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ARCH443 Real Estate Development
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisites: Senior standing
The course considers theories, strategies, and methods relating to real-estate prospects. The
course looks at the development of sustainable planning based on assessment of real market
needs and demands, as well as location analysis for proper marketing devolution.

ARCH444 GIS for Urban Design
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisites: Senior standing
The course covers methods of constructing a Geographical Information System (GIS). Students
acquire the necessary skills to prepare intelligent maps with spatial databases for parcel mapping,
planning, zoning, facility mapping, creating buffer zones, slope analysis, and neighborhood and
zone analysis, using CAD map software packages.

ARCH445 Space Syntax
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisites: Senior standing
The course explores structural properties of spatial representation. Both the mental images and
the possible critical aspects that connect those basic images with specific cultural contexts are
examined. The aim of the course is to guide students in the discovery the potentialities of
translation from one representational language to another and to produce practical exercises on
concrete spatial structures.

ARCH451 Professional Practice and Design Management
Credits: 2 (3,0,0) Prerequisites: ARCH 354
The course focuses on architectural practice. Topics discussed include office procedures, contract
management, ethics, professional judgment, legal constraints, and adherence to codes, contracts,
regulations and laws.

ARCH455 Architectural Publications
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisites: Senior standing
The course integrates conceptual communicative thinking and design as well as principles and
practices of publication design and production, with emphasis on magazines, newsletters,
newspapers and contemporary formats and use of traditional and electronic information services
as resources. 20th century and current print architectural and web-based publications, are
surveyed and critically assessed.

ARCH456 Emerging Building Materials and Techniques
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisites: Senior standing
The course focuses one merging building materials and techniques that have the potential to be
applied in architectural design. It looks at exploratory technological advances that have introduced
new materials in the market and their impact on global sustainability.

ARCH465 Sustainable and Environmental Design
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisites: Senior standing
The course provides an overview of critical developments in sustainable building design strategies
by examining environmental problems and possible solutions through design. It explains the
principles of sustainability in architecture and urban design decisions that conserve natural and
built resources, culturally important buildings and sites, and healthful buildings and communities.

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