Courses

ARCH 150 - Discovering Architecture (3 Credits)
Introduction to architecture and design studio education. The course examines fundamental design principles and skills related to architecture. The design studio projects apply ideas and concepts introduced in lectures, readings and onsite visits. The design studio projects are both analytic and synthetic in nature. The explicit goals of the course are: To explore the discipline of architecture; To promote visual thinking and representational skills; To develop analytic design thinking skills; To learn some of the conventions of architectural representation; To enhance cultural awareness of architecture and design.

 

ARCH 170 - Design Thinking and Architecture (3 Credits)
Examines conceptual, perceptual, behavioral, and technical aspects of the built environment, and methods of analysis, problem-solving, and design implementation.

 

ARCH 171 - Design Thinking and Making (3 Credits)
Examines iterative design processes and critical thinking skills through active learning and design thinking methodologies to solve problems and apply design as a lens of inquiry and exploration. Students will understand Design Thinking through interactive and experiential learning.

 

ARCH 200- Design Media and Representation I (3 Credits)
Study of architectural representation in physical and digital design media. Examine visual literacy and visual communications through applied drawing, modeling and visual making to explore the role of design media and representation in design and design thinking.

 

ARCH 201 - Elements and Principles of Architecture (1 Credits)
Survey of fundamental elements and principles of architecture and architectural education. Frames study of architecture as a profession, discipline and critical practice.

 

ARCH 225 - History of World Architecture I (3 Credits)
Pre-1500 World Architecture survey course - History of Architecture structured to develop critical thinking and visual literacy with regard to the worldwide legacy of design thinking and cultural production through architecture.

 

ARCH 226- History of World Architecture II (3 Credits)
Post-1500 - World Architecture survey course - History of Architecture structured to develop critical thinking and visual literacy with regard to the legacy of design thinking and cultural production through architecture.

 

ARCH 270- Design in Practice (3 Credits)
Case studies and hands-on design projects ranging in scale from a product to a building to give students insight into the process by which architects work both individually and collaboratively to put disciplinary knowledge and expertise into practice to shape our built environment.

A Fearless Ideas Course from the Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (AIE).
A General Education I-Series (SCIS) and Scholarship in Practice (DSSP) course. 

 

ARCH 271 - People, Planet, and Profit: Building Sustainable Places (3 Credits)
An introduction to the four disciplines represented in the School: architecture and urban design, community planning, historic preservation, and real estate development, that work to create a more sustainable environment for the future to create a more sustainable environment for the future using our interpretation of the quadruple bottom line: socio-cultural, economic, environmental, and design sustainability. Students will be provided with an understanding of the fundamental scholarship and processes of each of these disciplines and examine the intersections between them. Additionally, they will learn by applying the approaches of the four disciplines through a series of field studies.

 

ARCH272 Sustainability at College Park (3 Credits)
Explore the ways and the degrees to which University of Maryland, College Park campus master planning and operations incorporate principles of sustainability including smart growth, LEED and other building rating systems, higher education rating systems, sustainable agriculture and transportation planning. Among other subjects, students will learn about the Campus and the City of College Park and survey the relationship between local, national and global sustainability concerns. Students will learn about the University's Climate Action Plan and the roles, and extent to which, the UMD Office of Sustainability and other campus units are helping develop a carbon-neutral and resource-efficient campus infrastructure.

 

ARCH289 Independent Studies in Architectural Sustainability (1-4 Credits)
Independent Studies in Architectural Sustainability. Proposed work must have a faculty sponsor and receive approval of the Architecture Program Curriculum Committee.

 

ARCH 300 - Design Media and Representation II (3 Credits)
Study of architectural representation in physical and digital design media. Examine visual communications and speculative visual studies through applied drawing, modeling and making to explore expanded roles of representation in design and design thinking.

 

ARCH 386 - Experiential Learning (1 - 6 Credits)
Learning experience tied to internship of specified duration with targeted learning outcomes.

 

ARCH 400 - Architecture Design Studio I (6 Credits)
Introduction to architectural design with particular emphasis on conventions and principles of architecture, visual and verbal communication skills, formal analysis, design process, spatial composition, architectural promenade, basic program distribution, and elementary constructional and environmental responses.

 

ARCH 401 - Architecture Design Studio II (6 Credits)
Continuation of ARCH 400 with introduction to building typology, urban and contextual issues, design of the vertical surface, and architectural interiors.

 

ARCH 402 - Architecture Design Studio III (6 Credits)
Architectural design studio with emphasis on building and facade typologies, the development of architectural promenade and sequence, public and/or civic infill buildings dependent upon the architectural promenade, and urban housing types of varying densities. The architect's obligations to urban context are explored in many dimensions including historical, typological, and physical.

 

ARCH 403 - Architecture Design Studio IV (6 Credits)
Investigations into the relationship between the man-made and the natural world including introductory issues of assembly and material value. Design of the site and the building are combined into an integral process delimiting and probing the boundaries of each and exploring their reciprocal relationship. The architect's obligations to the natural and urban contexts are explored in many dimensions including historical, typological, environmental, and physical.

 

ARCH 404 - Graduate Architecture Design Studio I (6 Credits)
Introduction to architectural design with particular emphasis on conventions and principles of architecture , visual and verbal communication skills, formal analysis, design process, spatial composition, architectural promenade, basic program distribution, and elementary constructional and environmental responses.

 

ARCH 405 - Graduate Architecture Design Studio II (6)
Architectural design studio with emphasis on building and facade typologies, the development of architectural promenade and sequence, public and/or civic infill buildings dependent upon the architectural promenade, and urban housing types of varying densities. The architect's obligations to urban context are explored in many dimensions including historical, typological, and physical. 

