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Introduces basic architectural design principles. Elementary concepts of space, surface and form will be explored in two and three dimensional abstract exercises. Exercises incorporate observational analysis and graphic skills.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.

Transitions from abstract design principles to simple architectural exercises, considering function, scale, user and ordering strategies in relation to form-making in three-dimensional space. Exercises heighten observation and graphic skills while developing an architectural vocabulary.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 181 [Min Grade: C]

Focuses on a series of basic architectural problems developed around issues of context and material use in relationship to the organization of space and human activity. Design exercises will cultivate the design process through developing a conceptual idea through graphic and oral communication.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 182 [Min Grade: C] or INTR 233 [Min Grade: C-]

Architectural engineering majors only. Covers basic design principles using three-dimensional abstract and applied projects. Exercises heighten observation skills.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is AE.

Architectural engineering majors only. Continues ARCH 191. Uses design exercises to emphasize the nature of function, structure, and material and their impact on the design process.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is AE.
Prerequisites: ARCH 191 [Min Grade: D]

Introduces issues of architectural form, site and programmatic concerns. Design exercises will explore simple issues of structure, building and material systems and sustainability.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 183 [Min Grade: C] and (ARCH 213 [Min Grade: C] or INTR 245 [Min Grade: C-])

Covers architectural design problems of incremental complexity that emphasizes the nature of function, structure, and material and their impact on the design process.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ((ARCH 221 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 251 [Min Grade: C-]) or ARCH 170 [Min Grade: C-] or INTR 351 [Min Grade: C-], ) and ARCH 281 [Min Grade: C] and (ARCH 224 [Min Grade: C] or INTR 341 [Min Grade: C-])

Explores architectural design problems that introduce the full range of challenges in the areas of organization, program, context, systems and formal expression.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ((ARCH 222 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 252 [Min Grade: C-]) or ARCH 170 [Min Grade: C-]) and ARCH 282 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 225 [Min Grade: C]

Investigates the design relationship between man-made and the natural environment. Cultivates advanced analysis methods and the development of informed and resolved design solutions.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ARCH 283 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 226 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 223 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 253 [Min Grade: C]

Studies the relationship between building, site and context. Architectural design problems emphasize concept development that translates careful analysis into the building ideas with a progressing understanding of architectural concerns.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 381 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 274 [Min Grade: C-] or (ARCH 291 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 354 [Min Grade: C-])

Focuses on architectural problems with intermediate complexity. Integrates issues of context, site, program, function, and architectural systems into advanced design proposals.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 382 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 275 [Min Grade: C-] or (ARCH 292 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 355 [Min Grade: C-])

Focuses on more complex architectural challenges through analysis of case studies that address the relationship between the man-made built environment and the natural environment.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 383 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 276 [Min Grade: C-] or (ARCH 356 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 293 [Min Grade: C-])

Furthers the understanding of context and design and the application of solutions and strategies surrounding more complex architectural and environmental problems.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 481 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 377 [Min Grade: C-] or (ARCH 324 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 394 [Min Grade: C-])

Challenges to develop and refine architectural solutions through an advanced understanding of the relationship between buildings and environment.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 482 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 378 [Min Grade: C-] or (ARCH 325 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 395 [Min Grade: C-])

This design studio is taught as a vertical studio combining students from multiple years. Sections of this studio focus on a variety of special issues in the broader realm of architecture, urbanism and design and may be taught as an interdisciplinary studio.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 12 credits
Prerequisites: (ARCH 382 [Min Grade: C] or INTR 342 [Min Grade: C-] or INTR 442 [Min Grade: C-]) and ARCH 482 [Min Grade: C]

Addresses the complex relationship through analysis and synthesis of form, site, program, building technology and theory within specific building context.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 483 [Min Grade: C] and ARCH 379 [Min Grade: C-] or (ARCH 326 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 356 [Min Grade: C-] and ARCH 396 [Min Grade: C-])

Emphasizes complex architectural problems while demonstrating understanding and appropriate application.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 487 [Min Grade: C]

Integrates in-depth application and coordination of all architectural building criteria in a large scale and complex architectural problem.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ARCH.
Prerequisites: ARCH 488 [Min Grade: C]

This design studio is taught as vertical studio combining students from multiple years. Sections of this studio focus on a variety of special issues in the broader realm of architecture, urbanism and design and may be taught as an interdisciplinary studio.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 16 credits

This course emphasizes the importance of the art therapist’s arts-based practice for informing clinical work. Studio work is focused on exploring the art therapist’s use of her or his own creative capacities in the service of individuals who would benefit from engagement in artistic processes.

