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ARCH 5361 - Advanced Architectural Detailing
An exploration of the life of details in building. Examines the ways in which technical decisions are made, and focuses on details and constructions within particular regional contexts.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5370 - Depth of Surface
Construction systems and material selection must be a generative process not a reactive application. What are the possibilities for the Depth of Surface to exploit the tension between internal criteria and external forces & context? The fundamental issues of buildability must be driven by a sense of ‘what do you want to see?’ as well as the pragmatic - with the detail reinforcing, not diluting, the whole. How can overall composition, form, performance and structure of building envelope come together (via detail) within a specific conceptual context?
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5380 - Soft Surface Operation
We will explore the parameters of shaping the flow of light, wind, and water; then test these discoveries through full-scale mock-ups, exploring practical potentials as well as the experiential aspects of weather phenomena and surface performance. Working with a set of high performance fabrics, it will be possible to produce operable, interactive, beautiful surfaces that create comfortable semi-exterior conditions year-round.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5400 - Experimental Technologies
Covering theory to practice, the course is an introduction to the use of digital technologies for the analysis, simulation and visualization of space, time and processes on cultural sites. The course focuses on the use of computer technologies for the visualization, exploration and analysis of natural and built environments (broad enough to include issues and methodologies of interest to architects, landscape architects, archaeologists and architectural historians). Topics are explored through class lectures on the theory and application of computational/visualization technology, guest lectures, example projects, field trips to project site and exercises examining emergent issues.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5420 - Digital Animation & Storytelling
An exploration of moviemaking through exercises in computer animation. Approximately five independently developed short animations constitute the work of the semester, culminating in a one- to five-minute long final movie project. It is anticipated that an interdisciplinary group of students admitted to the seminar will bring perspectives from across the visual and design arts. Movie projects may range in creative subject areas. Built and landscape architectural places may be experienced according to our own changing eye point of view, the transformation of light and objects, as well as the movement of other people. Story telling, whether by means of simple character animation or more complex scene description, may related to these contextual aspects of either real or imagined environments. This subject is more exclusively focused than ARCH 5450 on animation as a means to creative moviemaking. Prerequisite: ARCH 3410/6410 or Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5422 - Computer Animation: Design in Motion
Arch 5422 is a hands-on workshop in moviemaking by techniques in three-dimensional computer animation with composite video, sound editing and capture. We screen independent and feature film animation and ongoing student work concluding in a 1 to 5 min. final project. Short readings are in film and cognitive science. Students may enroll from diverse areas such as design, art, drama, computer science, the physical sciences, and education.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5450 - Digital Moviemaking & Animation
Visual storytelling is the basis for making movies in this hands-on production oriented class. The technology of both computer graphics animation and digital video production are explored. Themes may incorporate short character studies or visual narratives related to the built and natural environment, such as its observable symbols and images, the process of physical and conceptual assembly, transformations of light and form, spatial or formal composition, the movement of people and objects, and similar phenomena that vary over time. Students have the option to use either computer graphics animation or video production. The links between perception, representation, and design are examined within both a historical and a contemporary critical framework. Prerequisite: ARCH 3410/6410 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5470 - Information Space
We live in a world rich with information. This course concentrates on the identity and role of information in our environs: in the buildings and cities that we inhabit and in the evolving networks and World Wide Web that are increasingly a part of our daily lives. The course looks practically and theoretically at how we build information, why, and how we use and populate it in our world. In both the physical and digital realms we study language, graphics, and urban form as `Information Space`, and look for ways to build new architectures that use information well. The course uses web design technology as a vehicle to explore these themes.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5490 - CNC Fabrication
This is a seminar about computation and the physical making of architecture. The course centers on student research into computer-controlled modeling and fabrication through hands-on use of CNC machines and advanced CAD technologies. The course focuses on the making of objects, parts, and systems at real-world, real-material scales and on the invention of strategies that link geometric form and computation with fabrication and material processing.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5500 - Special Topics in Architecture
Topical offerings in architecture.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ARCH 5501 - Special Topics in Architecture
Topical offerings in architecture.
