(Offered as ARCH 209 and ARHA 209) This course will provide a framework for working through design-centered Architectural Studies thesis and capstone projects, as well as an opportunity for other motivated design students to develop their own project, portfolio, and distinct voice as an innovator. Through a series of rigorous and fast-paced design exercises, students will develop ideas for their own independent projects and produce a well-developed architectural building proposal.

(Offered as ARHA 135, ARCH 135, and EUST 135) This course, a gateway class for the study of art history, introduces the ways that artists and architects imaginatively invented visual language to interpret the world for contemporary patrons, viewers, and citizens in early modern Europe. Painters, printmakers, sculptors and architects in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands created new ways of seeing empirical phenomena and interpreting them, by means of both ancient and new principles of art, science and philosophy and through powerful engagement with the senses.