Minor Environmental Design in Developing Countries Print

The Environmental Design in Developing Countries minor serves students majoring in humanities, social sciences, and a variety of professional fields. The minor is intended to expose students to basic problems, cultural contexts, policy alternatives and design solutions in the Third World. Students must take five courses in this minor to satisfy the requirements, with a minimum of two courses from each of lists 1 and 2. The minor is open to all majors at UC Berkeley.

Faculty Advisor: Nezar AlSayyad, 345 Wurster Hall

Prerequisites

1. For CED majors, one course from the following:

  • ENV DES 1 (3)
  • ENV DES 4 (3)
  • ARCH 170A (4)
  • ARCH 170B (4)
     

For non-CED majors, one course from the following:

  • ENV DES 1 (3)
  • ENV DES 4 (3)
  • ARCH 170A (4)
  • ANTHRO 3 (4)
  • EPS 1 (4)
  • ECON 1 (4)
  • SOCIOL 1 (4)
     

Required Courses

2-6. Five courses from the following (with a minimum of two courses from each area):

List 1: CED Offerings

  • CY PLAN 111 (3)* Intro to Housing: An International Survey (also offered as ARCH 111)
  • CY PLAN 115 (3)* Urbanization in Developing Countries
  • ARCH 101 (5) Case Studies in Architectural Design:
    Design in Non-Western Cultures (or equivalent ARCH 201)
  • ARCH 175B (3) Islamic Architecture (formerly ARCH 175D)
  • ARCH 179X (1-4) Seminar in Architectural History:
    Vernacular and Contemporary Architecture in Non-Western Cultures (or equivalent ARCH 279X)
  • ARCH 129X (1-4) Seminar in the Practice of Design (when on developing countries or equivalent ARCH 219A, Design in Developing Countries)
     

List 2: University Offerings - Specialized Area Studies

  • ANTHRO 141 (4) Comparative Society ANTHRO 170-188 (4) All Area Studies Courses
  • DEV STD 100 History of Dev. and Underdevelopment
  • ESPM 155 Sociology of Natural Resources
  • GEOG 104 (4) The City and the Third World
  • GEOG C107 (4) Geography of Religions
  • GEOG 156 (4) Political Econ & Hist. Geog. of Latin Amer. Dev.
  • GEOG 158 (4) The Carribbean Region
  • GEOG 163 (4) Southeast Asia
  • GEOG 165 (4) Africa: Ecology and Development
  • GEOG 167 (4) The Middle East
  • HISTORY 111A-C (4) Topics in the History of Southeast Asia
  • HISTORY 112B (4) Modern Africa
  • HISTORY 113A-B (4) History of Korea
  • HISTORY 114A (4) Early Modern India
  • HISTORY 114B (4) Modern South Asia
  • HISTORY 116B (4) China: the middle period
  • HISTORY 116C (4) Modern China
  • HISTORY 140A-B (4) History of Mexico
  • HISTORY 141B (4) Latin Amer.: Rise of Export, Econ-Social Imp.
  • HISTORY 143 (4) History of Brazil
  • POL SCI 141C (4) Politics and Gov in Eastern Europe
  • POL SCI 142B (4) Middle East Politics
  • POL SCI 143A-B (4) Northeast Asian Politics
  • POL SCI 144A (4) Rapid Growth in East Asia
  • POL SCI 144B (4) Politics of Divided Korea
  • POL SCI 145B (4) South Asian Politics
  • POL SCI 146B (4) African Politics
  • POL SCI 146C (4) Conflict and Change in South Africa
  • POL SCI 148A (4) Latin American Politics
     

* Urban Studies majors may not choose these classes for the minor.

Graduate courses in related subjects to those on these lists may be used as substitutes if approved by the faculty advisor.