Program Description
Certain CABE graduate programs require that a student choose a concentration to establish a focus area within the primary discipline. Students enrolled in a master’s program that does not require a concentration may elect to declare a concentration in order to pair their major discipline with another architecture related field. A concentration allows students to group electives together in a meaningful way, providing a set of courses that provides supplemental study in a particular subject area. Options for graduate concentrations are determined by the academic programs and consist of a minimum of nine (9) credits in the subject area. Guidelines for available concentrations are below:
- A student may not use the same course for credit in both the primary discipline and area of concentration. In other words, only general elective credits can be applied to the concentration.
- Concentrations typically consist of at least one required course, plus a selection of courses from which the student may choose.
Any substitute elective course from within the concentration must be approved by the program director of the area of concentration.
Construction Management, 9 Credits
This concentration introduces construction management concepts and principles as applied to contemporary practice and investigates the intersecting roles of construction manager, architect, client, and general contractor. Topics encompass planning, programming and documentation from pre-construction to project close-out; legal aspects relative to environmental protection, contract documents; insurance and bonds; labor relations and inspection; project control; heavy construction skills and ethics; and the development of analytical and communication skills.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Select three of the following: | 9 | |
| CMGT 607 | Intro to Construction Proj Mgt | 3 |
| CMGT 609 | Construction Site Operations | 3 |
| CMGT 401 | Codes and Specifications | 3 |
| CMGT 614 | Materials & Mthds of Construc | 3 |
| CMGT 618 | Heavy Const Principle&Practice | 3 |
| Total Credits | 24 | |
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 9 Credits
This concentration in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) provides students with the opportunity to learn and apply advanced spatial techniques and spatial thinking to various disciplines related to design of the built environment. Courses span introduction to advanced concepts and include desktop as well as internet technology
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| GEOD 610 | Introduction to GIS | 3 |
| Select two of the following: | 6 | |
| Adv GIS:Urbn Spctl Anlytcs 1 (Fall) | ||
| Adv GIS: Urb Sptial Anlytcs II (Fall) | ||
| Inter GIS Tech for Design &Dev (Fall) | ||
| Total Credits | 9 | |
Historic Preservation/Urban Revitalization, 9 Credits
This concentration provides a foundation in the field of historic preservation. Courses cover contemporary practice and fieldwork, urban revitalization and sustainability issues, building conservation, methods of archival research, standards for documentation, American architectural traditions, as well as design considerations in the adaptive reuse of historic structures.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MHP 621 | Issues of Contemporary Preserv | 3 |
| Select two of the following: | 6-7 | |
| Uncovering the Past: Tools, Me | ||
| Architectural Forensic and Doc | ||
| Building Conservation | ||
| Rest & Rehab of Modernst Bldgs | ||
MHP 672 | ||
MHP 671 | ||
| Total Credits | 9-10 | |
Interior Architecture, 9 Credits
This concentration introduces students to both theory and application of interior architecture in the built environment. Students will be grounded in the methodologies of interior architecture, focus on the design and construction of the built environment through an interiors perspective, consider how human behavior influences the built environment and consider how the well-being of humans and the natural environment influences interior design. Students will also learn how the interaction of space, form, light, color, materiality and furniture transforms our lived experience in buildings.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Select three of the following: | 9 | |
| Hist of Design 2 for Int Arch | ||
| Vis 4: Constuction Documention | ||
| Text & Materials for Interiors | ||
| Interior Building Technology (interior detailing) | ||
| Light and Color (lighting design) | ||
| Furniture Design | ||
| Design 2 | ||
IARP 601 | ||
| Design 4 for Interior Arch | ||
| Total Credits | 9 | |
Real Estate Development, 9 Credits
This concentration introduces the economic, social and physical issues inherent in environmentally and fiscally sustainable real estate and land-use development. Through real-world case studies presented by leading developers, coursework encompasses market analysis and valuation, finance and investment, legal issues of ownership and land-use, public-private partnerships, urban regeneration and adaptive reuse, construction science and management, in addition to multiple design and development paradigms and their long-term local, national, and global impacts. Sustainable strategies inform a curriculum sensitive both to the ethical dimension of development and to the parameters of a capital-driven market.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MRE 601 | Sustain Real Estate Dev Proc | 3 |
| Select two of the following: | 6 | |
| Case Study Studio:UrbanRevital | ||
| Case Study:Sust Afford Housing | ||
| Market Analysis and Valuation | ||
| Real Eastate Fin & Investment | ||
| Public Private Partnerships | ||
| Real Estate Law & Eth Pract | ||
| Total Credits | 9 | |
Sustainable Design, 9 Credits
The concentration introduces students to the theory of sustainability and how it is applied in the built environment. Students will be grounded in the methodologies of sustainable design, learn to measure, predict and design for thermal comfort, adaptable opportunities and resilience across scales. Students will also learn how to design and calculate sustainable systems, and learn to evaluate, compare, perform life cycle analyses of materials.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Select three of the following: | 9 | |
| Princ & Methods of Sust Design (Fall or Spring) | ||
| Adaptive & Resilient Dsgn Sdio (Fall online) | ||
| Sustainable Building Systems (Spring online) | ||
| Life Cycle Assess & Circ Ecnmy | ||
| Total Credits | 9 | |
Sustainable Leadership, 9 Credits
This concentration prepares students to design and deliver sustainability initiatives in current or future organizations. With the curriculum’s project-based approach, students will build vital skills in problem scoping, systems modeling, solution framing and change management and immediately apply these skills to the sustainability challenges facing assigned organizations or clients.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Select three of the following: | 9 | |
| Princ & Methods of Sust Design | ||
| Env Imp Analysis and Sys Think | ||
| Models & Metrics for Sust Orgs | ||
| Sust Adv & Chg Mgmt | ||
| Total Credits | 9 | |