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ANTH - Anthropology (Graduate Courses) |
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ANTH 5319 - Topics in Physical Anthropology 3 Semester Credit Hours
Selected topics or examination of a currently important topic in physical anthropology. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 hours credit.
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ANTH 5322 - Social Anthropology 3 Semester Credit Hours
Seminar in contemporary social anthropology. Selected topics in kinship, social, and political organization; warfare and conflict resolution; and ritual and symbolism.
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ANTH 5323 - Topics in Cultural Anthropology 3 Semester Credit Hours
May be repeated for credit.
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ANTH 5341 - Method and Theory in Archeology 3 Semester Credit Hours
An intensive survey of the development and present status of method and theory in archeology.
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ANTH 5343 - Topics in Anthropological Archeology 3 Semester Credit Hours
Examination of either a currently important methodological topic in archeology or the archaeological knowledge extant from a site or geographic unit. May be repeated for credit. Also offered as a summer field course.
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ANTH 5352 - Ethnolinguistics 3 Semester Credit Hours
Survey of the nature of the interrelationships between language and culture.
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ANTH 5353 - Current Debates in Bioarchaeology 3 Semester Credit Hours
Covers current theoretical debates and methodological trends in bioarchaeology. Emphasizes communicating bioarchaeological topics to the general public.
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ANTH 5642 - Advanced Field Archaeology 6 Semester Credit Hours
Field school providing instruction in crew supervision and advanced archaeological field techniques, including site survey, excavations, record keeping, TDS mapping, and photography.
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ANTH 5643 - Field Research in Skeletal Biology 6 Semester Credit Hours
A field experience providing hands-on learning specific to human skeletal biology and forensic methods.
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ANTH 6000 - Master’s Thesis V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
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ANTH 7000 - Research V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
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ARAB - Arabic (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ARAB 1501 - Beginning Course in Arabic I 5 Semester Credit Hours
Introduction and development of the four language skills in Arabic. Listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing.
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ARAB 1502 - Beginning Course in Arabic II 5 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARAB 1501 . Introduction and development of the four language skills in Arabic. Listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing.
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ARAB 2301 - Second Course in Arabic I 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARAB 2311] Prerequisite: ARAB 1502 . Reading, cultural background, grammar review, conversation and composition.
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ARAB 2302 - Second Course in Arabic II 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARAB 2312] Prerequisite: ARAB 1501 , ARAB 1502 , ARAB 2301 . Reading, cultural background, grammar review, conversation and composition.
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ARAB 3301 - Advanced Arabic Conversation 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARAB 2302 or instructor consent. A proficiency-based course in Modern Standard Arabic. Independent study. Can be repeated with new content and dialects.
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ARAB 3305 - Introduction to Arab-Muslim Civilization 3 Semester Credit Hours
Overview of Arab-Muslim civilization to include such topics as culture, Islam, cinema, art, and women. In English. Fulfills multicultural requirement.
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ARAB 3306 - Arabic Language Studies 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARAB 1502 or instructor consent Readings in cultural history and literature, lectures, and tours on location. Taught in Arabic. May be repeated once for credit with different content.
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ARAB 4300 - Individual Studies in Arabic 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARAB 2302 or instructor consent. Independent work under the guidance of a faculty member. Contents vary to meet the needs of the student. May be repeated for up to 12 credit hours.
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ARCH - Architecture (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ARCH 1101 - Architectural Representation I 1 Semester Credit Hours
Corequisite: ARCH 1301 . An introduction to the techniques and methods of architectural representation with an emphasis on utilizing architectural projection systems to describe form, space, and geometry.
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ARCH 1102 - Architectural Representation II 1 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 1101 . Corequisite: ARCH 1302 . A continued introduction to the techniques of architectural representation with an emphasis on the hybridization of analogue and digital methods.
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ARCH 1301 - Architectural Design I 3 Semester Credit Hours
Corequisite: ARCH 1101 . Introduction to foundational principles of observation, ordering, and analysis, for the purpose of communicating design strategies, as a precursor to design synthesis.
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ARCH 1302 - Architectural Design II 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ARCH 1101 , ARCH 1301 . Approaching the creative process in architecture through synthetic process and the construction of spatial organizational strategies.
