Theories culture and the nature of business
will include invited professionals for III of planning at different levels are complexities.
the jury and famous local architects Credit Hours: 4 An introduction to main concepts of discussed and different models to the ARC 410 - Architectural Design
as guest speakers. Prerequisite: ARC 210 Credit Hours: 6 structures and structural members. planning process are introduced. The V
The course introduces different kinds
Prerequisite: ARC 250
course alsoexplores social, cultural,
ARC 220 - Architectural History I Simple and single use architectural of structural systems. It discusses economic and environmental aspects Credit Hours: 6
project (s); aspects of spatial Issues concerning manipulation of the structural analysis of simple of planning, planning management Prerequisite: ARC 350
Credit Hour: 3 arrangements, site, climate and space/volume and building form structures. and implementation.
Prerequisite: ENG 200 traditions are to be examined. are explored, with special emphasis Manipulation of a complex
on alternative spatial organization
This course is a historical and (e.g. kindergarten, small clinic, art of space (centralized, linear, radial, multi- use/mix-used project(s),
conceptual survey of architecture workshop). and clustered). Design process, and experimentation with the
from prehistory to Medieval. The conceptualization, and creativity vocabulary of architectural form,
course will address questions of style are practiced by students. The space,and order. Aspects of the inter-

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