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ARCH-3115: Histories of Architecture

Description: Disciplinary study of architecture across time (pre-history to present) and across continents (Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern hemispheres). Histories, principles, and factors grounding architecture’s expression, form, and methods. Architecture as a cultural production reflective of its social, political, artistic, intellectual, technological, and environmental context. Exploration through artifacts, texts, drawings. ARCH 3115: emphasis on artifacts and architecture between 25000 BCE and 1600 CE; ARCH 3116: includes architectural productions from 1600 CE to present.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: ARCH-1015

Required By: ARCH-3116

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 28

Average GPA: 3.10 (B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 22.47%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.01%

Markus Breitschmid201346.0%33.3%15.8%0.9%0.0%4.0%3.262
Hilary Bryon201618.6%50.1%20.0%6.1%0.3%4.8%2.826
Laura M Mcguire201537.1%44.2%13.0%3.2%0.6%1.8%3.133
Joseph Bedford202354.0%31.3%10.1%2.0%1.0%1.6%3.357
Mark E Schneider201127.2%55.8%13.9%1.7%1.2%0.3%3.058
Nicholas D Genau201213.0%60.0%20.1%6.0%1.2%0.0%2.711
David H Haney202459.5%33.8%3.4%2.0%0.7%0.7%3.461

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