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USC Catalogue 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 476 Ethnographic Film Theory from an Historical Perspective

    Units: 4
    Technologies and uses of, theoretical frameworks for, and the presentation styles of ethnographic materials are examined from an historical perspective.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 480 Heritage and Power

    Units: 4
    Capstone seminar critically explores the idea of heritage and how discourses of race, ethnicity and culture elide with what is referred to as “heritage.”
    Registration Restriction: Open only to seniors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 481L GIS for Investigating the Past

    Units: 4
    Training of archaeology students in the use of GIS through the understanding of basic principles and theoretical restrictions of geospatial sciences.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g , SSCI 382L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 481
  

  • ANTH 485 Global Studies Senior Thesis Seminar

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Provides senior Global Studies majors with the practical and theoretical skills needed to write a successful undergraduate thesis in Global Studies.
    Prerequisite: ANTH 325  and ANTH 415  and ANTH 205g 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduating seniors majoring in Global Studies
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 491 Directed Research for Honors

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Individually guided research and readings culminating in the production of an honors thesis.
    Prerequisite: 3.0 GPA; ANTH 201  plus 8 units of upper-division anthropology courses.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Current literature: social change, comparative institutions, urbanization, ideology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 501 History and Foundations of Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A brief critical introduction to the history of anthropological thought over the course of the discipline’s long twentieth century, from the 1880s to the present.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 502 Contemporary Theory in Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores the emergence and transformation of modern anthropology as an empirically based, but theoretically informed, practice of knowledge production about human sociality and culture.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 503 Regional Ethnography

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An intensive analysis of the anthropology of a major culture area.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 506 Primate Behavior and Sociobiology

    Units: 4
    Advanced course on the behavior, ecology and socio - biology of living primates. Takes a Darwinian approach to behaviors such as parenting, mating, diet and feeding, competition, and demography.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 509 Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to key topics in linguistic anthropology with special focus on interrelations between language, identity, culture, gender, and power in the U.S. and beyond.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST-509
  

  • ANTH 510 Urban Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Intensive ethnographic analysis of specialized urban niches, microsettings, ethnicity, community studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 554 Women in Global Perspective

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in SWMS 554 )
  

  • ANTH 562 The Practice of Ethnography

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Major approaches to ethnographic fieldwork are explored in classic cases.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST-562
  

  • ANTH 575 Seminar in Ethnographic Film

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A survey of ethnographic film using both the dimensions of natural history descriptions and process, contrasted with naturalism and structuralism as tools of controlled comparison and analysis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 576L Anthropological Media Seminar

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    A hands-on laboratory-based survey of preproduction techniques in video and audio production, including exercises to prepare students to shoot their own documentaries.
    Recommended Preparation: visual anthropology background.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 577L Advanced Anthropological Media Seminar

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    A hands-on laboratory-based survey of post-production technologies, including editing both new and older footage. Students should be finishing their own documentaries.
    Prerequisite: ANTH 576 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 593 Practicum for Teaching in the Liberal Arts

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa, Sp
    Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines. Intended for teaching assistants in Dornsife College.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students in Anthropology
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 595 Ethnographic Postproduction

    Units: 4
    Provides supervision in developing a visual media thesis project and understanding the requirements - scholarly and technical - for producing a publication-ready work of scholarly media.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 576L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 601 Feminist Issues in Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Feminist concerns in both Western and Non-Western societies are examined in relation to globalization; the practice of ethnography and issues of power.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 602 The Anthropology of Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The relationship between anthropology and popular culture is explored through a critical examination of the category “popular culture.”
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 603 Experiments in Ethnographic Writing

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The problems of representation involved in rendering experience into narrative are examined in a number of contemporary “experiments.”
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 604 Bodies and Practices

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The cultural construction of body image, embodied practice, race, sexuality and healing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 605 Race: Performance, Politics, Cultural Production

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Focuses on the performance and social construction of race and its intersection with gender, sexuality, class, place, nation and empire.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 606 Seminar on Nationalism and Ethnicity

    Units: 4
    Cross-cultural analysis of nationalism and ethnicity from an ethnographic perspective.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 650 Seminar in Ethnography and Interpretation

    Units: 4
    A seminar where issues in contemporary ethnography and interpretation are discussed, grouped around a theme of current concern, such as power and resistance, colonialism, Marxist approaches, feminism, etc.
    Prerequisite: ANTH 501 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the doctorate. Minimum 8 units, maximum number of units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit


Arabic
  

  • ARAB 122 Arabic I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic: Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in contemporary cultural contexts.
    Duplicates Credit in former MDES 122.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARAB 152 Arabic II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Continuation of Arabic I.
    Prerequisite: ARAB 122 .
    Duplicates Credit in former MDES 152.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARAB 222 Arabic III