Credits: 0
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ARCH 5510 - J-Term Courses
J Term Courses
Credits: 1 to 3
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ARCH 5590 - Faculty Research Seminar
Affords students opportunities to participate in specific faculty’s advance research projects.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ARCH 5608 - China Design Workshop
The course will combine field analysis, precedent study, and collaborative design proposals into contemporary Chinese architecture and urban form. Focused readings will supplement the design investigation.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5620 - Robotic Ecologies
The seminar will explore recent advances in the interdisciplinary fields of architecture, landscape and urbanism, where design research has intersected with the advanced sciences to produce entirely new modes of thinking, designing and building. We will explore the promise of robotics to productively intermesh and interact with the complex ecologies of our physical environment.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5630 - Design of Cities
Cities are physical artifacts that are experienced psychologically and socially. This course investigates the theories surrounding these processes to reach an understanding of humanistic urban design intentions. Experiential realities are explored through case studies, readings, and mapping exercises.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5640 - Adv. Town Design
This course will investigate the generic principles and strategies that shape the form and character of towns and discuss influential towns that over the past several generations have, at least to their advocates, represented ‘good’ planning and design. While recognizing the importance of social and economic factors, the course will emphasize the physical, visual, and experiential qualities of towns.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5660 - Design and Leadership
The aim of this course is to give students a fundamental and practical understanding of leadership and the role that design plays in exercising leadership and mobilizing the resources of a group. This is a course designed for students currently being educated in the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. The purpose is to increase significantly one’s individual capacity to sustain the demands of leadership and to strengthen considerably one’s individual ability to exercise both leadership and authority within in the larger arena of public life.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5680 - Lessons of the City
This course explores the relationship between cultural values and urban form, introducing students to a body of literature and projects examining the various historical, social, political, regulatory, economic and physical conditions, which influence the design of cities. Through lecture, selected reading, class discussion, individual and group projects, and field trips this class examines the history, theories, and practices that have influenced the development of cities from antiquity to the present. Much of the discussion is on the evolution of the American city; using a field trips as a means to explore first hand urban environments
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5700 - InfoLab: Laboratory for Visualizing Information
The design process has become an essential filter of all types of information. Due to contemporary forms of communication and media, this process has now been charged with the task of gathering, filtering, comprehending, processing, interpreting, forming and representing information in a clear and coherent manner. This laboratory seeks to introduce its participants to various modes of forming and representing information, qualifying, quantifying and visualizing it with the ultimate goal of familiarizing themselves with contemporary representational techniques and creating new visualization tools.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5710 - Photography and Digital Media
This course seeks to give students the ability to conceive and create digital photographic imagery with control and sophistication. Topics include fundamentals of photography, color theory, digital control of visual qualities, and methods of image montage for both still images and short animations. Methods include production and presentation for both printed hard copy and for the World Wide Web.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5750 - Drawing and Composition
This course covers the fundamentals of drawing with a focus on the human figure. The assignments address line, tone, volume, space, scale, proportion and artistic expression. The analysis of human form (inside and out) is applied to rendering buildings, interiors, still life and landscapes.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5760 - Drawing and Sketching
This course will cover the fundamentals of drawing with a focus on the human figure. It will address line, tone volume, space, scale, proportion and artistic expression. The analysis of human form will also be applied to rendering still-life, buildings, interiors and landscapes. Various wet and dry media will be introduced to illustrate the drawing objectives. An emphasis on ‘process’ will direct the momentum of this course.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5770 - Drawings and Collages
In this course we make collages, drawings, and mixed media projects. Rather than distinguishing collage and drawing as separate categories, we explore their exciting in-between territory. We make plane (and plain) images: configurations of relatively stable, still marks on two-dimensional surfaces. We use traditional drawing methods (graphite, colored pencil or ink on paper) as well as more unusual tools and materials (sidewalk chalk, earth, trash, recycled materials). Through brief weekly readings and discussions we explore the relationship between aesthetics and ethics’between “good forms” and forms that in some way contribute or allude to the “common good.”
