Architecture Degrees Online

Required Architecture Course Descriptions

1st Year Courses
ARCH 121
ARCH 122/132
ARCH 123/133
ARCH 105
ARCH 160

2nd Year Courses
ARCH 251
ARCH 241
ARCH 252
ARCH 242
ARCH 253
ARCH 207

1st, 2nd or 3rd Year Courses
ARCH 217
ARCH 218
ARCH 219

3rd Year Courses
ARCH 351
ARCH 341
ARCH 352
ARCH 342
ARCH 353
ARCH 307

4th Year Courses
ARCH 451
ARCH 452
ARCH 453

4th or 5th Year Courses
ARCH 443
ARCH 420

5th Year Courses
ARCH 481
ARCH 492

1st Year Syllabi
Base Studio Syllabus
Arch 121 Syllabus
Arch 122 Syllabus
Arch 123 Syllabus

Drawing Form
Creating Relationships
Arch 105 Syllabus
Shop Safety Manual
Arch 160 Syllabus
Arch 160 Text

The Architecture Department offers a Bachelor of Architecture degree. This degree program, accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB), is a five year “first professional degree” program, a pre-requisite for licensing as a registered architect in most states. Architecture epitomizes the “learn-by-doing” pedagogy that is fundamental to Cal Poly. The program is rigorous, lab oriented, and sequential in nature and reflects a balance and integration of design and technology – the theoretical and the pragmatic. The fourth year offers qualified students the opportunity to study off-campus. The fifth year is a selected year long project and final exhibit that salutes the architectural creativity of each individual’s extended research and design.

The administration, faculty and staff are committed to the program and its primary emphasis on teaching excellence at the undergraduate level. The unusual size of the program and the diversity of faculty interests and accomplishments offer a vast palette of directions, concerns and issues as backgrounds for studio work.

The location of the program within the College provides cross-disciplinary opportunities in the areas of Landscape Architecture, Construction Management, City & Regional Planning and Architectural Engineering.

Students may request permission to enroll in Master of City and regional Planning (MCRP) graduate level courses during their fourth and fifth years of study. Upon completion of the BArch degree, students are eligible to formally apply for graduate student status in the MCRP program, and if accepted will have already completed a significant portion of the program.

Students in their fourth year of design may apply by July 1st of that year to the College of Business to begin the MBA program during their fifth year. Admissions into the program is competitive and performance on the GMAT is very important. Completion of the Master in Business Administration can be accomplished in one year or less after completing the BArch program depending on the number of graduate courses a student completes during their fifth year in the architecture program.

Fall 2008 Course Offerings

ARCH 551-01(1337) Arthur Chapman, M/W/F 7-10pm
ARCH 561-01(1338) Jens Pohl, T/R 7-10pm
ARCH 580-01(1339) Jens Pohl, Schedule TBA
ARCH 598-01(1340) Jens Pohl, M/T/W/R/F 7-8pm
ARCH 598-02(1341) Arthur Chapman, M/T/W/R/F 6-7pm