EDES - ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN -- 1998-99 Catalog
EDES 101 Introduction to Architecture and Environmental Design (2) (CR/NC)
Familiarization with the professional fields of architecture, landscape architecture, structural engineering, construction, and city planning. Introduction to the college's programs as they relate to individual aptitudes. The design process. Visiting speakers. Credit/No Credit grading. 2 lectures.
EDES 113 Graphic Analysis and Communication Skills (3)
Further development of freehand graphic communication skills for representation of conceptual ideas, analysis, and design concepts. Demonstrates the link between graphics, design process and communications. 3 laboratories. Prerequisite: ARCH 111.
EDES 406 Sustainable Environments (4)
Collaboration of interdisciplinary faculty and guest speakers/panelists. Introduction, illustration and analysis of concepts and principles for sustainability to be used in all aspects of environmental design. Integration and application of knowledge of human and natural systems with environmental, social and economic concerns, from a global-to-local perspective. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: Third or fourth year or graduate standing, or consent of instructor.
EDES 408 Implementing Sustainable Principles (3)
A primarily project-based course, intended to aid students who wish to collaborate with the purpose of implementing sustainability principles by developing tools, process or designs, for community-based projects and proposals at various scales of planning, architecture and design of the human environment to address social, environmental and economic issues. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: Third year standing or consent of instructor.