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic. Continued development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.
    Prerequisite: ARAB 152 .
    Duplicates Credit in former MDES 222.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARAB 252 Arabic IV

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Continuation of Arabic III. Continued development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in Modern Standard Arabic.
    Prerequisite: ARAB 222 .
    Duplicates Credit in former MDES 252.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARAB 300 Introduction to Translation

    Units: 4
    Introduces students to the fundamentals of Arabic-English translation and offers analytical, linguistic and cross-cultural factors affecting interpreting and translation.
    Prerequisite: ARAB 222  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as LING 300
  

  • ARAB 322 Advanced Arabic I

    Units: 4
    Advanced expression in written and spoken Arabic, including reading of original texts, understanding different registers, and exposure to modern Arabic cultures.
    Prerequisite: ARAB 252 .
    Duplicates Credit in former MDES 322.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARAB 333 Colloquial Arabic: Regional Dialects

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8
    Introduction to a regional Arabic dialect, focusing primarily on verbal skills.
    Prerequisite: ARAB 152  
    Recommended Preparation: ARAB 222  or ARAB 252  
    Duplicates Credit in the former MDES 333
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARAB 334 Media Arabic

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction and development of language skills encountered in print and broadcast media Arabic.
    Prerequisite: ARAB 222 .
    Duplicates Credit in former MDES 334.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARAB 352 Advanced Arabic II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Continuation of Advanced Arabic I.
    Prerequisite: ARAB 322 .
    Duplicates Credit in former MDES 352.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Archaeology
  

  • ARCG 202g Archaeology: Our Human Past

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in ANTH 202 )
  

  • ARCG 298aL Introduction to Scientific Diving

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in ENST 298a )
  

  • ARCG 298bL Introduction to Scientific Diving

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in ENST 298b )
  

  • ARCG 304 Ethics and Global Heritage

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in REL 304  )
  

  • ARCG 305L Virtual and Digital Culture, Heritage and Archaeology

    Units: 2, 4
    Max Units: 04
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    In-depth exploration of 3D digital, immersive, virtual or extended reality visualizations of cultural heritage, archaeology, historical sites and artifacts, including their legal and ethical dimensions.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ANTH 309, REL 305
  

  • ARCG 306L Maritime Archaeology Survey and Technology

    Units: 4
    Introduction to the use of remote sensing technologies for underwater archaeology, mapping and research on submerged cultural heritage remains whether ancient sites or sunken ships.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCG 307 Trojan Archaeology: Excavating USC

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ANTH 307 )
  

  • ARCG 308 Techniques and Issues in 3D Imaging and Modeling

    Units: 2
    In-depth exploration of applications, techniques and standards involved in stereoscopic imaging and photogrammetric modeling.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCG 310 Archaeology of the Americas

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    (Enroll in ANTH 310 )
  

  • ARCG 321 Greek Art and Archaeology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in AHIS 321 )
  

  • ARCG 322 Roman Art and Archaeology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in AHIS 322 )
  

  • ARCG 323p Roman Archaeology: History, Methods and Field Work

    Units: 4
    Students learn archaeological methods and practices in the city and environs of Rome.
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Duplicates Credit in AHIS 325 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCG 370gp Digs and Dispute: Religion and Archaeology in Israel

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in JS 370gp )
  

  • ARCG 376 Scientific Analysis in Archaeology

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ANTH 376 )
  

  • ARCG 377 Archaeological Interpretation of Complex Societies


    (Enroll in ANTH 377 )
  

  • ARCG 378 Jewish Magic in the Ancient World

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in JS 378 )
  

  • ARCG 400 Maya Resilience: Constructing Past and Present Identities

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    (Enroll in ANTH 400 )
  

  • ARCG 415 Object-Worlds: Histories and Theories of Things

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in AHIS 415 )
  

  • ARCG 465 Archaeology and Society

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in CLAS 465 )
  

  • ARCG 481L GIS for Investigating the Past

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ANTH 481 )
  

  • ARCG 482 Field Research in Maya Archaeology


    Max Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    (Enroll in ANTH 450 )
  

  • ARCG 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12
    Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g  or ANTH 307  or REL 494 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCG 494 Lab Methods and Theories in Archaeology

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in REL 494 )

Architecture

All courses must be taken in sequential order, a before b.
  

