ARCH-1004: Understanding Community through your Campus

Description: The Virginia Tech campus as both a place and an idea. Explore the physical campus and learn how to recognize its elements. Determine where you are physically, as a community, and as part of an academic tradition. Identification of campus landmarks and navigational exploration. Measure and assess the campus and its spaces and objects, both real and virtual. Place this campus in relation to wider campus ideal and Virginia Tech history. Discussion of custodianship of land by indigenous people and history of black communities in Blacksburg and surrounding areas. Discussion of how and to whom the campus is accessible. Analysis of its buildings, spaces, and branded artifacts in verbal, digital, and drawn representation of the images, forms, and spaces students have observed. Recognition and analysis of both explicit and implicit messages in buildings, objects, and spaces. Come to an understanding of how human-made structures act as stage sets or active frameworks in which we can act out our roles of as members of communities of various kinds and at various scales.

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Course Hours: 2 credits

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