Department: Architecture & Art

Code Name Description
AP106 Architectural Drafting The various graphic tools, techniques, and conventions are presented and the rationale behind their use is explained. In addition to the basic graphic constructions and multi-view projections, the methods of developing architectural plans, elevations...
AP111 Fundamentals of Architecture Introduction to the basic principles and skills of architecture. A series of two and three dimensional graphic exercises is used to gain an understanding of architectonics, the intentional arrangement of space and enclosure to communicate human value...
AP118 Fundamentals of Architecture II A continuation of the fundamental processes and technologies of architecture. Students learn the design process, explores interactive computer graphics (CAD) as a design tool, and apply these principles, processes, and skills to an architectural desi...
AP188 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
AP211 Architectural Design I The first in a sequence of design studio courses introducing the processes, judgment, and communications involved in the synthesis of architectural form. The influences of the human and physical contexts on form are explored. 1 Lecture hour. 12 Studi...
AP212 Architectural Design II Second semester in a sequence of design studio courses emphasizing the processes, judgment, and communications involved in the synthesis of architectural form. The influences of functional requirements on form are explored. 1 Lecture hour. 12 Studio...
AP215 Building Information Modeling for Architects For the architect, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a powerful instrument for integrating technical qualities with poetic qualities in the earliest stages of schematic building design. This is a hands-on course that introduces a curated playlis...
AP216 Digital Media in Architecture This course introduces students to essential software applications used in contemporary architecture and design practice, focusing on 2D and 3D modeling, building information modeling (BIM), and parametric design. Through practical exercises and case...
AP216 Digital Media in Architecture This course introduces students to essential software applications used in contemporary architecture and design practice, focusing on 2D and 3D modeling, building information modeling (BIM) and parametric design. Through practical exercises and case...
AP221 Site Development and Design Course addresses engineering principles and design considerations involved with site design. Earth shaping, drainage, roadway alignment, parking lot layouts, code requirements and environmental factors are studied prior to and after design changes. 2...
AP225 Introduction to Passive Environmental Systems Introduction to the impacts of environmental energies on architectural form. Emphasis is on the processes architects orders light, climate, gravity, and sound responses to achieve building geometry. Also addressed are concepts and strategies for resp...
AP241 Architectural Delineation A studio course in advanced graphic methods. Various rendering techniques, definitive design development, and the principles of construction drawings and architectural detailing are presented and explored through individual projects. 1 Lecture hour....
AP244 Building Resilience: Social and Environmental Justice in our Built Environment Social and Environmental Justice in our Built Environment is a transdisciplinary course introducing the shared responsibility by all of us for creating a more resilient built environment. Students learn terms and policies concerning anthropometric da...
AP288 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
AP311 Architectural Design III The development of the comprehensive building process as a synthesis of spatial, functional, and contextual concerns with emphases on building systems and materials are discussed. Individual and group problems, of a limited and defined scope are expl...
AP312 Architectural Design IV The fourth course in the design studio sequence continues the development of a comprehensive building design process with problems of complex, but limited scope. The synthesis of spatial, functional, and contextual concerns, as directly linked to the...
AP325 Materials, Construction, and Design Construction materials and systems are evaluated, selected, incorporated, and detailed in building design. Both measurable and immeasurable design responses to environmental energies are explored in soils, concrete, masonry, wood, and metals. 3 Lectu...
AP327 Active Building Systems I A survey of contemporary mechanical building equipment and systems, including heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Emphasis on comparisons of design parameters, interfaces, and impacts on overall building form. Energy efficiency is addressed. 3...
AP328 Active Building Systems II A continuation of Active Building Systems, surveying contemporary electrical, lighting, and plumbing equipment and systems. Emphasis on comparisons of design parameters, interfaces, and impacts on overall building form. Energy efficiency and building...
AP388 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
AP403 Architectural Seminar in History and Theory Focuses on one or more topics regarding the historic and philosophical contexts that influence architecture today. Topics range from the study of specific historic periods design to the diverse trends in current architectural thinking. This course ma...
AP411 Architectural Design V The extension of the comprehensive design includes problems of an expanded scope and large scale, including building complexes and urban design. Individual and group problems emphasize of environmental factors, human concerns, and architectural form....