 

ARCH 406 - Graduate Architectural Design Studio III (6 Credits)
Investigations into the relationship between the man-made and the natural world including introductory issues of assembly and material value. Design of the site and the building are combined into an integral process delimiting and probing the boundaries of each and exploring their reciprocal relationship. The architect's obligations to the natural and urban contexts are explored in many dimensions including historical, typological, environmental, and physical.

 

ARCH 407 - Graduate Architecture Design IV (6 Credits)
Studio problems and theories concentrating on urbanism and urban design techniques. Issues and sites range from high-density urban in-fill to suburban and greenfield development in American and other contexts. Studio theories explore such topics as Contextualism, Neo-Traditional design, Transit Oriented Development, density, sustainable development, building typology, and street design.

 

ARCH 408 - Special Topics - Architecture Design Studio (6 Credits)
Design Studio course to examine topical problems in architecture and urban design.

 

ARCH 420 - History of American Architecture (3 Credits)
American architecture from the late 17th to the 21st century.

 

ARCH423 – History of Roman Architecture
Survey of Roman architecture from 500 B.C. To A.D. 325.

 

ARCH 425 - History of World Architecture I (3 Credits)
Pre-1500 World Architecture survey course - History of Architecture structured to develop critical thinking and visually literacy with regard to the worldwide legacy of design thinking and cultural production through architecture. Structured to nurture critical thinking and visually literacy with regard to the worldwide legacy of architecture. The work in the course will involve the evaluation of sources and arguments in reading architectural history. Architecture will be framed relative to ways of thinking, religious beliefs, cultural heritage, and cultural values.

 

ARCH 426 - History of World Architecture II (3 Credits)
Post-1500 - History of Architecture survey course - History of Architecture structured to develop critical thinking and visually literacy with regard to the worldwide legacy of design thinking and building innovation in architecture. Structured to nurture critical thinking and visually literacy with regard to the worldwide legacy of architecture. The work in the course will involve the evaluation of sources and arguments in reading architectural history. Architecture will be framed relative to ways of thinking, religious beliefs, cultural heritage, and cultural values.

 

ARCH 427 - Theories of Architecture (3 Credits)
Survey of architectural theories - theories of architectural design, representation and urban design from antiquity to the present day.

 

ARCH 428C - Selected Topics in Architectural History; City Beautiful Architecture and Urbanism in USA (3 Credits)
This course covers the period following the World’s Columbian Exhibition of 1893 up to WW II.  The architecture and urbanism of this period represented a zenith of the Beaux Arts philosophy of design represented most cogently by the McMillan Plan for Washington, DC (1902) and its many antecedents across the United States. 

 

ARCH 428F - Selected Topics in Architectural History; History of Modern Architecture
No course description provided.

 

ARCH428E - Selected Topics in Architectural History; Global Renaissance
Restriction: permission of department. The course 'Global Renaissance' explores the architecture and urban cultures that flourished under the wide-reaching concept of the Renaissance, during the period ranging from 1450 to 1700. The Renaissance is a term that we usually associate to northern Italy, where it originated. However, the phenomenon of the Renaissance coincided with an age of global exploration, commerce, trade, and colonialism, all of which expanded the ideas of the Renaissance to every corner of Europe, the Mediterranean, the New World, and beyond. During the course we will work with UMD s MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities), to create a digital humanities platform (a web page) in which we will showcase the work you will produce throughout the course. The main characteristic of the digital humanities is to employ technological tools to present humanities subjects under new light. In this case, the work will take the form of 3-D architectural models, use of GIS tools, image editing, or other digital-technological tools to produce a public pedagogical resource about the Global Renaissance.

 

ARCH428N - Selected Topics in Architectural History; Medieval Architecture
Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean produced a unique building culture in which design was flexible and deeply grounded in the act of construction. In this class, we will trace the diversity of Byzantine, Islamic, Romanesque and Gothic architecture through select case studies. Students will learn to unravel buildings in terms of phases of construction, relate each phase to a different social or political context, and describe the structural technologies that medieval masons rightly flaunted.

 

ARCH428T - Selected Topics in Architectural History; American Building Typologies
Examines key public, institutional, commercial, and residential building types since the founding of the nation to 1980. Such an approach to American architecture facilitates in-depth studies of like-purposed buildings, focusing on function and design through time. Categories could include state capitals, jails and prisons, places of worship, libraries, art academies and cultural institutions, railroad stations, banks, stores and so on. Students gain additional perspective by examining the buildings' historical, cultural, and social contexts.

 

ARCH 430 - Measuring Sustainability in Architecture (3 Credits)
Studies metrics of sustainability as included in rating standards, including LEED. All students will take the LEED GA test.

  

ARCH 443 - Visual Communication For Architects (3 Credits)
Investigation of the relationship between drawing from life and architectural drawing, the conventions of architectural drawing and the role of architectural drawing as a means to develop, communicate, and generate architectural ideas.

 

ARCH 445 - Visual Analysis of Architecture (3)
Study of visual principles of architectural and urban precedents through graphic analysis. Exercises include on-site observation, documentation, and analysis. Focuses on the development of an architect's sketchbook as a tool for life-long learning.

 

ARCH448M - Selected Topics in Visual Studies in Architecture; Applied Model Making
No course description provided.

 

ARCH 458 Selected Topics in Urban Design (3 Credits)
Selected Topics in Urban Design

 

ARCH 460 Site Analysis and Design (3 Credits)
Principles and methods of site analysis; the influence of natural and man-made site factors on site design and architectural form.

 

ARCH 462 - Methods & Materials of Building Construction (3 Credits)
Building Construction methods and materials are examined through case studies to explore the means and techniques applied to the material execution of buildings and BIM. Focus on an understanding of the organization of the design and construction process and awareness of building and zoning codes, material systems and types.

 

ARCH 463 - Sustainable Systems in Architecture (3 Credits)
Sustainable systems in architecture examines the nature of the global problem, environmental economics, understanding the local environment, bioclimatic design, solar control and shading, solar access zoning, residential scale energy design issues, commercial scale energy design issues and urban scale energy design issues.

