Program Learning Outcomes

Students will gain core competencies in the field of architecture through a liberal arts-based curriculum.

Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of architecture through a comprehensive curriculum informed by its disciplinary history and theory along with its contemporary modes of production.

Students become analytical and critical thinkers capable of speculation combining practical and aesthetic criteria.

The program learning outcomes are premised on the thesis that contemporary urban design is a research-based practice requiring both technical knowledge and cultural understanding.

The program learning outcomes are premised on the thesis that design theory and pedagogy are manifest in society in complex and surprising ways and requires critical, technical, and institutional expertise.

The program learning outcomes are premised on the thesis that cultural production in fiction and entertainment industries requires a strong ability to develop creative content on a project basis.

The program learning outcomes are premised on the thesis that the current environment crisis requires ecologically oriented designers to develop new cultural aesthetics and new paradigms of practice across disciplines.