Course Descriptions

ARCH 5320 - Some Assembly Required: Research and Development

This course functions as research and development seminar - the research and development initiatives will consist of three distinct and critically interdependent phases: first, case study analysis and interpretation; secondly, development of issue-specific project proposal; and thirdly, innovative advancement of research topic. In consultation with the course instructor, research initiatives focus on a specific topic of building construction



Credits: 3

ARCH 5321 - Some Assembly Required: Design Build

ARCH 5340 - Construction Practice Management

Provides future architects, engineers, lawyers, and developers with an overall understanding of the construction process for commercial, industrial, and institutional projects. Follows the history of a typical project from selection of architect to final completion of construction. Topics include design cost control, cost estimating, bidding procedures, bonds and insurance, contracts and sub-contracts, progress scheduling, fiscal controls, payment requests, submittals, change orders, inspections, overall project administration, and continuing architect-owner-contractor relationships. Lectures and related field trips.



Credits: 3

ARCH 5342 - Energy Performance Workshop

This is a workshop in energy performance analysis for buildings. Using a range of building simulation and climate study software, this workshop will teach and apply the principles and practice of building performance simulation, with a focus on passive design and passive vs. active energy optimizations. Our intent is to assess, understand, and develop an intuition for energy performance issues in design, while learning the tools to model them.



Credits: 3

ARCH 5360 - Concepts in Architecture 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

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

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

ARCH 5380 - Soft Surface Operations

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

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

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

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

ARCH 5424 - Direct Cinema Media Fabrics

An interdisciplinary workshop and seminar that combines documentary moviemaking and video input with virtual and physical media output. Video and sound recording or a motion capture body suit may be used to collect initial data. The data may be translated to facilitate the making or movement of physical objects. Or, the data may be translated to figure creatively in virtual representations such as used in motion picture production.



Credits: 3

ARCH 5430 - Land Development Workshop

Explores the land development process from the perspective of the private land developer interacting with local governments. Includes development potential, site, and traffic analysis; land planning; development programming; and services to accommodate new development and public regulation of land development.



Credits: 3

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

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

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

ARCH 5500 - Special Topics in Architecture

ARCH 5501 - Special Topics in Architecture

ARCH 5510 - J-Term Courses

ARCH 5590 - Faculty Research Seminar

ARCH 5607 - International Design Research

Interanally-focused independent design research conducted under the guidance and direct supervision of a faculty member.



Credits: 3

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

ARCH 5609 - India Research Seminar

Students will study seminal and everyday works of architecture and urbanism through sketches, drawings, paintings, collage, photographs, video and narrative. They will investigate literary, historical and philosophical foundations through the close reading of texts and films. Discussions will focus on the evolving environmental, political, religious, social discourse that informs the contemporary India built environment.



Credits: 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ARCH 5993 - Independent Study

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 6010-6020 to determine the progress and potential of each student.



Credits: 6

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

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

ARCH 6140 - Architectural Analysis: Key Buildings of Modernism

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

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

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

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

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

ARCH 6261 - Building Integration Workshop 2

For first year students in the first professional MArch program. 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 ARCH 3260, Building Matters.



Credits: 3

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

ARCH 6500 - Special Topics in Architecture

ARCH 6710 - CAAD 3D Geometrical Modeling and Visualization

Introduction to computing, 3-D modeling and digital media for first year MArch students. Students with previous experience in architectural computing can choose to enroll in elective visualization modules.



Credits: 3

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

ARCH 7020 - Foundation Studio 3

Intermediate-level design problems, emphasizing structure, enclosure, life safety and building systems.
Prerequisite: ALAR 7010



Credits: 6

ARCH 7120 - Architecture Theory

This course will investigate the role that ideas play in the conception, making and interpretation of buildings. As a basis for this inquiry, the course will explore significant architectural and urban theories, design strategies, and architectural projects developed primarily from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Lectures will cover a broad range of theoretical positions that have influenced or emerged from form making.



Credits: 3

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

ARCH 7230 - Design Development

This course focuses on the resolution of an architectural project with particular emphasis on issues of comfort, life safety, structural stability assembly processes.



Credits: 3

ARCH 7250 - Environmental Systems

The course involves the study of human comfort, environmental conditioning systems, building systems, daylighting and lighting technology. Students will be exposed to digital simulation tools to assess daylighting and energy use.



Credits: 3

ARCH 7270 - BIM and Revit 1

This visualization module offers an introduction to the principles of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the interface and workflow of Autodesk’s Revit. Topics include the BIM interface, parametric objects, parametric families, file organization, workflow, drawing setup, and output techniques. No experience with BIM is required for this module.



Credits: 1

ARCH 7272 - BIM and Revit 2

This visualization module is the second component in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) sequence and serves as an advanced study of the principles of BIM. Emphasis will be on the exploitation of parametric tools and data within BIM software for specific design agendas. Topics will include scheduling, energy analysis and adaptive components. BIM and Revit 1 is a prerequisite unless sufficient knowledge of Revit can be demonstrated.