  • ARCH 102a Architectural Design I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to principles and processes; sequence of exercises emphasizing development of basic skills, ideas, and techniques used in the design of simplified architectural projects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 102bL Architectural Design I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to principles and processes; sequence of exercises emphasizing development of basic skills, ideas, and techniques used in the design of simplified architectural projects.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 102a  
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required, Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 105L Fundamentals of Design Communication

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Visual communication techniques applicable to the design of the built environment; drawing, photography, modeling.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 106x Workshop in Architecture

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the ways architecture is created and understood, for minors and non-majors. Hands-on discussion and laboratory session with some drawing and model building.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 114 Architecture: Culture and Community

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to the ways architecture represents aspirations of culture, satisfies practical and spiritual needs, shapes the social and urban environment, and helps preserve the planet.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 202aL Architectural Design II

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Continuing development of principles and processes; sequence of projects selected to broaden awareness of design issues at various scales in the urban context.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 102bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required, Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 202bL Architectural Design II

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Continuing development of principles and processes; sequence of projects selected to broaden awareness of design issues at various scales in the urban context.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 102bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required, Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 203 Visualizing and Experiencing the Built Environment

    Units: 4
    Methods for direct observation and recording of the directly experienced built environment through drawing, diagramming, photographing, and writing. Course includes exercises and field experience.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 205aL Building Science I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The process and communication of building design: physical building shell, systems for structure, enclosure, and space ordering.
    Prerequisite: CE 106 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 205bL Building Science I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The process and communication of building design: physical building shell, systems for structure, enclosure, and space ordering.
    Prerequisite: CE 106 .
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required, Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 207 Computer Applications in Architecture

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction for the non-programmer to the uses of the computer in architecture, including the application of existing programs and their implications for design. Overview and use of software types.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 211 Materials and Methods of Building Construction

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Basic considerations and design implications of the problem of determination of the materials and construction details and processes for buildings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 213a Building Structures and Seismic Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigation and design of elements and systems for building structures; applied mechanics, strength of materials, structural investigation as a design tool.
    Recommended Preparation: PHYS 125  and MATH 108g .
    Satisfies New General Education in F Quantitative Reasoning
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 213b Building Structures and Seismic Design

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigation and design of structure systems: their resistance to seismic and wind forces and integration with architectural design for synergy of form and structure.
    Recommended Preparation: PHYS 125  and MATH 108g .
    Satisfies New General Education in F Quantitative Reasoning
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 214ag World History of Architecture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    A world-wide perspective of architectural history as a product of social, cultural, religious, and political dimensions, 4500 BCE to 1500 CE.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category A: The Arts
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 214bg World History of Architecture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A world-wide perspective of architectural history as a product of social, cultural, religious, and political dimensions, 1500 CE to present.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category A: The Arts
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 215 Design for the Thermal and Atmospheric Environment

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Ideas, problems, and computations related to the design of buildings in response to the thermal and atmospheric environment; passive solar systems, mechanical control systems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 220 The Architect’s Sketchbook

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The architect’s sketchbook as a portable laboratory for perceiving and documenting space introduces the study of the built environment. On-site sessions develop drawing, observation, and visualization skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 302aL Architectural Design III

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Special integrative year including design issues relating to housing.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 202bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required, Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 302bL Architectural Design III

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Special integrative year including design issues relating to housing.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 202bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required, Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 303 Principles of Spatial Design I

    Units: 4
    Introduction to design principles and processes; sequence of exercises emphasizing development of basic skills, ideas, and techniques used in the creation of simplified urban space design projects.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 203 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 304x Intensive Survey: Prehistory to the Present

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An intensive historical overview of architecture from prehistory to the present, emphasizing interrelationships of various global cultures and how social considerations were translated into form.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 305aL Building Science II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The design of a building as a complex of interacting systems; relations of subsystems; influences of production and marketing on design.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 205aL , ARCH 205bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lab Required, Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 305bL Building Science II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The design of a building as a complex of interacting systems; relations of subsystems; influences of production and marketing on design.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 205aL , ARCH 205bL .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 306m Shelter

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Investigation of issues, processes, and roles of individuals, groups and communities in relation to present and future shelter needs and aspirations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 307 Digital Tools for Architecture

    Units: 3
    Exploration of digital tools with an emphasis on building information modeling (BIM), parametric modeling, and interoperability including special topics in Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) and sustainable design.
    Recommended Preparation: basic computer skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 313 Design of Building Structures

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Problems and processes of design of building structures; structural investigation for design; codes and standards; design of elements and systems of wood, steel, masonry, and concrete for gravity and lateral loads.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 213a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 314 History of Architecture: Contemporary Issues

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examination of the buildings, issues and images, the polemics and personalities that are animating current architectural discourse and practice.
    Prerequisite: ARCH 214bg .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 315 Design for the Luminous and Sonic Environment

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Ideas, problems, and computations related to the design of buildings in response to the luminous and sonic environment.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ARCH 316 Place and Culture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Study abroad programs only) Study of the relationships between places and culture through readings, lectures, discussion and weekly field trips.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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