AP412 Architectural Design VI The extension of the comprehensive design process to include problems of expanded scope and large scale, including building complexes and urban design. Individual and group problems emphasize the complex interrelationships of environmental factors, h...
AP414 Architectural Seminar In Design Investigates one or more specific concepts, issues, or topics related to architectural design and its associated disciplines, such as urban, landscape, interior, and visual design. Requires a graduate level paper or project. Permitted to be repeated...
AP424 Architectural Seminar in Technology Focuses on one or more of the specific issues, topics, or skills related to technologies in architecture today. Topics range from advanced materials and construction systems to energy-conserving design; from environmental issues to hands-on building...
AP431 Design Thinking and Innovation Examines creativity as the ability to turn ideas into action in development, management, evolution, and broad context of emerging technologies and associated ventures. Students gain an understanding of the key tenets of design thinking and a sense fo...
AP434 Architectural Seminar in Process Focuses on one or more specific topics regarding the current and future practice of architecture: what architects do, and how they do it. Topics range from design techniques to office management and from specialties within the practice, to the legal...
AP436 Project Delivery and Documentation Relationships between the formal methods of project delivery and the architectural office are discussed. The project delivery process and the methods of communication and the documentation involved provide a detail study of typical office procedures....
AP455 Special Projects in Architecture An execution of a student-selected project related to architectural design, history/theory, process, or technology focuses on in-depth independent research, development, and a formal written and/or graphic presentation of an architecturally-related t...
AP488 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
AP501 Architectural Theory A course that introduces implicit and hidden motivations that influence architecture. Basic human values and beliefs leading to classic philosophies and aesthetics are explored. Major historic and contemporary propositions on architecture are surveye...
AP504 Architectural Seminar in History and Theory Focuses on one or more specific issues and topics regarding the historic and philosophical contexts that influence architecture today. Topics range from the study of specific historic periods or schools of thought regarding design to the diverse tren...
AP511 Architectural Studio VII Introspective problems intended to broaden and deepen individual understanding of the processes, theories, and systems that influence the design of the built environment are discussed. Emphasis is on thorough examination of all aspects of building. I...
AP512 Architectural Studio VIII Introspective problems are intended to broaden and deepen individual understanding of the processes, theories, and systems that influence the design of the built environment are discussed. Emphasis is on thorough examination of all aspects of buildin...
AP514 Architectural Seminar in Design Investigates one or more specific concepts, issues, or topics related to architectural design and its associated disciplines, such as urban, landscape, interior, and visual design. Requires a graduate level paper or project. This course may be repeat...
AP520 Architectural Seminar in Technology Focuses on one or more of the specific issues, topics, or skills related to technologies in architecture today. Topics range from advanced materials and construction systems to energy-conserving design; from environmental issues to hands-on building...
AP525 Architectural Thesis Research The course is independent research to display a mastery of defining an architectural problem, including the investigation and discussion of the procedural, physical, and intellectual limits of this problem. The course culminates with the publication...
AP526 Architectural Thesis Execution of a singular design or design-related project based on independent research and preliminary design work produced in AP 525 and of sufficient depth and breadth to display a mastery of design skills and comprehensive understanding of the arc...
AP531 Architectural Internship This course is a bridge between academic experience and professional practice. The learning experience moves in both directions. Students apply knowledge learned in the classroom to bring practical experience. Students secure a position with an archi...
AP533 Professional Practice Investigation into the issues related to the professional practice of architecture in contemporary American society. Topics include project management, finance and economics; business and practice management; and laws and regulations governing the pr...
AP534 Architectural Seminar in Process Focuses on one or more specific topics regarding the current and future practice of architecture: what architects do, and how they do it. Topics range from design techniques to office management and from specialties within the practice, to the legal...
AP555 Special Projects in Architecture An execution of a singular project related to architectural design, history/theory, process or technology selected by the individual student. Students, independently research, development, and a provide a written and/or graphic presentation of an arc...
AP558 Contemporary and Global Issues This course provides an in-depth analysis, discussion, and research into contemporary issues that impact the profession of architecture and architectural design. The nature of the material is relevant to the complex, changing nature of the profession...