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5780 - Painting and Public Art
In this course we make paintings and mixed media projects. We stress the process rather then the artistic product and, like artist Sol LeWitt, define painting ‘as an activity on a flat plane.’ We make plane (and plain) images: configurations of relatively stable, still marks on two-dimensional surfaces. We use traditional methods (watercolor or ink on paper, acrylics on canvas) as well as more unusual tools and materials (sidewalk chalk, earth, trash, recycled materials). Through weekly readings and discussions we explore the relationship between aesthetics and ethics’between ‘good forms’ and forms that in some way contribute or allude to the ‘common good.’
Credits: 3
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ARCH 5800 - Vicenza Program
Summer study abroad in Vicenza, Italy. Students will be introduced to Italian culture through the study of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. Both the formal ideals as well as the constructed reality of these three subjects will be studied through critical observation and documentation of universal conditions and critical junctures.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 5993 - Independent Study
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor
Credits: 1 to 6
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ARCH 6010 - Foundation Studio I
Introductory design problems in architecture for First Professional degree students. Emphasizes developing a systemic approach to design on the land and in the city through experience with a constructional kit of parts and an awareness of the role of architectural theory and history in the design process. The faculty reviews all work in ARCH 601-602 to determine the progress and potential of each student.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 6020 - Foundation Studio II
Introductory design problems in architecture for First Professional degree students. Emphasizes developing a systemic approach to design on the land and in the city through experience with a constructional kit of parts and an awareness of the role of architectural theory and history in the design process. The faculty reviews all work in ARCH 6010-6020 to determine the progress and potential of each student. Prerequisite: ARCH 6010.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 6120 - Architectural Theory and Analysis
Investigates the role that ideas play in the conception, making, and interpretation of buildings and cities, and assists students in clarifying their own values and intentions as designers. Lectures cover a broad range of topics, with special emphasis placed on contemporary issues.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 6140 - Architectural Analysis: Key Buildings of Modernism
Investigates the link between ideas and forms of significant buildings in the canon of modern architecture.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 6230 - Building and Climate
This course examines the role of design in mediating between dynamic climatic forces such as wind, energy and light and the human response to the environment. Weaving discussions of fundamental principles with case studies and illustrative exercises, the course focuses on the design of the boundary between the internal and external environments.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 6231 - Building Integration Workshop 1
For first year students in the first professional MArch program (Path A). This course is part one of a year-long workshop and discussion seminar focused on dynamic site systems, bioclimatic and passive design, construction assembly methods and building materials. Students are required to sit in on the lectures of ARCH 6232.
Credits: 4
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ARCH 6232 - Systems, Sites & Building
Examines the role of design in mediating between dynamic climatic forces such as wind, energy and light and the human response to the environment. Weaving discussions of fundamental principles with case studies and illustrative exercises, the course focuses on the design of the boundary between the internal and external environments.
Credits: 4
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ARCH 6240 - Introduction to Structural Design
A first course in structures for undergraduate or graduate students with degrees in other disciplines. Develops analytic and critical skills through both mathematical and visual investigation of structures. Topics include static; mechanics of materials; computer-based structural analysis; and the design and behavior of basic structural elements and systems. Prerequisite: College-level physics.
Credits: 4
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ARCH 6260 - Adv. Building Matters
Explores and evaluates the properties of basic building materials and construction assemblies. Introduces building construction from a variety of viewpoints, with emphasis on ecological thinking in architectural decision-making. Students will analyze and critique materials and construction systems, and how they correspond to aesthetic, technical, financial and ethical issues.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 6261 - Building Integration Workshop 2
For first year students in the first professional MArch program (Path A). This course is part two of a year-long workshop and discussion seminar focused on dynamic site systems, bioclimatic and passive design, construction assembly methods and building materials. Students are required to sit in on the lectures of Building Matters.