 

ARCH 464 - Architectural Structures I (3 Credits)
This course covers the basic principles of architectural structures, including the influence of geometric, sectional, and material properties related to flexure and shear in beam and framed systems; vector mechanics with application to analysis of trusses, catenaries, and arches; diagrammatic analysis of beams for bending moment, shear, and deflection as well as the study of structural framing systems for vertical and lateral loads.

 

ARCH 465 - Architectural Structures II (3 Credits)
The basic principles of elastic behavior for different materials such as wood, steel, concrete, and composite materials and compares the properties and applications of materials generally will be covered. It investigates cross sectional stress and strain behavior in flexure and in shear, and torsion as well as the stability of beams and columns. The qualitative behavior of combined stresses and fracture in materials is also covered.

 

ARCH 466 - Environmental Systems in Architecture (3 Credits)
Environmental systems in architecture presents the theory, quantification, and architectural design implications for heating ventilating and air conditioning, water and waste, fire protection, electricity, illumination, acoustics, and vertical transportation.

 

ARCH 467 - Integrated Project Delivery (3 Credits)
Integrated Project Delivery is examined from design to implementation through an exploration of building construction, architectural design, and construction management perspectives.

 

ARCH468G - Selected Topics in Architecture; Building Craft & The Architectural Detail
No course description provided.

 

ARCH468K - Selected Topics in Architecture; The Entrepreneurial Architect
Cross-listed with ARCH668K. Credit only granted for ARCH468K or ARCH668K.

 

ARCH468N - Selected Topics in Architecture; Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic
No course description provided.

 

ARCH468P - Selected Topics in Architecture; Resume and Portfolio Design
Cross-listed with ARCH668P. Credit only granted for ARCH468P or ARCH668P.

 

ARCH 470 - Computer Applications in Architecture (3 Credits)
Introduction to computer utilization, with emphasis on architectural applications.

 

ARCH 472 - Building Information Modeling Communication and Collaboration (3 Credits)
Building Information Modeling is explored as pertains to collaboration and communication in the design and construction of buildings and building systems. Practical and empirical learning using BIM software and case studies of real world projects and construction scenarios.

 

ARCH478L - Selected Topics in Architecture; Architecture and Disaster Response in Historic Cities
No course description provided.

 

ARCH478O - Selected Topics in Architecture; Three-Dimensional Digital Documentation: Using Laser-based Measurement Systems
This course focuses on the fundamentals of documenting components of the built environment and the landscapes in which they are located. It focuses on the use of lasers to calculate 3-D measurements at various scales, from objects, to buildings, and landscapes. It will cover data management and archiving, field documentation processes, and post-processing of scan point clouds. This includes the production of deliverables for clients or project partners, such as plans, elevations, orthoimagery, and cleaned exported point clouds in formats that are compatible with Autodesk software and other CAD or rendering software platforms. This course is intended for students working in fields that rely on accurately documenting components of the built environment in three dimension, including architects, engineers, preservationists, archaeologists, or digital designers.

 

ARCH478T - Selected Topics in Architecture; Ecological Design Thinking
No course description provided.

 

ARCH478U - Selected Topics in Architecture; The Black Experience & The American Built Environment
This course will explore the historical and contemporary relationships between the American Black Population and the design, planning, land policy and use of American land.

 

ARCH478Z - Selected Topics in Architecture; Environmental Psychology
Focuses on the role of design in human behavior, exploring people-place relationships centered on human physical, physiological, psychological, sociological, and intellectual responses to elements of the built environment.

 

ARCH 600- Integrated Design Studio V (6 Credits)
Integrated and comprehensive building and site design. Course content bridges the gap between design and technology, between practice and education, in a studio setting. Explorations include the integration of conceptual and technical aspects of architectural form and assembly, highlighting the ways in which multiple layers of a building design are developed, coordinated and resolved.

 

ARCH 601 - Topical Design Studio VI (6 Credits)
Topical architectural design studio with concentration on advanced topical inquiry addressing but not limited to: architectural competitions, sustainable design, theoretical/conceptual issues, programmatic, contextual, and/or technical issues.

 

ARCH 611 - Advanced Architecture Technology Seminar (3 Credits)
Technology in design of buildings. Application of technological issues in building design; integration of technology in architecture; technology as a form determinant in architecture; other conceptual and philosophical issues related to the application of technology in the design, construction, and use of buildings.

 

ARCH628C - Selected Topics in Architectural History; History of Structure and Construction
No course description provided.

 

ARCH628E - Selected Topics in Architectural History; Global Renaissance
The course 'Global Renaissance' explores the architecture and urban cultures that flourished under the wide-reaching concept of the Renaissance, during the period ranging from 1450 to 1700. The Renaissance is a term that we usually associate to northern Italy, where it originated. However, the phenomenon of the Renaissance coincided with an age of global exploration, commerce, trade, and colonialism, all of which expanded the ideas of the Renaissance to every corner of Europe, the Mediterranean, the New World, and beyond. During the course we will work with UMD s MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities), to create a digital humanities platform (a web page) in which we will showcase the work you will produce throughout the course. The main characteristic of the digital humanities is to employ technological tools to present humanities subjects under new light. In this case, the work will take the form of 3-D architectural models, use of GIS tools, image editing, or other digital-technological tools to produce a public pedagogical resource about the Global Renaissance.

 

ARCH628U - Selected Topics in Architectural History; A survey of the history of Latin American Architecture and Urbanism in Context
No course description provided.

 

ARCH628N - Selected Topics in Architectural History; Medieval Architecture
Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean produced a unique building culture in which design was flexible and deeply grounded in the act of construction. In this class, we will trace the diversity of Byzantine, Islamic, Romanesque and Gothic architecture through select case studies. Students will learn to unravel buildings in terms of phases of construction, relate each phase to a different social or political context, and describe the structural technologies that medieval masons rightly flaunted.