Credits: 1

ARCH 7500 - Special Topics in Architecture

ARCH 7993 - Independent Study

ARCH 8010 - Comprehensive Studio

Design studies of selected architectural problems through extensive site analysis and strategic constructional rigor.
Prerequisite: ALAR 7020.



Credits: 6

ARCH 8230 - Building Synthesis

This course investigates, develops and applies environmental and design strategies at various scales of operation through the concurrent ARCH 8020 Comprehensive Design Research Studio 2.



Credits: 3

ARCH 8300 - Preservation/ Adaptive Use

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: 3

ARCH 8481 - Professionl Ethics & Communctn Seminar

ARCH 8500 - Special Topics in Architecture

ARCH 8800 - Teaching Experience

ARCH 8801 - Research Experience

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

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

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.
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

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.
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

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

ALAR 5500 - Special Topic in Architecture and Landscape Architecture

ALAR 6710 - Studio Workshop

ALAR 7010 - Research Studio 1

Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research.
Prerequisite: ARCH 6020 or LAR 6020.



Credits: 6

ALAR 7020 - Foundation Studio III

ALAR 8010 - Comprehensive Design Research Studio 1

Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research. Part one of a two part comprehensive design sequence.
Prerequisite: ARCH 7020 or LAR 7020.



Credits: 6

ALAR 8020 - Comprehensive 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.
Prerequisite: ARCH 8010 or LAR 8010



Credits: 6

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

ALAR 8100 - Design Research: Methods and Strategies

This course is for students in architecture/landscape undertaking an independent design/thesis studio in the spring semester, or students interested in strategic design thinking. Methods for initiating a thesis, research systems, documentation strategies, design experimentation, and modes of production and presentation will be covered. Collective critical discussion, analysis, and feedback as well as production of a final book will be required.



Credits: 3

ALAR 8993 - Independent Study

Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor



Credits: 1-6

ALAR 8995 - Independent Design Research Thesis Studio

SARC 5020 - Design Practicum Project Internship

Work in real design commissions, collaborations or competitions with a faculty member, in relevant topics for the school, university, city or community, with a final delivery. The designs solve real needs from a design research approach.



Credits: 6

SARC 5021 - Design Practium Project: MoMa PSI YAP 2013

This course gives students an opportunity to work on a design competition with TempAgency, a collaboration between Kutonotuk (L. Cho/M. Jull) and mcdowellespinosa (R. Espinosa/S. McDowell), who have been shortlisted as one of five finalists for the 2013 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program in New York. Students will participate in research, concept, design development, and production - leading to a final presentation at MoMA PS1 NYC on Feb 7, 2013



Credits: 3

SARC 5022 - Design Practicum Project: ecoMOD/ecoREMOD

This seminar is focused on current projects within ecoMOD / ecoREMOD, a research and design / build / evaluate project at the School of Architecture, in partnership with the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The project goal is to develop sustainable and highly energy efficient housing units for affordable housing organizations. Both prefabricated homes, and renovations of existing homes are the focus of the effort.



Credits: 2-3

SARC 5031 - Design Practicum Project Summer Studio: ecoMOD/ecoREMOD

This intensive studio is part of ecoMOD / ecoREMOD, a research and design / build / evaluate project at the School of Architecture, in partnership with the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The project goal is to develop sustainable and highly energy-efficient housing units for affordable housing organizations. During the summer of 2013, students will work on the design and construction of several home renovations in the 10th and Page



Credits: 6

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

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

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

SARC 5500 - Special Topics in the School of Architecture

SARC 5555 - Visualization Elective Modules

Students select from a number of visualization one to three credit modules focusing on all forms of visualization. During this semester, students must select from among the digital visualization choices.



Credits: 1 to 3

SARC 5600 - Hoos on the Road

This course will engage students in the challenges & opportunities facing American communities. It will include on-Grounds class time, site visits to communities that are implementing new strategies to meet the challenges of the 21st century, & meetings with decision makers.Students will review original legislation & policies that have impacted communities.



Credits: 3

SARC 5700 - Community as Classroom:Urban Studies & Service Learning in Cape Coast,Ghana

This course targets advanced undergraduate and graduate students whose research interests focus on values-based planning, design and urban revitalization. Through a unique combination of traditional classroom and field learning experience, students will gain practical knowledge of developing and implementing tangible urban solutions. In this respect, the course is designed to immerse the student in the culture of Cape Coast and Ghana.



Credits: 6

SARC 5702 - Introduction to Italian

This course will introduce the principles of Italian grammar and conversation. It is a required prerequisite for students planning to enroll in the Venice Semester Program but it is open to all students in the School of Architecture.



Credits: 2

SARC 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

SARC 5993 - Independent Study: School of Architecture

SARC 6000 - The Common Course

The Common course analyzes the existing and potential contributions of the four disciplinesin the School of Architecture 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.



Credits: 1

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

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

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