AP604 History & Theory of 20th-Century Architecture Surveys global architectural history and theory from the 1920s through the 1980s, including modernism and its variants, receptions, reactions, and critiques. Introduces architectural criticism and research methods for the built environment. Includes...
AP605 Analysis of Architectural Icons Students study and analyze select examples from architectural history and theory (pre-history through the early decades of the 20th century). Students achieve a global and comparative familiarity with a representative range of buildings, urban forms,...
AP611 Architectural Design I Students learn and practice the basic principles and skills that constitute the discipline of architecture. Students investigate the design process and urban analysis, explore interactive computer graphics (CAD) as a design tool, and apply these prin...
AP612 Architectural Design II The second Masters level design studio course introduces the processes, judgment, and communications involved in the synthesis of architectural form. Through a focused series of individual and group projects, students explore and understand the influ...
AP613 Architectural Design III The development of the comprehensive building process at the graduate level as a synthesis of spatial, functional, and contextual concerns with emphases on building systems and materials. Individual and group problems are of a limited and defined sco...
AP614 Architectural Design IV Elective problem-oriented studios offered to fourth year students by various faculty members. The extension of the comprehensive design process to include problems of expanded scope and large scale, including building complexes and urban design. Indi...
AP621 Site Development and Design Students learn the engineering principles and design considerations involved with site design. Earth shaping, drainage, roadway alignment, parking lot layouts, code requirements and environmental factors are studied prior to and after design changes....
AP625 Introduction to Passive Environmental Design Through coordinated lectures, demonstrations, and projects, the impacts of environmental energies on architectural form and the greater environment are introduced and explored. Emphasis is given to the processes by which the architect orders light, c...
AP626 Materials, Design, and Construction An introduction to the processes by which construction materials and systems are evaluated, selected, incorporated, and detailed in building design. Both measurable and immeasurable design responses to environmental energies are explored in soils, co...
AP627 Active Building Systems A survey of contemporary mechanical building equipment and systems, including heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Emphasis is placed on comparisons of design parameters, interfaces, and impacts on overall building form. Energy efficiency is ad...
AP630 Wood, Steel and Concrete Structures This course builds directly on the material learned in Statics and Mechanics of Materials and is specifically direct to the study of the response of structural systems to various loadings. Gravity and lateral loads as well as load combinations on a s...
AP632 Statics and Mechanics Materials A study of elementary, primarily two dimensional engineering mechanics. Fundamental concepts and basic laws of statics, force systems, structures, and support reactions for loading patterns. Stress-strain relationships to forces: concepts and applica...
AP636 Project Delivery and Documentation This course introduces the basic history and theory of architectural programming, production and trends in the architectural office, including technology and sustainability. The project delivery process, and the methods of communication and documenta...
FA188 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
FA201 History/Theory of Architecture I This course Explores the architecture of different cultures from around the world beginning with the earliest evidence of human habitation and ending with the arrival of the renaissance. It examines the development of domestic, civic, and religious s...
FA202 History/Theory of Architecture II Explores the architecture of different cultures from around the world focusing on Western architecture from the Renaissance to the 19th century. It examines the development of domestic, civic, and religious sites, as well as towns and settlements. Th...
FA221 History of Visual Arts I: Prehistoric to 1350 Provide an understanding of well-made artifacts by addressing quality or artistic value in terms of form and content. Students are acquainted with the principal periods of Western art through a study of, sculpture, painting, and the minor arts, rangi...
FA222 History of Visual Arts II: 1350 to the Modern Era Provide an understanding of well-made artifacts by addressing quality or artistic value in terms of form and content. Students are acquainted with the principal periods of Western art through a study of sculpture, painting, and the minor arts, rangin...
FA240 History of American Art A survey of American architecture and art from colonial times to the present. Emphasis is on the rise and development of the arts in the United States and the changing nature and functions of art in American society. European influences and Native Am...
FA250 Topics in Art Topics vary, focusing on past and current issues in art related to historical style, art and the social context, aesthetic theory, tradition and innovation in media, and the role of art and the artist as an agent of communication in our time. This co...