 

ARCH628T - Selected Topics in Architectural History; American Building Typologies
Examines key public, institutional, commercial, and residential building types since the founding of the nation to 1980. Such an approach to American architecture facilitates in-depth studies of like-purposed buildings, focusing on function and design through time. Categories could include state capitals, jails and prisons, places of worship, libraries, art academies and cultural institutions, railroad stations, banks, stores and so on. Students gain additional perspective by examining the buildings' historical, cultural, and social contexts.

 

ARCH 629 - Graduate Independent Studies in Architectural History (1 - 4 Credits)
Content varies, students work with faculty advisor to create coursework.

 

ARCH 635 - Seminar in the History of Modern Architecture (3 Credits)
Advanced investigation of historical problems in modern architecture.

 

ARCH 654 - Urban Development and Design Theory (3 Credits)
Advanced investigation into the history, and practice of urban design, planning, and development.

 

ARCH 655 - Urban Design Seminar (3 Credits)
Advanced investigation into problems of analysis and evaluation of the design of urban areas, spaces, and complexes with emphasis on physical and social considerations; effects of public policies through case studies. Field observations.

 

ARCH668G- Advanced Selected Topics in Architecture; Building Craft & The Architectural Detail
No course description provided.

 

ARCH668K- Advanced Selected Topics in Architecture; The Entrepreneurial Architect
Cross-listed with ARCH468K. Credit only granted for ARCH468K or ARCH668K.

 

ARCH668N - Advanced Selected Topics in Architecture; Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic
No course description provided.

 

ARCH668P - Advanced Selected Topics in Architecture; Resume and Portfolio Design
Cross-listed with ARCH468P. Credit only granted for ARCH468P or ARCH668P.

 

ARCH678O - Advanced Selected Topics in Architecture; Three-Dimensional Digital Documentation: Using Laser-based Measurement Systems
This course focuses on the fundamentals of documenting components of the built environment and the landscapes in which they are located. It focuses on the use of lasers to calculate 3-D measurements at various scales, from objects, to buildings, and landscapes. It will cover data management and archiving, field documentation processes, and post-processing of scan point clouds. This includes the production of deliverables for clients or project partners, such as plans, elevations, orthoimagery, and cleaned exported point clouds in formats that are compatible with Autodesk software and other CAD or rendering software platforms. This course is intended for students working in fields that rely on accurately documenting components of the built environment in three dimension, including architects, engineers, preservationists, archaeologists, or digital designers.

 

ARCH 678T - Advanced Selected Topics in Architecture; Ecological Design Thinking (3 Credits)
Themes and topics of this course draw from the etymology and definition of the word “ecology,” which contains aspects of house, relationships, the living environment, and systems. Design thinking is itself systems thinking—in which many variables and scales, requirements and ideas are interrelated in a coherent whole. We study big-picture concepts and frameworks as well as cutting-edge applications, while exploring ways to be effective change agents.

 

ARCH678U - Advanced Selected Topics in Architecture; The Black Experience & The American Built Environment
This course will explore the historical and contemporary relationships between the American Black Population and the design, planning, land policy and use of American land.

 

ARCH678Z - Advanced Selected Topics in Architecture; Environmental Psychology
Focuses on the role of design in human behavior, exploring people-place relationships centered on human physical, physiological, psychological, sociological, and intellectual responses to elements of the built environment.

 

ARCH 679 - Advanced Independent Studies in Architecture; Independent Study in Architecture (1 - 4 Credits)
Content varies, students work with faculty advisor to create coursework.

 

ARCH 700 - Urban Design Studio VII (6 Credits)
Studio problems and theories concentrating on urbanism and urban design techniques. Issues and sites range from high density urban in-fill to suburban and greenfield development in American and other contexts. Studio theories explore such topics as Contextualism, Neo-Traditional design, Transit-Oriented Development, density, sustainable development building typology, and street design.

 

ARCH 770 - Professional Practice of Architecture (3 Credits)
Project management, organizational, legal, economic and ethical aspects of architecture.

 

ARCH 797 - Thesis Proseminar (3 Credits)
Directed research and preparation of thesis program. 

  

ARCH 798 - Thesis in Architecture (3 Credits)
Complements the research of ARCH 799, with presentation of the design research to student's thesis committee.

 

ARCH 799 - Masters Thesis Research (1 - 6 Credits)
Development of master's thesis.

First-time registrants for ARCH 799 must take 6 credit hours.  Should a thesis extend into an additional term, students must register for 1 credit hour of coursework.

URSP250 The Sustainable City: Exploring Opportunities and Challanges (3 Credits)
An exploration, through an interdisciplinary approach, of a number of issues related to making cities more sustainable in terms of environmental protection, economic opportunity, and social justice. The course assist students to develop skills in critical analysis and systems thinking and to use those skills in analyzing sustainability related problems and potential solutions, and to expand students' understanding of the political implications of crafting and moving towards a sustainable urban future.

 

URSP372 Diversity and the City (3 Credits)
Exploration of the different needs of diverse economic, racial/ethnic, and gender groups that live and work in cities, the historical background of differences, the impact of societal structures and group cultures, and how public and private policies do and can affect different groups.

 

URSP600 Research Design and Application (3 Credits)
Techniques in urban research, policy analysis, and planning. Survey of descriptive and normative models. Objective and subjective measurements. Emphasis on assumptions of research.
Formerly: URSP602.

 

URSP601 Research Methods (3 Credits)
Use of measurement, statistics, quantitative analysis, and micro-computers in urban studies and planning.
Recommended: An undergraduate-level statistics course; and familiarity with Microsoft Excel.
Formerly: URBS601.

