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ENV DES 1
PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
DE MONCHAUX

(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

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ENV DES R3B
READING & COMPOSITION SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
WESSEL

Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: UC Entry Writing Requirement or UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam. R1A or equivalent course is prerequisite to R1B. Course may be repeated for credit. This course will expose students to key literature that examines, primarily, the relationship between sustainability and environmental design disciplines. Our goal will be not only to investigate the central ideas that inform the design of sustainable landscapes, cities, and buildings, but also to understand how competing arguments are presented in writing.

Extended Course Description

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ENV DES 11A
INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL REPRESENTATION AND DRAWING
SULLIVAN

(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

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ENV DES 11B
INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN
PLYMALE

(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

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ENV DES 98
DIRECTED GROUP STUDY
BOURDIER

(1-4) Course may be repeated for credit. One hour of group study per week per unit. Prerequisites: Restricted to 1st and 2nd year students. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Grading option: Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. This is a special topics course intended to fulfill the individual interests of students, and provide a vehicle for professors to instruct students based on new and innovative developments in the field of environmental design.

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

(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

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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.

Extended Course Description

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ENV DES 170
THE SOCIAL ART OF ARCHITECTURE
LIFCHEZ

(3) Course may be repeated by students working on thesis or dissertation. Two hours of seminar per week. What is the social art of architecture in America? What was it historically, where is it now, where is it going--and why should you care? In this course, we will explore contemporary and historic attempts to confront social needs through themes: Design by Professionals (Architects, City Planners, Urban Designers, Sociologists, Philosophers, Philanthropists), and Design by Laypeople (Squatters, Intentional Communities, Do It Yourself). The objective is to discharge the false dualism that has emerged in architecture between social concerns and creative design.

Extended Course Description

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ENV DES 198
DIRECTED GROUP STUDY
CRYSLER

(1-4) Course may be repeated for credit. One hour of group study per week per unit. Prerequisites: Restricted to 3rd and 4th year students. Grading option: Must be taken on a passed/not passed basis. This is a special topics course intended to fulfill the individual interests of students, and provide a vehicle for professors to instruct students based on new and innovative developments in the field of environmental design

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.

Extended Course Description

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