Graduate Student Learning Outcomes

M.Arch Program

1. Design Creativity and Disciplinary Knowledge
   1. Students will demonstrate an understanding of architecture through a comprehensive curriculum informed by its disciplinary history and theory along with its contemporary modes of production.
   2. Students will integrate formal skills, creative formats of representation, technical expertise, and disciplinary rigor into highly resolved architectural designs at various scales.
   3. Students will produce designs informed by clear and reasoned competencies in a rigorous learning environment.
2. Critical Thinking and Active Participation
   1. Students will learn through personal experimentation as well as faculty guidance, immersed in an experimental design studio-based education.
   2. Students will develop different modes of thinking across various fields of design knowledge fostered by an open-minded and thought-provoking seminar curriculum.
   3. At the elective level, students will approach architecture in a way that is reflective, active, and innovative, and customize their education through the selection of a series of critically relevant classes offerings.
3. Approach to Technology and Making
   1. Students will develop a forward-thinking approach to technology and making aimed to develop a well-rounded future generation of architects.
   2. Students will adopt the latest technologies and their applications in favor of a creative approach to design, visualization, fabrication, construction, and problem solving.
   3. Students will create personal workflows as a way of seeing and developing critical ideas about the world they envision.
4. Communication Skills and Active Public Engagement
   1. Students will develop written and oral skills along with critical theories and visual literacy to create convincing arguments and convey an idea in front of an audience.
   2. Students will build an appreciation for leadership and teamwork towards the production of mature and comprehensive architectural design production.
   3. Students will value an architectural thinking approach to design that matters globally and locally.
5. Environmental Stewardship, Professional Responsibility, and DEI
   1. Students will learn about the impact of their work on the natural world and on public health, safety, and welfare. Students will embrace these professional responsibilities and act ethically to accomplish them.
   2. Students will value fairness, diversity, and social justice in the profession and in society, and commit to equity and inclusion in the environments they design and the policies they adopt.