 

URSP603 Land Use Planning: Concepts and Techniques (3 Credits)
Land use concepts and definitions: legal context for planning; markets and planning; planning for housing; community services, employment, utilities, and transportation; zoning; subdivision regulations; growth management; plan implementation.
Credit Only Granted for: URSP603, URBS680, or URBS603.
Formerly: URBS603.

 

URSP604 The Planning Process (3 Credits)
Legal framework for U.S. planning; approaches to the planning process; tools and technology; systems thinking; defining problems and issues; soliciting goals and values; developing and making good presentations; public participation; developing and evaluating alternatives and scenarios; plan evaluation; developing RFPs.
Credit Only Granted for: URSP604, URBS656, or URBS604.
Formerly: URBS604.

 

URSP605 Planning History and Theory (3 Credits)
Examination of key, selected major events and issues in U.S. planning history and the development of the Yplanning profession; exploration of major themes in planning theory and practical applications of them; and analysis of the relationship of history and theory.

 

URSP606 Planning Economics (3 Credits)
Resource allocation in a market economy, the nature of market failures, and the justifications for public sector intervention. The limits and possibilities for planning in a market economy.
Restriction: Must not have completed URSP630.
Credit Only Granted for: URSP606, URBS606, or URBS630.
Formerly: URBS606.

 

URSP631 Transportation and Land Use (3 Credits)
The interrelationship between transportation and land use. What are the impacts of various transportation modes on land use patterns, and how can land use solutions influence travel demand. The integration of transportation into master planning and site impact analysis. Using quantitative methods to understand the land use and transportation linkage.

 

URSP640 Growth Management and Environmental Planning (3 Credits)
Topics associated with growth management, defined as policies and strategies by which governments attempted to control the amount, location, pace, pattern and quality of development within their jurisdictions.

 

URSP661 City and Regional Economic Development Planning (3 Credits)
Spatial patterns of employment and populations, and models of urban and regional growth and decline. Focus on application of economic theory and urban planning techniques to issues of local economic development and planning.
Credit Only Granted for: URSP661, URBS440, or URBS661.
Formerly: URBS661.

 

URSP664 Real Estate Development for Planners (3 Credits)
Planning, Architectural and Public Policy students are introduced to the real estate development process primarily from the point of view of the private entrepreneurial developer. It will include the steps in undertaking a real estate development from the initial concept to the property management and final disposition, the basic financial and tax concepts underlying real estate development, a review of national housing policy,including public-private partnerships, and solving specific real estate development problems using financial spread-sheets.
Prerequisite: URSP606.
Credit Only Granted for: URSP664 or URSP688F.
Formerly: URSP688F.

 

URSP671 Politics and Planning (3 Credits)
Examination of the practice of planning as a technical and a practice role. Attitudes of planners toward plan implementation. Development of effective roles for professional planners.
Formerly: URSP691.

 

URSP673 Community Development (3 Credits)
Examines and identifies planning approaches and methods that can help communities - particularly low income communities - become stronger, more cohesive, and more capable of serving their interests. Examines urban poverty; urban politics; history, concepts and practice of community development; and community development approaches and methods.

 

URSP688 Recent Developments in Urban Studies (2-6 Credits)
Examination of selected current aspects of urban affairs and planning, including, for example, <"new towns"> in the United States or neighborhood preservation in Russia. Location of course may be off-campus.
Formerly: URBS688.

 

URSP705 Summer Community Planning Studio I (4 Credits)
Intensive community planning group field work, typically five days a week for four weeks. Often outside the USA. Application of class work to actual planning and policy challenges. Students seeking to meet the URSP studio requirement must also take URSP 706.
Restriction: Permission of instructor.

 

URSP706 Summer Community Planning Studio II (2 Credits)
Intensive analysis and report-preparation of work completed in URSP 705. Held in College Park. Students seeking to meet the URSP studio requirement must also take URSP 705.
Restriction: Permission of instructor.

 

URSP708 Community Planning Studio (2-6 Credits)
The Community Planning Studio is a "capstone" course intended to provide students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to analyze current, pressing planning issues, in a selected community and to produce a report containing recommendations for addressing those issues. In essence, students act as a consulting team for a community client.
Prerequisite: URSP605, URSP604, URSP601, and URSP600; and permission of ARCH-Urban Studies & Planning Program department.
Repeatable to: 6 credits.
Credit Only Granted for: URSP704 or URSP708.
Formerly: URSP704.

 

URSP709 Field Instruction (3-6 Credits)
Students will satisfy a 300-hour internship (20 hours for 15 weeks during the spring, 25 hours a week for 12 weeks during the summer). Suitable internships are approved by the Internship Coordinator or Instructor; they involve a significant amount of planning work (preferably in the student's are of interest) and provide an appropriate on-site supervisor. The Internship Coordinator will assist students in finding a suitable internship, but the ultimate responsibility rests with each student. Whether the internship is paid or not is a matter to be worked out between the student and the organization.
Prerequisite: URSP605, URSP604, and URSP600; or permission of ARCH-Urban Studies & Planning Program department.
Repeatable to: 6 credits.
Credit Only Granted for: URSP703 or URSP709.
Formerly: URSP703.

 

URSP710 Research Seminar: Urban Theory and Issues (3 Credits)
An advanced research seminar for M.A. and M.C.P. students preparing their final research projects.
Prerequisite: 15 credits in URSP courses.
Restriction: Must be in Urban and Regional Planning and Design (Doctoral) program.
Formerly: URBS710.

 

URSP788 Independent Study in Urban Studies and Planning (1-3 Credits)
Directed research and study of selected aspects of urban affairs.
Repeatable to: 6 credits if content differs.
Formerly: URBS788.

 

URSP798 Readings in Urban Studies and Planning (1-3 Credits)
Directed readings in selected aspects of urban affairs and planning.
Repeatable to: 6 credits if content differs.
Formerly: URBS798.

 

URSP799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6 Credits)
Formerly: URBS799.

