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ENV DES 1
PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AL/TURELI

(3) Student will receive no credit for 1 after taking 4. Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Environmental awareness and environmental design. Survey of relationships between people and environments, designed, and non-designed. Emphasis on activism and sustainability. Interpretations of architecture, landscapes and urban planning, and introduction to their literature and professional practices. 

ENV DES 11A
INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL REPRESENTATION AND DRAWING
SLUSKY/SULLIVAN

(4) Three hours of lecture and twelve hours of studio per week. Prerequisites: 1 or 4. Introductory studio course: theories of representation and the use of several visual means, including free hand drawing, to analyze and convey ideas regarding the environment. Contour, scale, perspective, color, tone, texture, and design. 

Extended Course Description

Objectives of the course are the development of skill and confidence in the use of freehand drawing and related forms of representation as a means of understanding and describing the environment. The course is an introduction to freehand drawing, perspective, and design, with particular emphasis on the use of visual means for investigating the environment. Teaching methods consist of lectures, studio projects, discussion sections, group critiques of student work. 

ENV DES 11B
INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN
PLYMALE

(4) Three hours of lecture, six hours of studio, and one hour of seminar 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. Drawing in plan, section, elevation, axonometric, and perspective. Design projects addressing concepts of order, site analysis, scale, structure, rhythm, detail, culture, and landscape. 

ENV DES 100
THE CITY: THEORIES & METHODS IN URBAN STUDIES
ROY

(4) Three hours of lecture, one hour of discussion, and three to four hours of reading, analysis, and research per week. This course is concerned with the study of cities. Focusing on great cities around the world - from Chicago to Los Angeles, from Rio to Shanghai, from Vienna to Cairo it covers of historical and contemporary patterns of urbanization and urbanism. Through these case studies, it introduces the key ideas, debates, and research genres of the interdisciplinary field of urban studies. In other words, this is simultaneously a "great cities" and "great theories" course. Its purpose is to train students in critical analysis of the socio-spatial formations of their lived world. 

Extended Course Description

This course is an advanced-level introduction to the interdisciplinary domain of urban studies. It is open to students, undergraduate and graduate, in all departments and has no prerequisites. However, it is an intense course with a heavy reading load and assignments that require critical analysis.

The course has three objectives. First, it familiarizes students with the study of cities as pursued in various social science disciplines such as sociology, geography, and anthropology. In this sense, it is a “classics” course providing coverage of key texts, theories, and methodologies in urban studies.

Second, it introduces students to real cities. Organized around compelling case-studies, it is also a “great cities” course. While mainstream urban studies is primarily focused on EuroAmerican cities, this course expands the repertoire by studying cities of the developing world. Not only is the urban future of the new millennium located in the global South, but also some of the most interesting critical theories of our time are emerging from this context. The class thus encourages students to know and study the “canon” of urban theory but to also disrupt, dislocate, and displace this canon by giving serious thought to new geographies of knowledge.

Third, the course provides a historical perspective on urbanization. From medieval cities like Bruges and Baghdad to 19th century modernization in cities like Vienna and Cairo to contemporary debates about postmodern Las Vegas, the course examines various moments of urbanism. Quite deliberately, the course material is organized not as linear history but rather as themes that indicate continuities and congruences between cities of different time-periods and locations.

Each week introduces students to a city or set of cities, a theoretical framework, and related methodologies.

Course requirements include weekly readings, attendance of weekly discussion sections, a midterm and final examination, and an analytical paper.

ENV DES 101B
WRITING ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN: LONGER COMPOSITIONS
LIFCHEZ

(2–4) Course may be repeated once for credit. Three hours of laboratory per week and one-half hour tutorial every other week. Prerequisites: English 1B and consent of instructor. Formerly 101. This course may serve as an addendum to 101A: Short Compositions. Students will write the longer composition within a support group which is both critical and encouraging of the individual effort. Topics are individually chosen but refined in concert with the instructor to ensure that the student's objectives can be satisfied within the semester. 

Extended Course Description

DESIGN WITH LANGUAGE: THE NOTEBOOK CLASS

Qualified for English Department credit.

The Notebook, Journal, and Diary are various terms for the personal account kept by artists, authors, or architects as a first step toward producing a work of artistic merit. The Notebook emerges over time through regular and disciplined writing about a subject of interest. Typically, illustrations highlight and augment the text.

ED 101 B is conducted as a writing seminar. The principal objective is to compose a narrative about a subject chosen by each student, which is written in weekly installments over the length of the semester. These installments are linked through promising ideas that emerge from what is written and the responses they provoke. Students’ writings are the principal basis for discussion. ED 101B students will also read selections of prose and poetry and of professional literature for class discussions and as models by which to improve writing abilities.

Photographs (of any origin) are used by each student to augment the weekly installments. These images add further expression to the text.

Selected Notebooks of past years may be seen in the CED Library, Rare Books (by permission of the library staff)

Enrollment by permission/ Sign on TeleBears Waitlist  

ENV DES C169B
AMERICAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPES, 1900 TO PRESENT
GROTH

(4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. 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 regions. Encourages students to read landscapes as records of past and present social relations, and to speculate for themselves about cultural meaning. Also listed as American Studies C112B and Geography C160B. 

ENV DES 195
SENIOR THESIS
LIFCHEZ

(4) Enrolled students are required or have elected to write an undergraduate thesis. The objective of the course is to assist with this process by defining a topic and constructing a research agenda by which the topic is explored and developed as prose. Directed study leading to preparation of a senior thesis. 

ENV DES 252
URBAN PLACE STUDIES
SOUTHWORTH

(3) Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Students must be in the Master of Urban Design program or obtain consent of instructor. Seminar focuses on individual urban design interests, the design and research work that students are pursuing in other courses, and development of thesis or final design projects.