Credits: 4
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ARCH 6410 - Advanced CAAD 3D Modeling & Visualization
A comprehensive course in three-dimensional computer aided design and visualization methods used in architecture and landscape architecture. The class explores design worlds that are made accessible through computer-based media. Lectures provide a theoretical framework for computer-aided design, describe current methods, and speculate on advanced methods.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 6500 - Special Topics in Architecture
Topical offerings in architecture.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ARCH 7010 - Foundation Studio III
Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing analysis and synthesis of complex contextual, cultural, and constructional issues. Prerequisite: ARCH 6020 or chair permission.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 7120 - Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
Credits: 3
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ARCH 7210 - Structural Design for Dynamic Loads
Examines wind and earthquake loads in structural design, reviewing the vocabulary of lateral resisting systems, and the basic dynamic theories that underlie building code requirements. Explores recent developments in research and practice. Student projects include reviewing and presenting literature on lateral load research and design.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 7230 - Design Development
Design Development is run as a laboratory design session twice a week for two hours. Formal and experiential design intentions are balanced with principal issues of comfort, life safety, structural stability, etc. in the resolution of a constrained design problem. The systems that shape the building are addressed at the scale of the urban block down to constructions at the scale of the hand but are made evident primarily at the scale of the building and the scale of the room.
Credits: 4
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ARCH 7250 - Environmental Systems and Lighting
Study of the fundamental principles applied to the design of thermal and luminous environments as well as plumbing/drainage and electrical systems. A studio project is selected for additional analysis and design development focusing on the energy-conscious building envelope, mechanical systems selection, natural and artificial lighting schemes, and the building services layout.
Credits: 4
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ARCH 7500 - Special Topics in Architecture
Topical offerings in architecture.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ARCH 7993 - Independent Study
Independent Study Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ARCH 8010 - Comprehensive Studio
Design studies of selected architectural problems through extensive site analysis and strategic constructional rigor. Prerequisite: ALAR 7020.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 8230 - Building Synthesis
Building design is a multi disciplinary collaboration; an architect (now more than ever) needs to be aware of processes and technologies that will impact the visual perception and experience of a building. This course investigates, develops and applies environmental and design strategies at various scales of operation through the concurrent ARCH 801 studio design project. What are the important criteria for a building envelope that is to meet environmental expectations and requirements in the Twenty-First-Century? 15-20% of a building’s energy consumption might be attributed to building envelope - given this, small shifts in strategy have the potential to make a considerable ‘sustainable’ contribution!
Credits: 3
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ARCH 8300 - Preservation/ Adaptive Use
Individual study directed by a faculty member.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ARCH 8480 - Professional Ethics and Communication
Introduces the primary issues involved in the practice of architecture: professional ethics, business practices, project process and management, personnel management, management of the process of producing a building, and the methods available to do so.
Credits: 4
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ARCH 8481 - Professional Ethics Seminar
This course introduces students to standards for the set of documents used in architectural project construction.
Credits: 1
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ARCH 8500 - Special Topics in Architecture
Topical offerings in architecture.
Credits: 1 to 6
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ARCH 8800 - Teaching Experience
Teaching Experience Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 8993 - Advanced Independent Research
Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ARCH 8999 - Non-Topical Research, Masters
Advanced independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Credits: 1 to 12
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ALAR 5010 - Introduction to Design
The Summer Design Institute prepares graduate students admitted to the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture Programs for rigorous professional study in these design disciplines. Three courses comprise the full time course of study over a two month period during the University of Virginia’s Summer Session. Introduction to design concepts from the scale of the city to the body, developing an understanding of design process and compositional strategies in architecture and landscape architecture. Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Architecture or Master of Landscape Architecture Program - required for entry into the three year course of professional study unless waived by the Department Chair.
