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Mar 18, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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ARH 101 Exploring Sustainability, Design, and The Built Environment Credits: (3)
This course is an exploration of global built environments, with a focus on explaining significant design styles, movements, and trends within the context of the arts, politics, technology, business, the sciences, the social sciences, and an emphasis on sustainability. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course discusses the recent history of design in the built environment - what has impacted it and why. It is part of the three-course foundation for all Architecture and Interior Design students and is also a Liberal Arts elective. Prerequisite(s): ARH/IND major.
Designation(s): Liberal Arts
Learning Outcomes
- Define what is meant by “Built Environment.”
- Define basic design principles.
- Describe and analyze how selected global political events affect the built environment.
- Describe and analyze how natural environmental conditions and selected events affect the built environment.
- Describe and analyze how selected global technologies and materials affect the built environment.
- Describe and analyze how selected global visual and performing arts affect the built environment.
- Describe and analyze how selected global business developments and economics affect the built environment.
- Explore linkages between environment, economy and social equity.
- Compare and contrast selected global examples of the built environment.
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