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ARCH 1311 - Design, Environment, and Society 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARCH 1311] Introduction to architecture as an integral component of a complex world. Examination of societal and environmental contexts and appropriate design responses. Fulfills core Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement. F.
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ARCH 1341 - Architectural Freehand Drawing 3 Semester Credit Hours
Basic skills and techniques in representational drawing. Subjects include the human figure, architectural interiors and exteriors, landscapes and cityscapes. Black and white media. F.
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ARCH 1353 - Digital Media I 3 Semester Credit Hours
An introduction to the use of the computer as a design drawing tool with an emphasis on conceptual knowledge and computing skills for design communication. S.
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ARCH 2101 - Architectural Representation III 1 Semester Credit Hours
Corequisite: ARCH 2503 . Prerequisite: ARCH 1102 . Advanced architectural representation techniques emphasizing digital craft and acumen, with an introduction to fabrication techniques and tools.
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ARCH 2102 - Architectural Representation IV 1 Semester Credit Hours
Corequisite: ARCH 2504 . Prerequisite: ARCH 2101 . Develops a thorough understanding of complex architecture representation with an emphasis on multimedia techniques and tools with the use of advanced fabrication methods.
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ARCH 2311 - History of World Architecture I 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARCH 1301] Survey of the development of world architecture from pre-history to the Middle Ages. Fulfills core Language, Philosophy, and Culture requirement. F.
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ARCH 2315 - History of World Architecture II 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARCH 1302] Survey of the development of world architecture from the Renaissance through the 19th century. Fulfills core Creative Arts requirement. S.
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ARCH 2342 - Creative Process 3 Semester Credit Hours
Exploration of graphic, drawing, and art-media skills to strengthen design process and judgment. S.
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ARCH 2351 - Architectural Technology I: Matter 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARCH 2312] Prerequisite: C or better in ID 3487 for Interior Design students. Introduction to architectural technology and our constructed relationship with the environment. Emphasis on contemporary materials, behaviors, sources, sustainability, methods of fabrication, products and their potentialities. F.
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ARCH 2355 - Architectural Technology II: Gravity 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 2351 . Introduction to the mechanics of structural materials with emphasis on capacities and behavior. Structural analysis and determination of structural systems via load-tracing, equilibrium and statics. F.
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ARCH 2362 - Fundamentals in Architectural Thinking 3 Semester Credit Hours
Covers critical works from architecture and other related disciplines; traces how different systems of ideas have transformed architectural production from antiquity to today. (CL)
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ARCH 2503 - Architectural Design III 5 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 1302 , ARCH 1102 , admission to the professional program. Corequisite: ARCH 2101 . Develops design skills through the extension and application of representational techniques that allow a designer to explore relationships between form, space and inhabitation. Studio course.
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ARCH 2504 - Architectural Design IV 5 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ARCH 2503 . Corequisite: ARCH 2102 . Advances the student’s understanding of architecture’s disciplinary specificity through the development of a coherent design project that resolves programmatic, tectonic and contextual forces. Studio course.
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ARCH 3313 - History of World Architecture III 3 Semester Credit Hours
Survey of the development of world architecture during the 20th and 21th centuries. F.
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ARCH 3314 - Contemporary Issues in Architecture 3 Semester Credit Hours
Contemporary issues in architectural theory and history utilizing precedents from early 20th century to present. May be repeated for credit. (CL)
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ARCH 3315 - Building the United States 3 Semester Credit Hours
Examines the construction of the United States as both a process of building and creation of culture. Describes the parallel development of the U.S.’s diverse and energetic society at work by examining a wide array of works of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape.
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ARCH 3341 - Digital Media II 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 1353 and ARCH 2102 . The use of 3-D computer graphics and modeling or design development with an emphasis on multimedia design presentations. F.
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ARCH 3350 - Architectural Technology III: Gravity 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 2355 . Study of structures with emphasis on capacities/actions/statics and equilibrium. Analysis of structural behavior: material/assemblies/joints. Introduction to structures codes.
