University Catalog

Sustainable Urban Design

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Bachelor's Degree

Overview

The four-year Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Urban Design (SUD) is distinctive because in addition to the studio-based disciplines of landscape architecture, planning, and architecture, it has public affairs, bringing together the design and governmental realms necessary to bring any urban design project to fruition.  This unique interdisciplinary structure will equip students with the skills to successfully navigate within complex urban design decision-making milieus, underscoring the degree’s practical, applicable, problem-solving essence. Infusing the curriculum of this design degree is an emphasis upon sustainability that encompasses environmental, social, and economic considerations.

The degree is a pre-professional program for students who intend to pursue graduate study in landscape architecture: such students will need to subsequently enroll in Path A of CAPPA’s Master of Landscape Architecture program or an equivalent at another institution. The B.S. in Sustainable Urban Design does prepare for subsequent master-degree study in landscape architecture, planning, and public affairs.

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The Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Urban Design degree combines a core liberal arts curriculum with a structured sequence of courses in sustainable urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and public affairs. In addition to these courses, students within the program select 18 hours of upper-level electives from a list that includes courses from many disciplines within the university.

The B.S. in Sustainable Urban Design is a four-year program consisting of 120 hours, in two two-year segments: Basic Studies and Major Studies. Students are expected to show consistent satisfactory progress toward completion of the degree.

The first two years (Basic Studies) is a foundation curriculum taken by all undergraduates at that level in the school. In addition to work in the arts and sciences, Basic Studies includes all required core curriculum for the degree as well as a series of lecture and studio courses which introduce the student to the concepts, history, skills, and vocabulary of design.

Following the two-year Basic Studies sequence, the student completes two years of Major Studies, an intensive series of courses and studios on the theory, history, skill, and practice of sustainable urban design.

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