Design Studio 1

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Intended to familiarize students to ideas, ideologies, and approaches of solving architectural problems in a studio setting.  Through a progressed sequence of exercises concluding in a major semester project, students will be driven to examine the architectural concepts of form, space, and function using both two and three-dimensional exploration.  The studio teaching method is a highly personalized critique of individual student work by the course instructors, other university faculty, as well as periodic assessments of students work by guest faculty and critics.

Goals and Objectives:

• Develop the capacity to THINK SPATIALLY 
• Understand GRAPHIC CONVENTIONS and develop a GRAPHIC FLUENCY 
• Develop the capacity to SPEAK and WRITE about the work in direct ways 
• Understand the BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES that inform design 
• Develop the ability to establish CRITICAL INQUIRY in drawn and made things 
• Develop a repertoire of PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES 

Intro to Architecture

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Drawing for Designers – Drafting

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Construction or working drawing is an introduction for first year students to the various aspects of architectural drawings. The course also includes various rules guiding architectural working drawing details.

Goals and Objectives:

• Prepare students to be able to specifically put their ideas into drawing with utmost comprehension
• Use of techniques readable through a well-studied drawing, detailing and symbols 
• Provide the students with the ability and confidence required to put on paper their ideas and concepts before involving computer aided programs for final production of the respective projects.

Free Hand Drawing

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This course provides a foundation in the principles of drawing without any utensil’s such as rulers and protractors. Students will learn the basics of drawing and composing, including how to create sketch perspectives, assume scale and ability to apply texture and tone into their illustrations through shading.

Goals and Objectives:

• Improve hand-eye coordination
• Learn to observe analyze and express through drawing
• Become proficient in communicating quickly with just a pencil and paper

Calculus

Description:

This course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts and topics related to Calculus such as
definition of derivatives, rules for differentiation, applications of derivatives, definition of the
integral, and applications of the integral.

Goals and Objectives:

• Know and identify the concept of functions, elementary functions and their properties: linear,
  quadratic, trigonometric exponential and logarithmic functions.
• understand and use the definition of derivative , and compute the derivatives using the rules of
  the differentiation.
• understand the concept of integral and use the basic techniques of integration to compute
  integrals.

English Composition 1

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This ESP course is offered to freshmen students of Architecture. It is carefully prepared in order to present vocabulary and terminology related to architecture and engineering in general, needed to study in this department. This course gives students the ability to understand and therefore read and write short paragraphs about different architectural topics. They are also encouraged to seek information on the internet to write brief reports on their favorite architects, styles, buildings and other topics related to their studies. This enables them to convey ideas, concepts and messages clearly and professionally in academic, business and real life situations.

Goals and Objectives:

• Develop the English language skills of reading and writing in the field of Architecture.
• Expose students to the kind of language encountered in the field of Architecture & Urbanism.

Design Studio 2

Description:

A continuation of familiarizing students to ideas, ideologies, and approaches of solving
architectural problems in a studio setting. Through a progressed sequence of exercises
students will be asked to develop their design skills through research and experimentation.
The Studio will be divided in to two major projects. The first will be heavily research based
with an emphasis on abstract conceptualization of a project inspired by the student’s
research. The second part will be a real usable small scale project, designed to give
students their first experience in designing a full small scale usable space with all that is
needed for a human to inhabit. The studio teaching method is a highly personalized critique
of individual student work by the course instructors, other university faculty, as well as
periodic assessments of students work by guest faculty and critics.

Goals and Objectives:

• Develop the capacity to thank spatially.
• Understand graphic conventions and develop a  fluency.
• Develop the capacity to speak and write about the work in direct ways.
• Understand the basic design principles that inform design.
• Develop the ability to establish critical inquiry in drawn and made things.
• Develop a repertoire of presentation techniques.

English Composition 2

Description:

This ESP course is offered to first year students of Architecture. It presents vocabulary and
terminology related to architecture and engineering in general. This gives the student the tools to
use in reading, writing, listening and speaking using professional and correct wording. This enables
them to use the appropriate and precisely correct language to convey, ideas, concepts and
messages clearly and professionally in academic, business and real life situations.

Goals and Objectives:

• Develop the English language skills of reading listening and speaking in the field of
  Architecture and Urbanism.
•  Expose students to the more advanced kind of language encountered in the field of
  Architecture.

History of Architecture

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Model Making

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Students are taught the basics in how to deal with materials like fabriano paper and cardboard in
order to make simple geometric shapes such as a Cube, cone, or cylinder. They will be trained on
the process of first drawing the shapes properly in 2d, then how to cut these shapes, followed by
how to assemble them. After learning the basics, students then progress to other model making
projects which include practical 1:1 scale models, as well as a scaled function project. The course is
aimed to make students aware of how to display ideas, and fine details in their architectural models.

Art Elective 1

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