Credits: 1
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ALAR 5020 - Introduction to Design Graphics
The Summer Design Institute prepares graduate students admitted to the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture Programs for rigorous professional study in these design disciplines. Three courses comprise the full time course of study over a two month period during the University of Virginia’s Summer Session. Introduction to both digital and manual representational techniques, developing the precision and facility necessary for visual communication. Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Architecture or Master of Landscape Architecture Program - required for entry into the three year course of professional study unless waived by the Department Chair.
Credits: 1
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ALAR 5030 - Introduction to Design Theory and Analysis
The Summer Design Institute prepares graduate students admitted to the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture Programs for rigorous professional study in these design disciplines. Three courses comprise the full time course of study over a two month period during the University of Virginia’s Summer Session. Introduction to the analysis of the physical environment at the intersection of historical understanding and contemporary imagination. Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Architecture or Master of Landscape Architecture Program - required for entry into the three year course of professional study unless waived by the Department Chair.
Credits: 1
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ALAR 5500 - Special Topic in Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Topical offerings in architecture and landscape architecture.
Credits: 3
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ALAR 6710 - Studio Workshop
Lectures and demonstrations of graphic skills and digital media to be incorporated in ARCH 6010.
Credits: 2
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ALAR 6712 - Studio Workshop
Lectures and demonstrations of graphic skills and digital media to be incorporated in ARCH 6020.
Credits: 2
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ALAR 7020 - Design Research Studio I
Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing structure, enclosure, life safety and building systems. Prerequisite: ARCH 7010 or LAR 7010
Credits: 6
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ALAR 8020 - Design Research Studio II
Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. Typical projects include brownfields, urban landscape infrastructure, and sustainable designs. Several choices available including Venice travel studio. Prerequisite: ARCH 8010 or LAR 8010
Credits: 6
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ALAR 8060 - Urbanism Design Studio
This design studio pulls together many issues that graduate students have studied individually in design technology, theory and history courses into a complex and integrated section of a living and working community. This research looks at integrating infrastructure systems as a community connection system, energy producing ecology and as a civic public space symbol.
Credits: 6
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ALAR 8100 - Design Research Seminar
Design Research Seminar. Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Credits: 3
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ALAR 8995 - Independent Design Research Studio
Independent Design Research Studio. Prerequisite: ALAR 8100 and permission of the chair.
Credits: 6
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SARC 5050 - Arts Marketing Theory & Practice
Audience development theory and marketing strategies and techniques as they apply specifically to the arts and arts institutions.
Credits: 3
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SARC 5100 - Sites and Systems
This course presents innovations in urban infrastructure that emphasize site-specific design, multi-functionality, security, ecological performance, aesthetic performance, resilience, and social justice.
Credits: 3
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SARC 5300 - The Arts in Community / Community in the Arts
The Arts in Community / Community in the Arts’ examines selected topics from among the multiplicity of relations between the two. Included will be spatial and community aspects of public art, art found locally, art to which the local community aspires, and the idea of community within artist populations. Using guest speakers, readings and other resources focuses class discussion on two sites:Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, & UVA’s Art Grounds.
Credits: 3
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SARC 5500 - Special Topics in the Graduate School of Architecture
Topical offerings in the Graduate School of Architecture.
Credits: 1 to 4
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SARC 5993 - Independent Study: Graduate School of Architecture
Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor
Credits: 1 to 4
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SARC 6000 - The Common Course
The Common course analyzes the existing and potential contributions of our four disciplines to the process of contemporary urbanization. The goal is to introduce all incoming graduate students to both the range of distinct perspectives and common threads represented in the School with respect to the land, history, environmental ethics and the role of design. Through lectures and workshops, students develop skills in representation, research and communication with an understanding of the methodologies of each discipline. All Master’s students in programs two years or longer must take this course.
Credits: 1
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ARAD 5050 - Arts Marketing Theory and Practice
Audience development theory and marketing strategies and techniques as they apply specifically to the arts and arts institutions.
