First Year Curriculum
The first year of the Industrial Design Program focuses on developing core design fundamentals. Industrial design and architectural students work collectively to explore projects in the Architectural Design Studio.
Fall semester projects develop composition, color theory two and three-dimension spatial relationships in addition to basic material usage and manipulation.
The spring semester delves deeper into model making as it relates to the industrial design and architecture fields. This semester’s pedagogy seeks to observe a common ground between the two design curricula.
ARCH 1500: Design Studio I
Cr. 5. (2-9).
Prerequisites: must be architecture or industrial design major and have credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 1100.
Basic principles of design and communication of design.
ARCH1100: Introduction to Architecture and Industrial Design I, II
Cr. 1 per semester. (1-0).
Introduction to architecture and industrial design theory, history, technology, and practice.
ENGL 1303:
[ENGL 1301]
Freshman Composition I
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: score of 240 on the TASP Writing Test or its equivalent. Students who score below the minimum should enroll in ENGL 1300. Credit may not be received for both ENGL 1303 and 1309.
A detailed study of the principles of rhetoric as applied in reading and writing expository essays.
HIST 1376: The United States to 1877
Cr. 3. (2-1).
Credit in both HIST 1376 and HIST 1377 cannot be applied toward a degree. Taught in large lecture and small discussion group format.
The social, economic, and political history of the United States to 1877.
MATH 1330: [MATH 2312 or MATH 2412]
Precalculus Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: credit for or placement out of MATH 1310. Students with prior credit in MATH 1432 may not receive credit for MATH 1330.
Functions, graphs, trigonometry, and analytic geometry.
ARCH 1501: Design Studio II
Cr. 5. (2-9).
Prerequisite: ARCH 1500. Basic principles of design and communication of design. Continuation of ARCH 1500.
ARCH 1101: Introduction to Architecture and Industrial Design I, II
Cr. 1 per semester. (1-0).
Introduction to architecture and industrial design theory, history, technology, and practice.
ENGL 1304:
[ENGL 1302]
Freshman Composition II
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 or equivalent. Credit may not be received for both ENGL 1304 and 1310 or 1370.
A detailed study of the principles of rhetoric as applied to analyzing and writing argumentative and persuasive essays; principles and methods of research, culminating in writing a substantial research paper.
HIST 1378:
[HIST 1302]
The United States Since 1877
Cr. 3. (3-0).
Credit in both HIST 1378 and HIST 1379 cannot be applied toward a degree.
The social, economic, and political history of the United States since 1877.
