| Fall 2011 Environmental Design Courses |
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ENV DES 1 (3) Course may be repeated for credit. Student will receive no credit for 1 after taking 4. Three hours of lecture and two hours of discussion per week. Environmental design involves the study of built, natural, global, and virtual environments. Various forms of practice include architecture, planning, urban design, and social and environmental activism. This course is a survey of relationships between people and environments, designed and non-designed, with an introduction to the literature and professional practices. Open to all undergraduate students in the College of Environmental Design as well as other colleges and majors. Extended Course Description To come. ENV DES 11A (4) Two hours of lecture and six hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: 1. Introductory studio course: theories of representation and the use of several visual means, including free hand drawing and digital media, to analyze and convey ideas regarding the environment. Topics include contour, scale, perspective, color, tone, texture, and design. Extended Course Description To come. ENV DES 11B (5) Three hours of lecture, six hours of studio, and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 11A. Introduction to design concepts and conventions of graphic representation and model building as related to the study of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and city planning. Students draw in plan, section, elevation, axonometric, and perspective and are introduced to digital media. Design projects address concepts of order, site analysis, scale, structure, rhythm, detail, culture, and landscape. Extended Course Description To come. ENV DES 101A (2-4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of laboratory per week for 10 weeks and one-half hour tutorial every other week. Prerequisites: English 1B and consent of instructor. Formerly 101. An intensive workshop for students interested in writing about architecture, landscape, and the built environment. Recognizing that undergraduate students who take this course represent departments outside as well as within the College of Environmental Design, assignments are touchstones for students of different disciplines to bring their current academic interests into play when writing about environmental design. Weekly assignments include prose readings, generally essays related to life experience. Brief readings and discussions during each class, along with weekly writing assignments of 3-5 pages of prose will illustrate the skills involved in the craft of writing. Extended Course Description
The intention of the ENV DES 101A and 101B classes is to introduce writers to the concept that the meaning of objects and built spaces are socially constructed and are emblematic of (fictional) characters in the events of a human life. There are weekly writing and reading assignments. The classes are conducted as workshops. Students' writings serve as the text for appreciation and criticism. Objectives: (1) to improve craft by recognizing the strengths of the personal voice; and (2) to develop a sensitivity to the importance of the critic as a positive voice in addressing another's work. ENV DES 101A: The writing and reading assignments are based on 3 themes considered through 15 prompts: Objects and their Context; Domestic Space and Occasion; and Urban Life and Identity. In ENV DES 101B: The Notebook : In longer compositions students create a fictional story (stories) or theme. Instruction focuses on development of characters and settings. ENV DES 105 (4) Four hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and upper division standing. Students are to have taken at least one design studio and one course on sustainable design prior to taking this course. Design problems from an ecological perspective. Design studies of relationships among ecosystem, energy, and resource flows, human social and cultural values, and technological variables as they interact to produce the built environment. ENV DES C169A (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Also listed as American Studies C112A and Geography C160A. This course introduces ways of seeing and interpreting American histories and cultures, as revealed in everyday built surroundings—homes, highways, farms, factories, stores, recreation areas, small towns, city districts, and entire regions. The course encourages students to read landscapes as records of past and present social relations, and to speculate for themselves about the meanings of material culture. Part 1: Key Patterns Inherited from Colonial Landscapes, 1600 to the 1770s; Part 2: Spatial Frameworks for National Expansion from the 1770s to the 1850s; Part 3: Landscapes Influenced by Industrial Expansion from the 1850s to the 1890s. ENV DES 195 (4) Course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: Limited to students with approved individual majors in the College of Environmental Design. Directed study leading to preparation of a senior thesis. ENV DES 201 (6) Three hours of lecture and nine hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: Students must be in the Master of Urban Design program or obtain consent of instructor. An advanced design studio involving collaborative work on problems that are large in scope yet require attention to spatial organization and design details. The course is part of the Master of Urban Design program, in which exceptional planners, architects, and landscape architects partake in an intense, focused learning experience. Complex urban design problems will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on a broad, integrated approach which will take advantage of the range of professional backgrounds that the student and faculty participants bring. The work examines both public and private development opportunities and will often focus on emerging urban design issues. ENV DES 251 (2) Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Students must be in the Master of Urban Design program or obtain consent of instructor. Introduction to the design of urban places program for the Master of Urban Design degree. Faculty resources and issues arising in current urban design practice will be covered. |
CNN 28839, 3-4 units. Credit: Environmental Design;