College/Department: College of Nursing Health Professions
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is ATC.

This course introduces methods of self-directed learning through creative processes. The course consists of three parts: 1) creative exploration; 2) personal and group reflection, notation, and sharing; and 3) emotional, cognitive, sensory-motor, artistic, and interpersonal small group experiences. Appropriate readings will be collaboratively sought and shared by all participants to parallel the emergent scholarship and information-seeking practices of the students and a final, arts-based synthesis will be presented to peers and the instructor.

College/Department: College of Nursing Health Professions
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is CATX.
Corequisites: CATX 703, CATX 712

Students explore characteristic regional culinary traditions from the US and around the world on a rotating basis. Emphasis is on flavor principles, signature dishes, techniques, and the history, geography, and culture of the region of study.

College/Department: College of Nursing Health Professions
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 4 times for 15 credits

Under the direction of culinary industry leaders and program faculty students will prepare and produce finished plates using a variety of previously learned skills. Finished products will reflect the style of a chosen culinary industry leader executed with the judgment and professionalism of the student.

College/Department: College of Nursing Health Professions
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CULA 115 [Min Grade: D] or CULA 120 [Min Grade: D]

In this course Digital Media senior project teams will meet with an appointed advisor on the technical details of their specific project requirements.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 3 credits

In this studio elective, students will continue to develop their Masters in Design Research (DSRE) skills. The DSRE studio project will include elements of speculation related to their chosen research path. Students will build on initial research outcomes to develop a prototypical project, which may include a physical artifact, prototype or a database, or a combination of outcomes. Professionally Juried.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

This course is an Introduction to directing live and taped multi-camera television productions in a studio setting. The emphasis will be on developing solid, basic directing technique that will be built upon in subsequent additional courses. Additionally, the basics of producing live TV programming will be discussed.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: FMTV 130 [Min Grade: D] or TVPR 100 [Min Grade: D]

This course will serve as a foundation for a variety of regional and traditional cuisines, including French, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Indian, and Caribbean and Island cuisines. Graduate students will master both the fundamental culinary skills for these cuisines and explore the rich academic literature on their historical, sociological, scientific, and technical aspects.

College/Department: College of Nursing Health Professions
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 12 credits

This course focuses on improvisational, interactive exercises designed to build culinary skills rather than replicate recipes. The emphasis is on culinary arts as an integrative creative enterprise synthesizing food science, aesthetics, management and performance. Activities are structured around five competencies: problem solving, speed, flavor and palate development, leadership and teamwork, and communication.

College/Department: College of Nursing Health Professions
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

In this course, students who are active members of a team in Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio, produce a professional-level, team-based, interactive project in a real-world production environment. It requires a project that demonstrates the integration of the student's academic and practical knowledge of the field as well as one or more specializations. Students refine their understanding of execution, delivery, and presentation of quality digital media production through implementation of professional best practices, and perfect their written, oral, and visual presentation skills through the power of collaboration, teamwork, and shared missions.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

Foundation spatial course: Involves conscious recognition of the manipulation of space or spaces within a given volume and with a small-scale environmental orientation. Includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: VSST 103 [Min Grade: C-] or VSST 106 [Min Grade: C-]

Primary spatial course. Involves conscious recognition of the manipulation of space or spaces within a given volume and small-scale environmental orientation. Includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 232 [Min Grade: C-] or INTR 322 [Min Grade: C-]

