Bachelor of Architecture/Bachelor of Arts, Plan II Dual Degree Program
The Bachelor of Architecture/Bachelor of Arts, Plan II, dual degree program is sponsored jointly by the School of Architecture and the College of Liberal Arts. The five-year program, which includes summer sessions, offers the academic and professional advantage of a strong liberal arts background.
Students interested in this program should consult the Plan II Program description given in the College of Liberal Arts.
The following outline of courses is a suggested method for simultaneously completing the requirements for both degree programs. Students should consult their advisors, the lists below, and the Bachelor of Arts, Plan II degree program given in the College of Liberal Arts to ensure that their coursework plans will fulfill all requirements of both degrees.
Curriculum
A total of at least 186 hours of coursework is required for this dual degree program.
All students must complete the University's Core Curriculum as well as the courses listed in the following table. In some cases, a course that is required for the dual degree program may also be counted toward the core curriculum; these courses are identified below.
| Requirements | Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Design | ||
| ARC 310K | Design I | 3 |
| ARC 310L | Design II | 3 |
| ARC 323D | Design III Intermediate Studio | 3 |
| ARC 523E | Design IV Intermediate Studio | 5 |
| ARC 523F | Design V Intermediate Studio | 5 |
| ARC 561C | Comprehensive Studio | 5 |
| ARC 561R | Advanced Design (taken four times) | 15 |
| Visual communication | ||
| ARC 311K | Visual Communication I | 3 |
| ARC 311L | Visual Communication II | 3 |
| ARC 221K | Visual Communication III | 2 |
| ARC 361T | Technical Communication | 3 |
| Professional practice | ||
| ARC 362 | Professional Practice | 3 |
| Site design | ||
| ARC 333 | Site Design | 3 |
| Environmental controls | ||
| ARC 334K | Environmental Controls I | 3 |
| ARC 334L | Environmental Controls II | 3 |
| Construction | ||
| ARC 415K | Construction I | 4 |
| ARC 415L | Construction II | 4 |
| ARC 435R | Structures I | 4 |
| ARC 435S | Structures II | 4 |
| ARC 335T | Architectural Details and Materials | 3 |
| History | ||
| ARC 308 | Architecture and Society (meets the visual and performing arts requirement of the core curriculum) | 3 |
| ARC 318K | World Architecture: Origins to 1750 | 3 |
| ARC 318L | World Architecture: The Industrial Revolution to the Present | 3 |
| ARC 342R | Topics in the History of Architecture (taken 3 times. All ARC 342 courses in the series ARC 342C-W may count) | 9 |
| Planning | ||
| ARC 369J | City Architecture | 3 |
| Other Degree Requirements | ||
| E 303C | Plan II World Literature Part I (meets the English composition requirement of the core curriculum) | 3 |
| or T C 303C | Plan II World Literature Part I | |
| E 303D | Plan II World Literature Part II (meets the humanities requirements of the core curriculum) | 3 |
| or T C 303D | Plan II World Literature Part II | |
| Foreign language as specified for Plan II | 16-18 | |
| M 408C | Differential and Integral Calculus (meets the mathematics requirement of the core curriculum) | 4 |
| PHL 610Q | Problems of Knowledge and Valuation | 6 |
| PHY 302K | General Physics Technical Course: Mechanics, Heat, and Sound (physics sequence meets part I of the science and technology requirement of the core curriculum) | 3 |
| or PHY 303K | Engineering Physics I | |
| PHY 105M | Laboratory For Physics 302K, 303K, and 317K | 1 |
| PHY 302L | General Physics Technical Course: Electricity and Magnetism, Light, Atomic and Nuclear Physics | 3 |
| or PHY 303L | Engineering Physics II | |
| PHY 105N | Laboratory For Physics 302L, 303L, and 317L | 1 |
| S S 302C | Honors Social Science: Methods and Theory (meets the social and behavioral sciences requirement of the core curriculum) | 3 |
| or S S 302D | Honors Social Science: Psychology | |
| or S S 302E | Honors Social Science: Anthropology | |
| or S S 302F | Honors Social Science: Economics | |
| T C 302 | First-Year Signature Course: Plan II (meets the first-year signature course requirement of the core curriculum) | 3 |
| T C 358 | Plan II Junior Seminar (taken two times) | 6 |
| T C 660H | Thesis Course: Honors | 6 |
| BIO 301E | Problems in Modern Biology (counts toward part II of the science and technology requirement of the core curriculum) | 3 |
| Natural science elective | 3 | |
| Elective | 3 | |
| Additional coursework to satisfy the core curriculum | 12 | |
| Total Hours | 181-183 | |