HISP200 The Everyday and the American Environment (3 Credits)
An introduction to the theories of the everyday within the context of the American built environment. Focuses primarily on the American experience of underrepresented, minority, and/or immigrant communities; both historical and contemporary. Attempts to challenge what is meant by American in describing the American everyday built environment.Jointly offered with HISP615.

HISP319 Special Topics in Historic Preservation (1-6 Credits)
Students will explore technical aspects of preservation taught by practitioners whose expertise are of special benefit to undergraduate students.
Repeatable to: 12 credits.

 

HISP600 History, Theory, and Practice of Historic Preservation (3 Credits)
An introduction to history, theory and practice of historic preservation covered through readings, discussions, presentations, class projects, and field trips.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.

 

HISP611 Historical Research Methods (3 Credits)
Research methods used by professional historic preservationists to identify and record historic structures and sites. Emphasizes inter/multidisciplinary nature of contemporary preservation practice using archival and ethnographic evidence as a basis for establishing significance.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP610 or HISP611.

 

HISP615 The Everyday and the "American" Environment (3 Credits)
An introduction into the theories of the everyday with the context of the American built environment. The course focuses primarily on the American experience of underrepresented, minority, and immigrant communities; both historical and contemporary. The course attempts to challenge what is meant by American in describing the American every day built environment.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program. Also offered as: HISP200.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP615, HISP619E, or HISP200.
Formerly: HISP619E.

 

HISP619 Special Topics in Historic Preservation (1-6 Credits)
Technical aspects of preservation taught by practitioners whose expertise are of special benefit to certificate students.
Repeatable to: 12 credits if content differs.

 

HISP628 Selected Topics in Historic Preservation (3 Credits)
Critical issues in contemporary preservation practice will be examined. Topics will change each year, according to the professor's interests and the relevance of the course topic, and will include such themes as: preservation of the everyday built environment, social and ethnic dimensions of historic preservation practice, and preservation of Modern architecture and landscapes. The course will consist of readings, class, discussions, and a substantial individual research project.
Restriction: Permission of instructor.
Repeatable to: 6 credits if content differs.

 

HISP629 Independent Studies in Historic Preservation (1-3 Credits)
Individual Instruction course.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.

 

HISP630 Preservation Policy and Planning (3 Credits)
An opportunity is provided to look in depth at the national historic preservation program that is the federal, tribal, state, and local (city and county) public sector preservation activities being undertaken in accordance with public policy set by laws, regulations, standards, and guidelines.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP619M or HISP630.
Formerly: HISP619M.

 

HISP635 Social and Ethnic Issues in Historic Preservation Practice (3 Credits)
This seminar course examines the broader social and ethnic dimensions of historic preservation practice that have impacted the field since the "culture wars" of the 1990's. Through weekly case studies of local, international sites, students will explore these issues and apply newly emerging methodologies to their final case study project.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP628E or HISP635.
Formerly: HISP628E.

 

HISP640 Historic Preservation Law, Advocacy and Public Policy (3 Credits)
Introduce students to legal, advocacy, and public policy issues in the field of historic preservation. Student activities will be designed to teach basic working knowledge of relevant legal subjects, including historic preservation ordinances, state and federal preservation statutes, and important constitutional issues.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP619C or HISP640.
Formerly: HISP619C.

 

HISP645 Archaeology and Preservation (3 Credits)
An introduction to issues related to archaeological resources and preservation. Topics will include method and theory in American archaeology, archaeology in support of architectural history, archaeology and the NHPA, archaeological site preservation and conservation, and curation and collections management. Students will have a chance to work at an archaeological site to experience field excavation techniques and challenges, and will visit other archaeological sites and curation facilities in the area.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP619A or HISP645.
Formerly: HISP619A.

 

HISP650 Historic Preservation Studio Workshop (6 Credits)
Students carry out a group preservation project in a local community, from inception and problem formulation through completion. Guided carefully by a faculty team, students will conduct research, interact with communities, perform analyses, and propose solutions for an issue or problem of direct relevance to a local community and client group.
Prerequisite: HISP600; and permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Restriction: Must be in a major in ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.

 

HISP655 American Vernacular Architecture (4 Credits)
History, theory, and practice of American vernacular architecture including a review of common building technologies, structure, and style, and focusing on methods and approaches for recording, documenting and analyzing these historic resources.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP655 or HISP619V.
Formerly: HISP619V.

 

HISP660 Internship in Historic Preservation (3 Credits)
Students will secure a summer internship with an organization engaged in historic preservation work (this can be a public agency, nonprofit, or private firm). The students will formulate a plan of work and a series of pedagogical goals to satisfy both the practical needs of the project and the academic requirements for the course.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Formerly: HISP619.

 

HISP670 Conservation of Historic Places: Historic Materials, Building Systems, and Conservation (3 Credits)
Introduces students to the analysis of historic buildings, building systems and materials. The overall emphasis is on assessing the condition of a building and its parts, and formulating a preservation strategy based on it. Conservation methods will be discussed through the introduction of philosophies and specific techniques.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP619T or HISP670.
Formerly: HISP619T.

 

HISP678 Fieldwork in Historic Preservation (3 Credits)
Advanced fieldwork in research and documentation of historic sites and structures including primary local history research, building analysis, survey techniques, field photography, and graphic documentation techniques.
Repeatable to: 6 credits if content differs.

 

HISP679 Introduction to Measured Drawings for Historic Preservation (3 Credits)
Teaches graphic documentation methodologies for historic buildings, including hand measuring, drafting, preparing a sketch plan, analyzing buildings, and producing finished drawings in ink. Students will analyze building in situ.
Repeatable to: 6 credits if content differs.

 

HISP680 Preservation Economics (3 Credits)
Students are introduced to a range of economic theories, methods, and issues that must be considered in the practice of historic preservation. Case studies related to community economic development, adaptive reuse, tax credit programs, project finance, and land use will be presented.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP619N or HISP680.
Formerly: HISP619N.

