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translation from one representational language to another and to produce practical exercises
on concrete spatial structures.

ARCH 451 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND DESIGN MANAGEMENT
Credits: 2(3,0,0) Prerequisite: 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.

ARCH 455 ARCHITECTURAL PUBLICATIONS
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisite: None
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.

ARCH 456 EMERGING BUILDING MATERIALS ANDTECHNIQUES
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisite: None

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.

ARCH 465 SUSTAINABLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisite: None

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.

ARCH 492 Co-Op
Credits:10 (0,0,0) Prerequisite: Completion of 90 credit hours

The Co-Op is a career related professional program available to all Architecture students. It is
designed to help students build on skills already learned in the classroom and acquire new ones
as well. Co-Op education is available to Architecture students who have accumulated the
requisite number or more credits. The Co-Op option counts for 10 credit hours (CRs) for
practical onsite experience over a 7 month period, i.e. spanning one semester and a summer.

ARCH 498 SENIOR PROJECT I
Credits: 2(2,0,0) Prerequisites: ENG 301, Senior Standing;Co-requisite:ARCH411
The course is oriented towards systematic analysis of senior project dealing with functional and
spatial relationships, location and setting, physical and human environments, use of
precedents, and provision of synthesis and alternative concepts for design. The outcome will be
presented as written and visual presentation