ARCH 4601

Ecological Literacy and Design

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course is a design-oriented lecture/seminar course for students who are concerned about the role they play as design professionals in affecting the biophysical world. The course's prime objective is to develop a new worldview founded on a broader sensitivity for things living and an accompanying set of meaningful environmental ethics. The course's secondary objectives are to develop a deeper knowledge of environmental issues, construct conceptual frameworks for analysis of these issues and to demonstrate how ecological knowledge can be applied to design. 

When Offered Spring.

Fees Field trip fee: approximately $25.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

• Develop grounding in the field of ecology as it pertains to the human/nature relationship and the manifest expressions of these ideas through the design of the built environment.
• Demonstrate a greater proficiency in critical thinking through rhetorical analysis and criticism of the readings.
• Display commitment to ethical principles, especially those pertaining to the environment.

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