Credits: 3
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ARAD 5200 - Development and Board Management
This course explores techniques and rationales behind the giving and the raising of funds; and the closely related skills of leading and managing trustees, boards and volunteers. The course will examine these fields using both theory and practical applications. Both in-class discussions and distinguished guest speakers will be utilized.
Credits: 3 to 4
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ARAD 5300 - The Arts in Community / Community in the Arts
The Arts in Community / Community in the Arts’ examines selected topics from among the multiplicity of relations between the two. Included will be spatial and community aspects of public art, art found locally, art to which the local community aspires, and the idea of community within artist populations. Using guest speakers, readings and other resources focuses class discussion on two sites:Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, & UVA’s Art Grounds.
Credits: 3
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ARAD 5500 - Introduction to Design Thinking
This course is a pilot seminar designed to launch for the Graduate School of Architecture a curriculum in Design Thinking, to be broadened and deepened in subsequent semesters. The course introduces the use of abductive reasoning to solve complex problems, using Architecture and the Arts as exemplars of creative problem solving techniques.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5010 - Astrophysical Processes
An introduction to the basic physics of astronomy and astrophysics organized around learning physical principles and applying them to astrophysical objects. Physics covered will be chosen from fluid mechanics, radiative transfer, statistical mechanics, classical and quantum radiation processes, and quantum mechanics of atomic and molecular structure. This graduate course will involve more complex and difficult assignments than ASTR 4810. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5110 - Astronomical Techniques
Surveys modern techniques of radiation measurement, data analysis, and image processing, and their application to astrophysical problems, especially the physical properties of stars and galaxies. Relevant laboratory experiments and observations with the department’s telescopes are included. Students are expected to develop a familiarity with programming and other basic computer skills if they do not already possess them. Prerequisite: ASTR 2110-2120; PHYS 3420, 3430 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5340 - Introductory Radio Astronomy
Studies the fundamentals of measuring power and power spectra, antennas, interferometers, and radiometers. Topics include thermal radiation, synchrotron radiation, and line frequency radiation; and radio emission from the planets, sun, flare stars, pulsars, supernovae, interstellar gas, galaxies, and quasi-stellar sources.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5350 - Introduction to Radio Astronomy Instrumentation
An introduction to the instrumentation of radio astronomy. Discussion includes fundamentals of measuring radio signals, noise theory, basic radiometry, antennas, low noise electronics, coherent receivers, signal processing for continuum and spectral line studies, and arrays. Lecture material is supplemented by illustrative labs. Prerequisite: ASTR 5340 or Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5420 - Interstellar Medium
Studies the physics of the interstellar gas and grains, the distribution and dynamics of gas, and cosmic radiation and interstellar magnetic fields. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5430 - Stellar Astrophysics
Studies observed properties and physics of stars including radiative transfer; stellar thermodynamics; convection; formation of spectra in atmospheres; equations of stellar structure; nuclear reactions; stellar evolution; and nucleosynthesis. Includes applicable numerical techniques. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5440 - Stellar Astrophysics
Studies observed properties and physics of stars including radiative transfer; stellar thermodynamics; convection; formation of spectra in atmospheres; equations of stellar structure; nuclear reactions; stellar evolution; and nucleosynthesis. Includes applicable numerical techniques. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5450 - High Energy Astrophysics
Introduces the physics of basic radiation mechanisms and particle acceleration processes that are important in high energy phenomena and space science. Discusses applications to pulsars, active galactic nuclei, radio galaxies, quasars, and supernovae. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5460 - Binary Stars
Topics include the determination of orbital elements, the mass-luminosity-radius relation, formation of binary systems, the Roche model, mass loss, mass transfer, circumstellar material, accretion disks, evolution of close interacting binaries, and some special classes of binaries such as cataclysmic variables, RS CVn binaries, Algol-type binaries, and X-ray binaries. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5480 - Evolution of the Universe
Studies the origin and evolution of structure in the universe. Topics include the formation and evolution of galaxies, and tests of the theory based on observations of large-scale structure and the properties of galaxies as a function of look-back time. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5500 - Topical Seminar
