Courses deal with four groups of specific topics related to architecture: design, humanities, technology, and professional practice. They are organized in terms of required courses constituting a necessary common foundation for advanced studies; elective courses offering greater depth in selected areas; and research studies dealing in highly specific areas of investigation. The courses constitute a necessary foundation of information as well as develop skills in assimilating the information into knowledge.

The four different course groups are:

• Design
• Humanities
• Technology
• Professional Practice

Design is the central and defining subject of a school of architecture. It is the specialized extension of the natural human capability and tendency for resolution of complex and diverse issues into forms, ideas, and theories. In architecture the resolution is design as built form.

Humanities explores the world rooted in human imagination; technology, the world rooted in nature. The role of each is to lead the student to a broad understanding of the cultural context of architecture, and to the understanding of works of architecture in terms of humanities and technology.

Professional practice deals with issues of management, codes of practice, and nature of professional authority and responsibilities of architects in practice.

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