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ARCH 3352 - Building Information Technology 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ARCH 1102 , ARCH 1353 , ARCH 2355 , and ARCH 3350 . Analysis of communication of technical information and the process of preparing documents for building construction utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM). (CL)
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ARCH 3355 - Architectural Technology IV: Atmosphere 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 3350 . Study of environmental systems and envelopes with emphasis on their relationships. Analysis of air-conditioning, ventilation, acoustics, daylighting, facades, cladding. Introduction to MEP, codes, regulations.
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ARCH 3361 - Design Workshop 3 Semester Credit Hours
Special projects and project development in architectural design. May be repeated for credit.
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ARCH 3362 - Product Design Workshop 3 Semester Credit Hours
Introduction to the design and executed construction of a prototypical piece of furniture or other design product using an architectural design process. May be repeated for credit. S.
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ARCH 3373 - Environmental Analysis - Site Planning 3 Semester Credit Hours
Basic course to develop a working knowledge of the techniques and principles involved in site planning to provide optimum living and working environments. F.
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ARCH 3601 - Architectural Design V 6 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 2504 . Builds on foundational skills through a series of complex constraints and contexts, while emphasizing social, cultural, or civic roles of architectural design. Open only to architecture majors or to students having permission of the Dean.
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ARCH 3602 - Architectural Design VI 6 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 3601 . Focuses on how architectural concepts and ideations translate into built environments that affect the public realm. Open only to architecture majors or to students having permission of the Dean. (CL)
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ARCH 4000 - Architecture and Urban Studies V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Advanced standing and approval of the dean. Individual studies of special interest in advanced architecture, history of architecture, and city planning. May be repeated for credit.
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ARCH 4311 - Architecture in Nonwestern Societies 3 Semester Credit Hours
A study of multicultural architectural contributions, interrelationships of culture and architecture, diversity of traditions, meanings, modernity, and change in the nonwestern world.
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ARCH 4324 - Introduction to Historic Preservation 3 Semester Credit Hours
An introduction to the history and contemporary practice of historic preservation, including the preservation of buildings, landscapes, and material culture.
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ARCH 4325 - Cultural Heritage Tourism 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 4324 . Study of the practice and theory of heritage tourism and strategies for the sustainable development and management of cultural heritage tourism initiatives.
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ARCH 4341 - Media Elective 3 Semester Credit Hours
Analog or digital media options chosen from approved list. May be repeated for credit.
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ARCH 4342 - Poetic Re-presentations 3 Semester Credit Hours
Explores how digital media and physical material are used interchangeably offering new ways to see, think, study, and understand architectural re-presentation.
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ARCH 4354 - Integrative Building Modeling 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 2355 and ARCH 3355 . Integration of structural, mechanics, electrical, plumbing, and code with life safety systems into building design, through a comprehensive building model. S.
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ARCH 4361 - Architectural Studies Seminar 3 Semester Credit Hours
The study, presentation, and discussion of issues regarding architecture as an aspect of culture. May be repeated for credit.
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ARCH 4391 - Architectural Internship 4 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 3602 . Individual study based on an approved internship position consisting of a minimum of 300 hours per semester or summer.
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ARCH 4392 - Historic Preservation Internship 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ARCH 4324 and ARCH 4325 . Supervised internship designed to provide students with practical experience. Practicum includes a report, an oral presentation, and a minimum work commitment of 160 hours.
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ARCH 4601 - Architectural Design VII 6 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 3602 . Provides instruction in advanced architectural design projects. Students develop integrated design skills negotiating the complex issues of program, site, and form in a specific cultural context. Integrates aspects of architectural theory, building technology, and computation into the design process.
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ARCH 4602 - Architectural Design VIII 6 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 4601 . Provides instruction in advanced architectural design projects. Students develop integrated design skills as they negotiate the complex issues of program, site, and form in a specific cultural context. Integrates aspects of architectural theory, building technology, and computation into the design process.
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ARCH - Architecture (Graduate Courses) |
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ARCH 5301 - Special Problems in Architecture 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: College approval. Individual study projects in architecture of special interest to students. May be repeated for credit.
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ARCH 5302 - Product Design Workshop 3 Semester Credit Hours
Introduction to the design and executed construction of a prototypical piece of furniture or other design product using an architectural design process. S.