 

HISP690 Historic Preservation Professional Practice (2 Credits)
Students explore management and practice issues in the historic preservation field. Topics include: project management, budgeting, personnel, and grantsmanship. Each topic will be considered in the three main areas of practice - government agencies, non-profits, and for profit companies. Outside speakers from these various practice environments will present on their area of specialization.
Restriction: Permission of instructor.

 

HISP701 Certificate Portfolio Project (1 Credit)
Students will gather samples of their work and craft a synthetic statement on their experiences in their HISP certificate courses (for example, picking up on themes such as community involvement, diversity of practice, affordable housing, or sustainability), and the ways in which they have integrated historic preservation into their thinking and practice in their home discipline.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Historic Preservation Program.

 

HISP710 Final Project in Historic Preservation I (1 Credit)
An independent, applied research project investigating the preservation of a particular site or a specialized issue in historic preservation. This is part one of a two-semester sequence and involves developing the project proposal and bibliography.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP700 or HISP710.
Formerly: HISP700.

 

HISP711 Final Project in Historic Preservation II (2 Credits)
An independent, applied research project invesitgating the preservation of a particular site or a specialized issue in historic preservation. This is part two of a two semester sequence and involves project research and writing.
Credit Only Granted for: HISP700 or HISP711.
Formerly: HISP700.

RDEV250 People, Planet, and Profit: Building Sustainable Places (3 Credits)
An introduction to the four disciplines represented in the School: architecture and urban design, community planning, historic preservation, and real estate development, that work to create a more sustainable environment for the future to create a more sustainable environment for the future using our interpretation of the quadruple bottom line: socio-cultural, economic, environmental, and design sustainability. Students will be provided with an understanding of the fundamental scholarship and processes of each of these disciplines and examine the intersections between them. Additionally, they will learn by applying the approaches of the four disciplines through a series of field studies.Cross-listed with: ARCH271.
Credit Only Granted for: ARCH271 or RDEV250.

 

RDEV270 Tax and Accounting for Real Estate Development (3 Credits)
An understanding of key tax and accounting principles and how they impact real estate development for students in the minor in real estate development is the purpose of this course. This course is geared for science, arts and humanities students who otherwise in their major would not take an accounting course as part of their major.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development; and must not be in a major in the Robert H. Smith School of Business; and must not have completed BMGT210, BMGT220, or BMGT221.

 

RDEV350 Real Estate Development: Introduction to Principles, Process, and Practice (3 Credits)
An introduction to the basic principles of real estate development: How real estate and communities get built and how value is created. The emphasis is on entrepreneurship and an experiential learning approach to the entrepreneurial real estate development process, principles, and practice.
Prerequisite: RDEV250 or ARCH271.
Restriction: Must be enrolled in the RDEV Minor; and permission of ARCH-School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV150 or RDEV350.
Formerly: RDEV150.

 

RDEV450 Foundations of Real Estate Finance and Investment (3 Credits)
Real Estate Finance and Investment addresses how real estate value is established, the fundamental foundations of the time value of money, as well as more real estate specific applications of return on investment, net operating income, the components of a real estate sources and uses statement, sources of real estate equity and debt financing, commonly used debt ratios and equity returns in real estate, as well as concepts of sensitivity analysis and exit strategies.
Prerequisite: Must have completed RDEV270 or an approved accounting course with a grade of C- or better; and minimum grade of C- in RDEV350.
Restriction: Must be enrolled in RDEV Minor; and permission of ARCH-School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation.

 

RDEV478 Special Topics in Real Property Development (1-3 Credits)
RDEV 478 will address one or more current topics in real property with a focus in one or more of the areas of real estate development from planning and entitlements, to design and construction, to market analysis and valuation, to finance and investment, to operations and property management, or social and economic impacts.
Recommended: RDEV250, RDEV350, and RDEV450.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation.
Repeatable to: 6 credits if content differs.

 

RDEV450 Foundations of Real Estate Finance and Investment (3 Credits)
Real Estate Finance and Investment addresses how real estate value is established, the fundamental foundations of the time value of money, as well as more real estate specific applications of return on investment, net operating income, the components of a real estate sources and uses statement, sources of real estate equity and debt financing, commonly used debt ratios and equity returns in real estate, as well as concepts of sensitivity analysis and exit strategies.
Prerequisite: Must have completed RDEV270 or an approved accounting course with a grade of C- or better; and minimum grade of C- in RDEV350.
Restriction: Must be enrolled in RDEV Minor; and permission of ARCH-School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation.

 

RDEV478 Special Topics in Real Property Development (1-3 Credits)
RDEV 478 will address one or more current topics in real property with a focus in one or more of the areas of real estate development from planning and entitlements, to design and construction, to market analysis and valuation, to finance and investment, to operations and property management, or social and economic impacts.
Recommended: RDEV250, RDEV350, and RDEV450.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation.
Repeatable to: 6 credits if content differs.

 

RDEV600 Principles and Practice of Real Property Development (3 Credits)
An introduction to basic principles of real estate development: How real estate and communities get built and how value is created. The emphasis is on entrepreneurship and an experiential learning approach to the entrepreneurial real estate development process, principles, and practice.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688T or RDEV600.
Formerly: RDEV688T.

 

RDEV603 Introduction to Real Property Finance (3 Credits)
Introduction to Real Property Finance addresses how real estate value is established, the fundamental foundations of the time value of money, as well as more real estate specific applications of return on investment, net operating income, the components of a real estate sources and uses statement, sources of real estate equity and debt financing, commonly used debt ratios and equity returns in real estate, as well as concepts of sensitivity analysis and exit strategies.
Restriction: Permission of the Department.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688Z, RDEV689V, or RDEV603.
Formerly: RDEV688Z and RDEV689V.

