Environmental Design - ENVD

ENVD 2000 DESIGN CORE 1: THINKING AND PROCESSES (3) LEC. 3. An introductory active-learning course that explores the techniques and tools designers use to engage in the creative process. Workflows are investigated as a series of thoughts, actions, and operations culminating in unique graphic productions.

ENVD 2007 HONORS DESIGN CORE 1: THINKING AND PROCESSES (3) LEC. 3. An introductory active-learning course that explores the techniques and tools designers use to engage in the creative process. Workflows are investigated as a series of thoughts, actions, and operations culminating in unique graphic productions.

ENVD 2010 DESIGN CORE 2: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS (3) LEC. 3. An introductory active-learning course that introduces foundational design methods through lectures and projects focused on analog and digital gestures and their translation across media. Students progress from analog work to raster, vector, and model-based outputs, developing early multi-scalar design thinking. Designed for students from diverse design disciplines, emphasizing iteration, experimentation, and transferable ways of working.

ENVD 2040 DESIGN, INVENTION AND SOCIETY (3) LEC. 3. Role of design and invention in society from the ancient to the contemporary world.

ENVD 2047 HONORS DESIGN, INVENTION, AND SOCIETY (3) LEC. 3. Role of design and invention in society from the ancient to the contemporary world.

ENVD 2100 DESIGN CORE WORKSHOP (6) LAB. 6. Pr. ENVD 2000 and ENVD 2010. An active-learning capstone course where students pursue investigations in fabrication techniques, analogue drawings, and digital media through a multifaceted workflow process. Designer tools and methods are investigated at varying scales. This course is open to students in the major. Students in the minor may register with approval; see Advisor. Departmental approval required.

ENVD 2200 READINGS IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (3) SEM. 3. Investigates the idea of landscape through a range of texts, images, and built works that have helped form, and continue to shape, our understanding of the landscape. First year of B.ENVD.

ENVD 3000 NATURAL AND BUILT SYSTEMS 1 (3) LEC. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100. Coreq. ENVD 3200. An active-learning course where students explore concepts rooted in ecological thinking and apply ecologically driven design principles to develop innovative solutions. A “C or better” in the prerequisite ENVD 2100 is required to enroll in this course.

ENVD 3100 CIVIC FUTURES 1: DESIGN NARRATIVES + PROPOSALS (3) LEC. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100. Coreq. ENVD 3300. An active-learning course designed to develop student-driven research through a collective civic design project that investigates social and spatial conditions, explores future possibilities with community partners, and positions research as a catalyst for meaningful public impact. A “C or better” in the prerequisite ENVD 2100 is required to enroll in this course.

ENVD 3200 NATURAL AND BUILT SYSTEMS 2 (3) SEM. 2.5. Pr. ENVD 2100. Coreq. ENVD 3000. An active-learning course that examines the built environment as an interrelated set of technical, material, and social systems that shape spatial, ecological, and civic outcomes. A “C or better” in the prerequisite ENVD 2100 is required to enroll in this course.

ENVD 3300 CIVIC FUTURES 2: DESIGN REPRESENTATION + COMMUNICATION (3) SEM. 2.5. Pr. ENVD 2100. Coreq. ENVD 3100. An active-learning course that focuses on designrepresentation as a means of communicating ideas across physical, digital, and civic or cultural contexts. Students explore drawing, modeling, visualization, and narrative techniques through lectures and exercises that test emerging and hybrid methods. These investigations culminate in a comprehensive representational project that supports and communicates work developed in the co-requisite course. A “C or better” in the prerequisite ENVD 2100 is required to enroll in this course.

ENVD 4000 ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN (3) LEC. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100 or ARCH 2010 or LAND 2110. ENVD 4000 provides environmental design students with an introduction to urban design theories, methods and processes through combination of lectures and on-site instruction.

ENVD 4010 DIGITAL + MATERIAL PROTOTYPING (3) LEC. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100. A hybrid active-learning course aimed at building confidence in design skills via iterative mock-ups, phototyping, and hands-on projects. A range of skills are refined and demonstrated: hybrid digital/physical workflow integration, critical design analysis and close observation, design research, and visual/oral presentation skills serving as foundational principles within this course's structure.

ENVD 4017 HONORS DIGITAL + MATERIAL PROTOTYPING (3) LEC. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100. A hybrid active-learning course aimed at building confidence in design skills via iterative mock-ups, prototyping, and hands-on projects. A range of skills are refined and demonstrated: hybrid digital/physical workflow integration, critical design analysis and close observation, design research, and visual/oral presentation skills serving as foundational principles within this course’s structure.

ENVD 4100 DESIGN CAPSTONE WORKSHOP (6) LEC. 6. Pr. ENVD 3000 and ENVD 3100 and ENVD 3200 and ENVD 3300 and ENVD 4010 and ENVD 4500. An active-learning capstone course where students select a conceptual unit and develop a research-driven design project. Emphasis is on defining a theoretical stance, synthesizing prior learning, and producing work of professional and scholarly quality that demonstrates critical thinking, material exploration, and spatial creativity. A “C or better” in the prerequisite ENVD 3000, 3100, 3200, and 3300 courses is required to enroll in this course.

ENVD 4500 DESIGN TRAJECTORIES (3) SEM. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100. An active-learning course that prepares students for design-related graduate studies and professional practice through focused portfolio development, articulation of disciplinary interests within design and the allied arts, and refinement of professional communication skills. Emphasis is placed on critical positioning, clarity of authorship, and the translation of academic work into professional narratives.

ENVD 4900 DIRECTED STUDIES (3) IND. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100. Highly focused study in one or more of the program's four focus areas (scenographies, narratives, matters, and ecologies) that is approved and supervised by a faculty member with such expertise. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

ENVD 4920 INTERNSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (1) INT. 1. SU. Faculty Approval. Internship in the areas of environmental design, as approved by faculty supervisor.

ENVD 4970 SPECIAL TOPICS (3) LEC. 3. A course emphasizing research-driven, cross-disciplinary design inquiry while engaging contemporary issues in design through faculty-led seminars grounded in one or more of the program's four focus areas (scenographies, narratives, matters, and ecologies). Course may be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

ENVD 4977 HONORS SPECIAL TOPICS (3) LEC. 3. A course emphasizing research-driven, cross-disciplinary design inquiry while engaging contemporary issues in design through faculty-led seminars grounded in one or more of the program’s four focus areas (scenographies, narratives, matters, and ecologies). Course may be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

ENVD 5030 DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP + COLLABORATION (3) SEM. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100. This active-learning course explores design entrepreneurship through internal or external partner engagement, teamwork, and other forms of collaboration that challenge conventional designer–client relationships. It encourages students to explore spatial, object-like, or other programmatically rich proposals that narratively represent and communicate their designed relationship to the brand, partner, or framework.

ENVD 5037 HONORS DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP + COLLABORATION (3) SEM. 3. Pr. ENVD 2100. This active-learning course explores design entrepreneurship through internal or external partner engagement, teamwork, and other forms of collaboration that challenge conventional designer–client relationships. It encourages students to explore spatial, object-like, or other programmatically rich proposals that narratively represent and communicate their designed relationship to the brand, partner, or framework.