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ARCH 5303 - Smart Materials 3 Semester Credit Hours
Studies emerging materials and how properties and performances affect design thinking. Investigates advanced technologies facilitating design innovation in building components and their assemblies. S.
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ARCH 5304 - Advanced Architectural Representation 3 Semester Credit Hours
Explores and examines emerging methods of computation as generative tools of the design process in which design intent captured through algorithmic processes and parametric modeling enables design alternatives.
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ARCH 5315 - Systems of Architectural Inquiry 3 Semester Credit Hours
An investigation into the schools of thought and methods of inquiry, including the craft of research with a focus on writing, reading, and critical thinking. F.
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ARCH 5319 - History of American Architecture: Pre-Contact to 1865 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 2311 or approval of instructor. History of American Cultural expression, using buildings as a vehicle for exploring diverse issues including race, class and gender. Time period covers Pre-Contact to 1865. F.
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ARCH 5320 - History of American Architecture: 1865 to the Present 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 2311 or instructor approval. History of American cultural expression, using buildings as a vehicle for exploring diverse issues including race, class and gender. Time period 1865 to present. S.
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ARCH 5321 - Historic Building Technology and Documentation 3 Semester Credit Hours
Survey of techniques of restoration and stabilization of historic buildings; standards of workmanship; traditional methods and new technologies. Survey of documentation techniques and preservation design. S.
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ARCH 5324 - History and Theory of Historic Preservation 3 Semester Credit Hours
Survey of theory and practice of historic preservation and restoration; overview of the history of the preservation movement in the U.S. F.
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ARCH 5325 - Conservation Policies 3 Semester Credit Hours
Survey of federal and state enabling legislation; federal, state, and local policies on historic preservation and urban design, discussion of redevelopment strategies. S.
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ARCH 5333 - Special Studies in the History of Architecture 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ARCH 2311 and ARCH 2315 . Studies in western / nonwestern Architectural history involving written and oral analysis of scholarly sources. Topic varies and may include preservation, class, race and/or gender issues.
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ARCH 5334 - Advanced Architectural Technology II 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 3355 . Provides a conceptual and historical lineage of tools, technologies, and techniques and explores a spectrum of practices in assembly, prototyping, fabrication, and manufacturing in recent development of the area. F, S.
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ARCH 5352 - Computer Applications to Architecture 3 Semester Credit Hours
Survey of digital computer applications to the issues and processes of architecture and planning. May be repeated for credit. F.
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ARCH 5354 - Advanced Architectural Technology I (BIM) 3 Semester Credit Hours
Corequisite: ARCH 5602 . Provides informed design decision making process over systems of architecture through information model building in architecture.
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ARCH 5361 - Architectural Theory Seminar 3 Semester Credit Hours
Architecture as art, science, and a contemporary philosophical concept. Exploration of context and goals. Illustrated lectures. May be repeated for credit.
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ARCH 5362 - Contemporary Architecture Theory: Methods & Analysis I 3 Semester Credit Hours
The first of two courses that examine emerging theoretical issues and design challenges in architecture from the 20th Century to today. F, S.
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ARCH 5363 - Contemporary Architecture Theory: Methods & Analysis II 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ARCH 5362 . The second of two courses that examine emerging theoretical issues and design challenges in architecture from the 20th Century to today, with focus upon global conundrums.
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ARCH 5366 - Evidence-Based Architecture 3 Semester Credit Hours
Historical development and theoretical fundamentals of research based “evidence” in architecture. Challenges and opportunities for different stakeholders. Finding and using “evidence” in design. Case studies. F.
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ARCH 5382 - Urban Theory 3 Semester Credit Hours
An extensive writing course exploring a comprehensive investigation from selected conceptual and philosophical topics based upon the critical relationship between culture and the urban environment. F.
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ARCH 5383 - Infrastructure in the Urban Environment 3 Semester Credit Hours
Addresses the relationship between infrastructure and city form and function in large urban (above 200,000 population) areas. Emphasis is on the city of Houston as a contextual laboratory for learning. S.
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ARCH 5384 - Community Design and Development Resources 3 Semester Credit Hours
Investigation of the development resources available to community and designers emphasizing partnerships and collaboration. S.
