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- Required Courses
- Recommended Technical or Unrestricted Electives for Minor Program
- Recommended Unrestricted Electives for Minor Program
- Recommended Internships for Minor Program
- Additional Conditions for AED Minor
Required Courses
The following eight courses are required for all students who wish to earn and complete the Architectural Engineering and Design Minor:
Required Core –– 3 required units
- CIV_ENV 385-1 – Design Studio I
- CIV_ENV 385-2 – Design Studio II
- CIV_ENV 385-3 – Design Studio III
Architectural Seminar –– 1 required unit
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CIV_ENV 395 – Architectural Seminar
History of Design –– Choose 1 unit
- CIV_ENV 220 – Structural Art
- ART_HIST 232 – Introduction to the History of Architecture and Design
Design & Analysis Techniques –– Choose 3 units
- CIV_ENV 387 – Design of Sustainable Urban Districts
- CIV_ENV 386 – High Performance Building Design
- CIV_ENV 368 – Sustainability: The City
- CIV_ENV 325 – Reinforced Concrete Design
- CIV_ENV 323 – Structural Steel Design
- CIV_ENV 352 – Foundation Engineering
- CIV_ENV 395 – Building Physics
- CIV_ENV 395 – Energy Geostructures and Geosystems
Recommended Technical or Unrestricted Electives for MINOR Program
- CIV_ENV 302: Engineering Law
- CIV_ENV 304: Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis
- CIV_ENV 336: Project Scheduling
- DSGN 370: Engineering Portfolio
- PROJ_MGT 441: Sustainability in Construction (1/2 course)
- PROJ_MGT 455: Computer-Integrated Project Delivery (1/2 course)
- DSGN courses
Recommended Unrestricted Electives for MINOR Program
The following could be used as components of theme requirements:
- ART HIST 370 1, 2 Modern Architecture and Design
- Art Theory and Practice (select one course):
- ART 120 Basic Painting or
- ART 125 Basic Drawing or
- ART 140 Basic Sculpture
- Advanced courses in Art Theory and Practice
- History and/or Sociology
- HISTORY 322-1, 2 Development of the Modern American City
- SOCIOL 207 Problems of Cities
- SOCIOL 301 The City: Urbanization and Urbanism
Recommended Internships for minor Program
- Summer experiences related to architecture and/or building design or construction, or
- Participation in co-operative engineering program
- Summer international workshop as available
Additional Conditions for Earning minor
- Maintenance of GPA of 2.0 or above in courses required for this certificate.
- Courses with grades lower than a “C” will not be accepted.
- Complete the Declaration of Petition to Receive the Minor in Architectural Engineering and Design form.
- The declaration form must be completed two weeks before the beginning of the final undergraduate quarter.