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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
ARCHITECTURE
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5133 Advanced and International Professional Practice and Ethics
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A seminar dealing with national and international business and legal environments in the design and construction industry. Topics include agreement and delivery options, forms of construction, project procedures and administration, liability, contract documents, and ethics.

5153 Environmental Architecture and Sustainability
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Review of the current discourse of sustainability as it occurs in the design professions with a focus on ethical and sustainable design practices. Addresses key issues of environmentally sustainable design within a social and cultural framework. Examination of the tools and techniques employed to produce sustainable architectural environments. May be repeated for credit once when topics vary. (Formerly ARC 5143.)

5173 Architectural Theory and Criticism
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Seminar survey of historical basis and contemporary development of architectural theory and the criteria used in architectural criticism from both Western and non-Western perspectives.

5203 History and Theory of Preservation
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A seminar on the history, philosophy, and methodology of historic preservation and restoration.

5213 Theories and Philosophies of Regionalism
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Seminar focusing on issues of regionalism; appropriate interventions between the natural environment and the history and traditions of the built environment that together maintain and contribute to a sense of place in communities and regions.

5233 Architectural Surveys and Measured Drawings
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: ARC 5203.
Documentation and interpretation of sites and buildings and graphic recording techniques.

5303 International Practice Seminar
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
A seminar focusing on the professional, legal, social, and cultural issues that affect international architecture, construction, and urban development. May be repeated for credit once when topics vary.

5313 International Housing Design and Planning
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Evolution of international housing planning and design with emphasis on sustainable design methods, materials, techniques, and solutions.

5333 Introduction to Urban Design and Regional Physical Planning
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Planning for human needs as related to the physical layout and spatial design of communities and regions.

5343 History and Theories of Urban and Regional Planning
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A survey of the history and theories of urban and regional planning. Values and ethics of the planning profession; methods of participation.

5403 Historic Preservation Seminar
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Selected topics in architecture, design, preservation, and planning. May be repeated for credit when topics vary, but not more than 6 hours will apply to the Master of Architecture degree or the Master of Science degree.

5423 Legal and Economic Aspects of Preservation
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Laws and regulations that affect preservation of the built environment, nationally, regionally, and locally. Fundamentals of legal protection for and regulation of historic cultural resources in light of contemporary attitudes toward the historic environment. Economic bases of the use of historic buildings and sites examined in terms of contemporary social and cultural attitudes that determine effective strategies of preservation action.

5613 American Architecture
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Development of the architecture of North, Central, and South America from the earliest human settlements to the present.

5623 Regional and Vernacular Architecture
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
History of the settlement patterns of immigrants to the North American continent and the response to climate, material availability, and economic constraints that required adaptation of housing, farm, and industrial structures. Consideration of the anonymous builders of the South Texas/North Mexico region and the special problems their structures pose as objects worthy of preservation.

5633 Construction Management
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Organization of construction resources and activities to include consideration of scheduling, methods of construction, project planning and management, cost accounting, and personnel utilization.

6003 Morphology of the Architecture and Landscape of South Texas and Borderlands
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of environmental conditions, cultural traditions, social patterns, building conventions, and aesthetic intentions that have influenced the architecture and planning of communities of South Texas, the Southwest, and the North Mexican borderlands. (Formerly ARC 6123. Credit cannot be earned for both ARC 6003 and ARC 6123.)

6113 Special Topics
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Selected topics in architecture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary, but not more than 6 hours will apply to the Master of Architecture degree or the Master of Science degree.

6146 Advanced Design Studio
(1-10) 6 hours credit.
Advanced problems in architectural design. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 18 hours will apply to the Master of Architecture degree.

6233 International Community Planning and Design
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A study of sustainable design, planning, economic, financial, and environmental issues that shape multicultural communities, regions and borders.

6413 Preservation Technology
(1-4) 3 hours credit.
Techniques of preservation: methods of analysis, history of materials, and technology used in old buildings. Emphasis on buildings as integrated sets of subsystems and how these are affected by the processes of material deterioration, conservation, and techniques of intervention. May be repeated for credit once when topics vary.

6423 Architectural Conservation Theory
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A study of the problems of older sites and buildings and the techniques employed in preserving and restoring them.

6433 Research Methods in Architecture
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course examines theories and methods in architectural research. Includes a critical review of theoretical perspectives and considers a range of research methods and techniques used in architectural research.

6933 Master’s Project Preparation
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The course involves the preparation of a proposal for an independent design project.

6943 Professional Internship
3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing, 18 semester credit hours of graduate work, and consent of instructor.
Supervised professional practice experience with public agencies or private firms. Individual conferences and written reports required. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 hours will apply to the Master of Architecture degree or the Master of Science degree.

6951-3 Independent Study
1 to 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission in writing (form available) of the instructor and the Graduate Advisor of Record.
Independent reading, research, discussion, and/or writing under the direction of a faculty member. For students needing specialized work not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 hours, regardless of discipline, will apply to the Master of Architecture degree or the Master of Science degree.

6961 Comprehensive Examination
1 hour credit.
Independent study course for the purpose of taking the Comprehensive Examination. The grade report for the course is either “CR” (satisfactory performance on the Comprehensive Examination) or “NC” (unsatisfactory performance on the Comprehensive Examination). Credit earned in ARC 6961 may not be counted toward the degree. May be repeated once.

6973,6 Special Problems
(3-0, 6-0) 3 or 6 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
An organized course offering the opportunity for specialized study not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. Special Problems courses may be repeated for credit when topics vary, but not more than
6 semester credit hours for ARC 6973 or 12 hours for ARC 6976 will apply to the Master of Architecture degree or the Master of Science degree.

6981,3 Master’s Thesis
1 or 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of the Architecture Graduate Advisor of Record.
May be repeated for credit but not more than 6 hours will apply to a degree. Credit will be awarded upon completion of the thesis. Enrollment is required each term in which the thesis is in progress.

6996 Master’s Project Studio
(0-12) 6 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of the Architecture Graduate Advisor of Record.
The focus of the studio is the completion of an independent design project.

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