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ARCH 5391 - Architectural Internship 3 Semester Credit Hours
Individual study based on approved internship position consisting of a minimum of 300 hours per semester or summer.
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ARCH 5392 - Professional Practice 3 Semester Credit Hours
The principles and practices of architectural business including the discussion of professionalism, administration, management, legalities, and liabilities. Exploration of current, advanced, and complex processes for the delivery of architecture F, S.
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ARCH 5501 - Advanced Architectural Design Studio 5 Semester Credit Hours
Topical studio that explores design, theoretical and/or technological issues that affect current architectural thought and practice. F, S.
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ARCH 5502 - Advanced Architectural Design Studio 5 Semester Credit Hours
Topical studio that explores design and theoretical and/or technological issues that affect current architectural thought and practice. F, S.
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ARCH 5503 - Advanced Architectural Design Studio 5 Semester Credit Hours
Topical studio that explores design, theoretical, and/or technological issues that affect current architectural thought and practice F, S.
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ARCH 5506 - Collaboration Studio 5 Semester Credit Hours
An interdisciplinary studio for the design professions addressing the process and skills necessary for collaboration as well as team-development products. (Field Trip Required) F.
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ARCH 5602 - Integrative Architectural Design Studio 6 Semester Credit Hours
Corequisite: ARCH 5354 . Advanced Architectural Design Studio focused on a Comprehensive Architectural Project based on the development of architectural ideas, methodologies, and strategies in relationship to Building Technologies, Systems, and Materiality.
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ARCH 5622 - Preservation Studio 6 Semester Credit Hours
Research on current preservation issues. Individual projects required.
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ARCH 6000 - Master’s Thesis V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
Involves completing the master’s thesis in architecture under the supervision of a thesis advisor.
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ARCH 7000 - Research V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
Research course in which students will learn and demonstrate the core skills necessary to draft a thesis, or generate an alternative research project.
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ART - Art (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ART 1100 - Introduction to Art 1 Semester Credit Hours
Introduction to art as an academic pursuit with its diverse elements and opportunities, objectives, resources, careers, and achievements. Required of all art majors prior to admission to upper-level courses. Transfer credit acceptable. Offered fall semester only.
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ART 1302 - 2D Design 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARTS 1311] Emphasis upon two-dimensional design; includes the fundamentals of line, color, value, texture, shape, space, and compositional arrangement. Students learn to apply verbal skills needed in advanced visual arts. Outside assignments. AP or portfolio waiver possible. (CL)
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ART 1303 - Drawing I 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARTS 1316] Investigation of a variety of media, techniques, and subjects. Students develop perceptual, descriptive, and verbal skills with consideration of drawing as a conceptual process as well as an end in itself. Outside assignments. AP or portfolio waiver possible.
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ART 1309 - Art Appreciation 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARTS 1301, 1313, 1413] Survey of the visual arts of western and nonwestern cultures with emphasis on understanding art through form, content, and cultural context. Nonmajors and art minors only. Fulfills multicultural and core Creative Arts requirements.
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ART 2099 - Problems in Art V1-3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Explores a specific area of interest in art. May be repeated for credit with a different topic.
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ART 2303 - 3D Design 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARTS 1312] Emphasis on the three-dimensional concept of design. Students learn to apply verbal skills needed in advanced visual arts. Outside assignments. (CL)
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ART 2304 - Drawing II 3 Semester Credit Hours
TCCNS: [ARTS 1317] Prerequisite: ART 1303 (or ARCH 1341 ). Expansion of Drawing I stressing the expressive and conceptual aspects of drawing including developed descriptive imagery, use of color, abstraction, verbal skills, and the nude human figure as a subject. Outside assignments.
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ART 2309 - Technology in the Arts 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ART 1302 and ART 2303 . Introduces students to the Macintosh environment, digital input and output, scanning and preparing presentations, and related ethical issues.
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ART 2388 - Graphic Design Process 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ART 1302 , ART 1303 or by permission of instructor. Offers an introductory look at the professional field of graphic design. Basic concepts of effective visual communication and the creative process will be explored in a variety of contexts. Those interested in becoming a graphic design major will prepare application materials for program acceptance.
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