Detailed study of a current topic. Topic to be covered appears in the Course Offering Directory for the semester in which it is given. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5510 - Topical Seminar
Detailed study of a current topic. Topic to be covered appears in the Course Offering Directory for the semester in which it is given. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5559 - New Course in Astronomy
New course in the subject of astronomy.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ASTR 5610 - Galactic Structure and Stellar Populations
Explores the structure and evolution of star clusters and galaxies, with emphasis on the kinematics, chemistry, ages, and spectral energy distributions of stellar populations. The course introduces fundamental tools of Galactic astronomy, including methods for assessing the size, shape, age, and dynamics of the Milky Way and other stellar systems, galaxy formation, interstellar gas and dust, dark matter, and the distance scale. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5630 - Extragalactic Astronomy
This course provides an overview of extragalactic astronomy. Topics include both qualitative and quantitative discussion of various types of galaxy (ellipticals, spirals, dwarf, starburst); results from theory of stellar dynamics; groups and clusters of galaxies; active galaxies; high-redshift galaxies; galaxy evolution; the intergalactic medium; and dark matter. The course is intended for advanced undergraduate astrophysics majors and first and second year graduate students. Prerequisite: Physics and Math through PHYS 2610, MATH 3250 (or equivalent); ASTR 2110, 2120 (or equivalent).
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5640 - Extragalactic Astronomy II
This course provides an overview of extragalactic astronomy. Topics include both a qualitative and quantitative discussion of star formation in galaxies, galaxy interactions and mergers, active galaxies and quasars, cosmology, structure formation in the universe, and galaxy formation and evolution. The course is intended for advanced undergraduate astrophysics majors and first and second year graduate students. Proposed: This course provides an overview of extragalactic astronomy. Topics include both a qualitative and quantitative discussion of star formation in galaxies, galaxy interactions and mergers, active galaxies and quasars, cosmology, structure formation in the universe, and galaxy formation and evolution. The course is intended for advanced undergraduate astrophysics majors and first and second year graduate students. Prerequisite: ASTR 5630 or Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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ASTR 5730 - Astronomy: Space Science for Teachers
Explores selected topics in astronomy and cosmology relevant to K-12 teachers. Includes discussion of key concepts and theories and historical development, recent discoveries, and application of physical principles. Includes consideration of space and time, electromagnetic radiation, the structure and origin of the universe, the development of the solar system, stars and galaxies, and exploration of space.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 6210 - Introduction to Sky and Solar System Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 1210. Students are offered special assignments and consultation on introductory astronomy concepts on the sky and solar system related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections, but restricted to graduate students in the Curry school. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 6220 - Introduction to Stars, Galaxies, and Universe Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 1220. Students are offered special assignments and consultation on introductory astronomy concepts on the stars, galaxies and universe related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections but restricted to graduate students in the Curry school. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 6230 - Introduction to Astronomical Observation Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 1230. Students are offered special assignments and consultation on introductory concepts in observational astronomy related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 6340 - Astronomy Concepts in the Classroom
A seminar-style class offered for graduate students in the School of Education and in-service teachers seeking credit towards (re) certification. In addition to astronomy content, students will learn effective astronomy lessons. Prerequisite: instructor permission
Credits: 3
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ASTR 6410 - Archaeo-Astronomy Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 3410. Students are offered special reading assignments and consultation on prescientific astronomy concepts related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections. Prerequisite: Curry School Students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 6420 - Life Beyond the Earth Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 3420. Students are offered special reading assignments and consultation on extraterrestrial life concepts related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ASTR 6470 - Science and Controversy Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 3470. Students are offered special reading assignments and consultation on science and pseudoscience concepts related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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