Learning Outcomes
Architecture Student Learning Outcomes
LO 1: Design
Develop and critically analyze architectural design
- Students will demonstrate an ability to recognize and manipulate the interplay between form, function structure, and materiality in 3D spaces;
- conceive original design solutions that endow spaces with utilitarian, aesthetic, and affective value.
LO 2: Represent
Employ modes of architectural representation and other discipline-specific vocabulary and analytic systems
- From a selection of drawings, physical and digital models, written statements and oral presentations students will demonstrate competency in architectural representation.
LO 3: Situate
Situate architecture within historic, social and cultural contexts
- Students will produce work (such as short essays, structured class discussions, presentations, original research papers) using the methods of the history and theory of architecture.
- Examples of appropriate work may also include studio case study analyses or exhibitions using discipline-specific methodologies.
LO 4: Position
Assert a critical position through the development of an architecture thesis
- In their architecture thesis projects or original papers students will formulate a research question; collect and select relevant information; distinguish their authorial voice from that of their sources; draw a conclusion or a thesis that conveys the complexity of the researched topic and takes a position; substantiate their position by deploying evidence; present the position in a clearly organized and persuasive prose and/or graphic presentation.
Architecture
College of Arts and Sciences
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