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食色视频鈥檚 College of Architecture and Construction Management is the only public state institution in Georgia to offer an accredited five-year professional degree: The Bachelor of Architecture. It offers unique educational opportunities for its students including: The Summer Design Workshop, the Focus Studio: a research-based studio with and invited studio critic, and an individually structured Thesis project. The Program also offers students organized travel opportunities within the U.S. and abroad.

The curriculum is divided into two components; the lower division and the upper division. The lower division constitutes the first two years of the program and its curriculum is designed to introduce basic skill sets, fundamentals of design and building technologies. The upper division constitutes the last three years of the program. Its curriculum is designed to enhance the students understanding of the relationship between people and the built environment, the role of technology, structures in comprehensive design, the importance of history and theory to design and introduce the broader challenges of urbanism and design research.

The mission of the Architecture Department is to expand and extend the University鈥檚 mission into the realm of Architecture, preparing students for professional practice in the design, planning, development and stewardship of the built environment. The Architecture Program fosters invention, creativity and craft through hands-on exploration that is the foundation of technological innovation. Moreover, knowledge of cultural diversity, communication, history and criticism is seen as inseparable from the application of such innovation. This holistic process is 鈥渢he making of architecture.鈥�

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College of Architecture and Construction Management

Admission Requirements

Students seeking entry to the lower division of the B.ARCH program as freshmen must first be accepted to 食色视频 and in addition must have:

  • 3.0 High School GPA
  • And either the minimum SAT OR minimum ACT scores:
    • SAT minimums: EBRW 500 and Math 570
    • ACT minimums: 18 English or Reading sub-score, 23 Math sub-score

Current 食色视频 students may apply for a Change of Major to Architecture. The following conditions must be met for acceptance:

  • 24 食色视频 credit hours earned
  • 2.50 食色视频 GPA
  • Ready to take MATH 1113:Precalculus or higher upon acceptance

Transfer students seeking entry to the lower division of the B.ARCH program must first be accepted to 食色视频 and in addition must have:

  • 2.50 College GPA
  • Completed MATH 1111:College Algebra (or higher) and ENGL 1101: English Composition I with a minimum grade of 鈥淐鈥�

Degree Progression Requirements

To progress into upper-division course work students must pass Portfolio Review in conjunction with a profess review of course completion and GPA. Requirements include:

  • A 2.50 minimum university adjusted GPA
  • Meet all ARCH core course requirements of the lower division with a 鈥淐鈥� or higher
  • A 2.50 minimum ARCH course GPA
  • Have completed at least 28 credit hours of General Education Core Curriculum courses, including PHYS 1111: Introductory Physics I and PHYS 1111L: Introductory Physics Laboratory I, required in the program map.
  • Submit a portfolio of work for evaluation with a minimum score 2.50 or higher

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Double Owl Pathways

Recommended IMPACTS Courses

M: Students should take MATH 1113 or higher.

T: Students should take MATH 1179 or higher.

T: Students should take two four-hour laboratory sciences in the Natural Sciences. Students may choose from CHEM 1211/1211L , CHEM 1212/1212L , PHYS 1111/1111L *, PHYS 1112/1112L , PHYS 2211/2211L *, PHYS 2212/2212L, BIOL 1107/1107L , or BIOL 1108/1108L.*Students cannot take both PHYS 1111/L and PHYS 2211/L nor PHYS 1112/L and PHYS 2212/L.

Sample Classes

  • This course will explore theoretical and practical frameworks that inform architecture. Relevant theoretical and practical issues will be presented and discussed, allowing students to understand how fundamental parameters in design, including formal, spatial, and phenomenal factors, influence decision-making and inform critical thinking. Students shall be introduced to social and ethical stewardship that center on sustainability and socially-engaging designs. 
  • This course offers lecture and practicum. It introduces selection criteria of materials and their properties relative to structural and enclosure systems. Emphasis is placed on wood, steel, masonry, and concrete structural systems. Enclosure Systems are explored in relation to various applications of existing and new materials and finishes that building systems entail within the context of sustainability.
  • This course examines historic and current trends of urban design, development and growth. Diverse socio-economic-political and spatial issues that shape and continuously transform the physical fabric of cities, metropolitan centers, and regions are the focus of this course. The course requires critical and applied assignments, through which the students explore and understand theoretical and applied underpinnings of wide-ranging and diverse urban forms and practices.
  • This course offers lecture and practicum. It introduces Standard Building Code, N.F.P.A. 101 and A.D.A and / or International Building Code. Emphasis is placed on theory of building safety, code document organization and the application of codes to actual buildings. The learning of codes is further extended by applying the code knowledge to producing an actual set of technical [contract] documentation of an assigned architectural project.