 

RDEV605 Tax and Accounting for Real Property Developers (3 Credits)
This course is designed to familiarize students with taxation and accounting as it pertains to real estate development.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688K or RDEV605.
Formerly: RDEV688K.

 

RDEV610 Real Property Development Law and Ethics (3 Credits)
Presents foundational knowledge about real property, contracts, administrative and constitutional law, and ethical principals and reasoning skills.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688A or RDEV610.
Formerly: RDEV688A.

 

RDEV615 Principles, Process and Politics of Planning for Real Property Development (3 Credits)
Designed to introduce and familiarize students with planning and zoning and the associated processes and requirements that impact the real property development process and products. It will look at the roles the community and politics play in shaping the built environment and the development process.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688G or RDEV615.
Formerly: RDEV688G.

 

RDEV620 Market Analysis for Real Property Development (3 Credits)
Designed to introduce and familiarize students with completing market analysis for real property projects. Includes a broad range of land uses including for-rent and for-sale residential, retail, office, and hospitality. Covers all aspects of completing a market analysis from the site visit to recommendations, and all the steps in-between. Examines how various real estate practitioners, such as developers, builders, investors, landowners, and public officials, utilize market studies.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV689M or RDEV620.
Formerly: RDEV689M.

 

RDEV630 Real Property Finance and Investment (3 Credits)
This course is designed to introduce students who have experience in real estate finance or have taken an introductory course in real estate finance and investment to move to this intermediate course that addresses foundational concepts of commercial real estate finance and the measures used in analyzing and evaluating real estate projects. Quantitative analysis and financial modeling comprise the main focus.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV630, RDEV688B, or URSP664.
Formerly: RDEV688B.

 

RDEV635 Capital Markets and Real Estate Investments for Developers (3 Credits)
An advanced course in real estate finance focusing on capital markets and complex financing mechanism in the public and private markets for raising capital for development of public, private and public/private projects.
Prerequisite: RDEV630, URSP664, or RDEV688.
Restriction: Must be in Real Estate Development (Master's) program; or permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV635 or RDEV688F.
Formerly: RDEV688F.

 

RDEV640 Principles of Urban Design for Real Property Developers (3 Credits)
Introduces students to the design issues associated with development of the basic real property asset classes (office, retail, and residential) and the context driven forces that shape these different development types. Also introduces non-design students to the principles of visual literacy and the capacity of different property to support development in the effort to enhance a community.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688J or RDEV640.
Formerly: RDEV688J.

 

RDEV650 Essentials of Design and Construction Management for Development Professionals (3 Credits)
Essential terminology, process and substantative knowledge needed by development professionals to effectively move a project through the design and construction process; includes environmental and ethical considerations throughout the process.
Restriction: Must be in Real Estate Development (Master's) program; or permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV650 or RDEV688C.
Formerly: RDEV688C.

 

RDEV660 Commercial Leasing for Real Property Developers (3 Credits)
Provides students with a hands-on look at commercial and real estate leases, lease provisions, and current market activity, a key factor in determining when and whether to proceed with developing a commercial property.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688L or RDEV660.
Formerly: RDEV688L.

 

RDEV670 Negotiating Agreements & Resolving Conflicts when Developing Real Property (3 Credits)
Designed to develop students' negotiation and leadership skills for managing differences between individuals and groups while in the process of developing and operating real property. Includes a blend of skill-building exercises and theory discussions about the behavior of individuals to understand negotiation dynamics.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688E or RDEV670.
Formerly: RDEV688E.

 

RDEV688 Selected Topics in Real Estate Development (3 Credits)
Selected topics in real estate development.
Prerequisite: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Repeatable to: 8 credits if content differs.

 

RDEV689 Current Topics in Real Estate Development (1-3 Credits)
Explores a focused aspect in any of the five major phases of real estate development: planning, finance, law, design, construction, or management.

 

RDEV690 Capstone Project: Real Property Feasibility Study (3 Credits)
The capstone course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply acquired classroom knowledge to real world conditions. Each student in the class will work separately to create a development proposal and feasibility study for an assigned property. For students doing a feasibility study of a development the study will address at least market analysis, entitlement process, construction, and financing for the project.
Prerequisite: Completion of at least 7 RDEV courses.
Restriction: Permission of ARCH-Real Estate Development.
Credit Only Granted for: RDEV688I or RDEV690.
Formerly: RDEV688I.

URSP804 Advanced Planning Theory (3 Credits)
Relations between theory and practice in planning. Ways of developing and using knowledge in collective action. Challenges to organizing for planning, finding knowledge useful for planning and balancing social attachments with free inquiry.

 

URSP805 Seminar in Research Design (3 Credits)
Addresses fundamental aspects of research desing for Ph.D students in urban planning and policy-related fields. Topics include principles of research design, formulating a feasible hypothesis and identifying appropriate methodology for testing hypotheses eg. qualitative methods, quantitative methods, survey research. Writing of proposals and dissertation. Publication, presentation, and funding.
Prerequisite: URSP804 and URSP810.

 

URSP810 Contemporary Metropolitan Issues (3 Credits)
Introduces Ph.D. students to current metropolitan issues. Focus is on the historical development of the issue, problem definition, methodological approaches to its study, methodological dilemmas, and the ways that different conclusions are translated into policy. Topics vary from semester to semester but include such topics as the spatial mismatch hpothesis, the impact of urban design and form on travel behavior, the impact of technology on urban form, the justification for historic preservation, and sustainable development.
Restriction: Must be in Urban and Regional Planning and Design (Doctoral) program.

 

URSP898 Pre-Candidacy Research (1-8 Credits)
Selected topics in Urban Studies and Planning. Topics will vary with the instructor.
Repeatable to: 6 credits if content differs.

 

URSP899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8 Credits)
This course is a required course for the Ph.D program in Urban and Regional Planning and Design.