The Architecture: Community Equity Design stackable graduate certificate accommodates a growing interest in community equity design among designers and diverse professionals to develop tools that can engage and foster design as a collaborative effort grounded in public interest design methodologies. As a result, students will not only gain expertise in community equity design, they will become better equipped to address the world’s most pressing concerns regarding social, economic, and environmental issues of the built environment. 

As part of this program, students will engage in an off-campus design-research problem, working directly with an approved stakeholder in the region; take on the roles of both citizen and designer, organizing and attending stakeholder meetings, while conducting field-research outside of the classroom setting; and submit a scholarly paper reflecting on lessons learned during their research. 

Additional details

• Degree seekers
• Offered in person on the UT Austin campus

Related Degree

• Architecture (MArch)
• Architecture (MAAD)
• Architecture (PhD)

Graduate Handbook

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Total Hours Required: 9

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
ARC 389	Research in Architecture	3
Hours chosen from:		6
ARC 386M.29	Futures and Cities
ARC 386M.30	Race and Gender by Design
ARC 388R.20	Migratory Urbanism
ARC 388R.22	Cultural Landscape and Ethnographic Methods
ARC 388R.24	African American Experience in Architecture
Total Hours		9