ARCH 170 - Introduction to the Built Environment |You have
chosen this course as part of your CORE Liberal Arts and
Sciences Study Program, the general education portion of your
degree program. CORE Distributive Studies courses are designed
to ensure that you will take a look at several academic
disciplines and the ways they create and analyze knowledge. A
committee composed of faculty and students approved this CORE
course because it will introduce you to ideas and issues that
are central to a major intellectual discipline and because it
promises to involve you actively in the learning process. (This
impressive statement courtesy of the CORE Program)| In this
course we will explore such questions as: - What is the built
environment? - What role does it play in everyone's life? - How
are ideas and significance embedded in the world we make? - How
does it come about? Specifically, this course is intended to
expose you to: - The theoretical basis of the design
disciplines. - The vocabulary they use. - The metho