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ARCH-1116: Qualifying Design Laboratory

Description: An immersive, interactive course focused on inquiry, experimentation, discovery, and synthesis. Employs a series of iterative drawing and modeling exercises, at an intermediate level, in two and three dimensions across multiple scales. Develops self-reliance and self-critique, which opens intellectual horizons. Challenges expand and deepen aesthetic judgement and critical understanding. Advances foundational thinking and making skills that develop their abilities to solve problems by exploring strategies towards viable consequences. Restricted to students transferring into the School of Architecture + Design and changing their major to architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, or industrial design.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: ARCH-1115

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 9

Average GPA: 3.22 (B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 7.27%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.47%

Christopher B Pritchett201457.2%40.0%2.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.491
James Bassett201928.1%69.6%0.9%0.0%0.0%1.4%3.303
Marie L Paget201615.8%84.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.201
David Dugas20137.3%78.1%14.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%2.931
Howard S Gartner201531.7%56.1%7.3%2.4%2.4%0.0%3.141
Madison C Cook202140.0%56.0%4.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.371
Arian Korkuti202024.1%53.7%20.4%0.0%1.9%0.0%2.971

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