USF 2000-2001 Undergraduate Catalog - Page 198
The School of Architecture & Community Design (SACD), a professional graduate school affiliated to the Office of Graduate Studies, offers pre-professional study opportunities in architecture and community design topics which may be taken as electives within the liberal education study plans for a wide range of baccalaureate degree fields. These offerings are available both to USF students and those attending other regional institutions who are interested in preparing for various advanced degrees and careers in the urban development industry.
SACD encourages upper level student enrollment in eleven (11) current graduate level courses as electives within their individual majors and distribution opportunities as well as continuing to offer “ARC 4784 The City”, an approved Exit Course. Topics covered in this listing include most of the required and elective coursework associated with the first three semesters of graduate studies for the Master of Architecture degree. They provide broad awareness and understanding of history, theory and technology associated with the profession’s focus on urban built environments, as well as introductory architectural design and graphic skills. Credits earned in these graduate level courses on a non-degree seeking basis can be applied later toward advanced standing in the USF Master of Architecture curriculum by those students who meet SACD’s admission standards.
The use of these courses as electives for undergraduate students represents the first step in the planned expansion of SACD’s cooperative pre-professional and liberal education partnerships with undergraduate degree granting units at USF and other regional colleges. A coordinated pre-professional curriculum option within the Liberal Studies Major and ALA Degree Program offered by the College of Arts and Sciences will begin accepting students in 2000-01. The Liberal Studies pre-professional major will provide choices of accelerated study tracks toward the pre-requisites and graduate credit requirements of various advanced degree fields and related preparation for careers in design, planning, research, and management of urban built environments.
For more specific information on the opportunities available through the Liberal Studies Major and ALA Degree — as well as current semester class offerings, schedules, and registration procedures for SACD courses — students and faculty advisers should first examine SACD website resources, following up as needed with staff/faculty contacts by telephone and/or e-mail.
Website: www.arch.usf.edu
Telephone: 813-974-4031
E.mail: information@arch.usf.edu
Please send questions or comments to:
Karen M. Hall - webCat@ugs.usf.edu
Effective Date: Semester I, 2000
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