FA260 Art Appreciation An introductory course focusing on ways to appreciate art: the role of the viewer, the purposes and functions of art, the creative process, materials and technology available to the artist, the relationship of art to culture Western and non-Western,...
FA288 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
FA308 History/Theory of Artchitectural III Surveys 20th-century architecture including the rise, consolidation, development, varieties, critique and later reinterpretation of modernism, exploring postmodern and other possibilities of modernism's eclipse. It integrates the historic aspects of...
FA309 History/Theory of Architectural IV A survey of architecture from the 1930s to the present day focusing on the various evolutionary paths of architectural development, including the codification of the international style and the subsequent challenges to the modern dogma into eras of m...
FA388 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
FA401 Introduction to Research Methods for Architecture Introduces research methods for interpreting the built environment. Provides a capstone to the architectural history and theory survey sequence by studying recent and contemporary theory and incorporating architectural criticism. Includes case studie...
FA488 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
SA103 Introduction to Drawing An introduction to drawing, emphasizing articulation of space and pictorial syntax while developing abilities of perception and ways of seeing. Class work is primarily based on observational study. Assigned projects address fundamental and conceptual...
SA104 Introduction to Visual Design An introduction to the language of visual expression, using studio projects to explore the basic principles of visual art and design as a fundamental component of visual communication. Students acquire a working knowledge of visual syntax applicable...
SA105 Introduction to Painting An introduction to the issues of contemporary painting, stressing a beginning command of the conventions of pictorial space, narrative, and the language of color. Students explore painting as a means of communicating ideas through visual symbols and...
SA106 Introduction to Printmaking An introduction to a diverse range of printmaking media: linocut, woodcut, and screen-printing process. Both color and black-and-white printing methods are explored. Class assignments and individual projects explore technical, conceptual, and histori...
SA107 Introduction to Photography An introduction to photographic principles as a means of visual communication and its relationship to history and contemporary issues while examining the invention and history of photography. A single-lens reflex manual 35mm film camera is required....
SA111 Foundations of Art and Architecture I An introduction to drawing and design, emphasizing articulation of space and pictorial syntax while developing abilities of perception, ways of seeing, and the language of visual perception as it relates to art and architecture design principles. Stu...
SA112 Foundations of Art and Architecture II An introduction to art and architectural three-dimensional design, emphasizing contemporary and traditional three-dimensional processes, concepts, and materials. Students present projects designed to introduce and fuse content, craftsmanship and the...
SA188 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
SA200 Intermediate Studio This course is for students pursuing further study in one of the following areas: drawing, design, painting, photography, and printmaking. The focus is on developing more complex levels of thought more thorough incorporation of theory and individual...
SA205 Water Media Examines water media, stressing an advanced command of the conventions of pictorial space, narrative, and the language of color and design. Assignments and projects explore technical, conceptual, contemporary, and historical issues central to water m...
SA210 The Portrait Explores the perceptual and conceptual means to construct the human face as a way to explore, understand, and portray the human condition. The structure of the head is examined as anatomy and as form. Historical examples are presented and examined as...
SA265 Life Drawing Focuses on study and exploration of the human figure using a range of approaches, with emphasis on observation, anatomy, spatial structure, and the use of life drawing as a means to analyze and explore the nature of the human condition. Historical ex...
SA288 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
SA300 Advanced Studio Student must have an approved outline for their individual course of study. Can be repeated up to six enrollments. 6 Studio hours. Prerequisites: SA 100 or 200 level course; permission of instructor. Offered: Spring
SA388 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.
SA400 Business of Being an Artist This course explores the opportunities for being a professional artist in the corporate, educational, and nonprofit world as well as being an independent, self employed artist. Topics to be covered include; how artists set prices for their artwork, m...
SA402 Design Arts Capstone Students create and implement approved capstone project which is undertaken with guidance of faculty and industry partners and reflects integration of all elements of the Design Arts curriculum. The course will require a written and an oral presentat...
SA404 Design Arts Internship The purpose of this internship/apprenticeship is to provide a structured learning experience and develop a bridge between a student's academic experience and professional practice. It provides students with an experiential form of learning that compl...
SA488 No Norwich Equivalent This course is used for transfer when no equivalent Norwich course exists.