Provides experience with extensive real space. Emphasizes recognizing its aesthetic quality and maximizing its potential to meet the requirements of the inhabitants, by stylistic quality and elaboration in the selection and application of furniture finishes and accessories. Includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: INTR 233 [Min Grade: C-] or INTR 323 [Min Grade: C-]

Covers research, diagramming, site considerations, and program requirements for a specific user group; designing for complex spatial requirements with integration of interior components and furniture. Includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 331 [Min Grade: C-]

This course covers the design of commercial hospitality interiors. The studio project addresses program research and diagramming, site specificity, and designing for complex requirements with an awareness of vertical circulation, light, view, and enclosure. This course requires students to develop the ceiling plane and to create a visual identity for the design of restaurant interiors. This studio includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 323 [Min Grade: C-]

Covers design of institutional-commercial interiors, including space planning, selection of materials and furnishings toward a synthesized environment, and development of specifications. Includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Junior or Senior.
Prerequisites: INTR 342 [Min Grade: C-] or INTR 442 [Min Grade: C-]

This studio addresses program and design requirements for a specific demographic community. It will prepare students to tackle the complex design problems that face the growing healthcare industry. The course focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to complex problems in the interior environment for the practice areas of health, healing, and well-being. Precedent studies, programming briefs, literature reviews, and collaborative teamwork are used to create evidence-based design solutions that incorporate creativity, human factors data, user-centered design approach, life-safety codes, and building codes. This studio includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 430 [Min Grade: C-]

Competition opportunities from regional to international from professional to philanthropic allow for investigations of diverse contemporary issues surrounding the built environment. Students work under direction of a faculty member(s) to discuss, explore and develop solutions for entry into noteworthy competitions.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 1 times for 6 credits
Restrictions: Can enroll if classification is Junior or Senior.

Primary spatial course. Involves conscious recognition of the manipulability of space or spaces within a given volume and small-scale environmental orientation. Includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

Covers diagramming program requirements, designing for complex spatial requirements with an awareness of building systems (e.g., partitions, heating/ventilating/cooling, lighting), and furniture. Includes professionally juried presentations.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 532 [Min Grade: B-]

Focuses on a given residential environment with specific architectural identity meeting the residential space requirements of particular clients and recognition of and respect for the quality of interior architecture, volume and its ornament. Develops original approaches to furniture planning, lighting, interior elaboration, furniture, color and finish selection. Professionally juried.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

Focused study on the impact of interior architectural and decorative detailing on the interior environment through the understanding of precedent studies and ornamentation.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

Investigates the manipulation of spatial volume within the context of small-scale environments. Projects build in complexity in terms of use, tectonics and structure emphasizing concept development, iterative design process and various ways of making. Professionally juried.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 622 [Min Grade: C]

Focused study in digital communication and making and its role in the design of the interior environment.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

Focuses on the design of an interior with emphasis on programmatic requirements and environmental behavior leading to a synthesized and identifiable environment. Emphasizes concept, pre-design research, programming, space planning and presentation. Professionally juried.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 632

Investigation in interior detailing and the impact it has on the identity of the interior environment. Focused study and understanding of the design attributes of materials, construction systems and use of detail as a design process and generator.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

Focused on design of a mid to large scale commercial interior with emphasis on programmatic requirements, parti, adjacency diagrams and office systems. Applies a design concept based on client identity through interior planning and appropriate selection of furniture, materials and finishes consistent with contract interiors. Requires building code analysis, and demonstrated understanding of building codes. Professionally juried.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 642 [Min Grade: C]

Focused study and application of building codes and construction documentation of a mid-large scale commercial interior environment.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

Studio context will provide for investigative study on subjects of specific environmental concern reflective of current trends, through the study of a large scale interior environment. Professionally juried.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: INTR 652 [Min Grade: C] or INTR 430 [Min Grade: C]

Focused study and analysis of professional practice covering contemporary business methods, practices, and procedures in the operation of a design firm, including legal and ethical implications.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

Introduces the student to basic maintenance and troubleshooting techniques used in the modern recording studio. Basic electronic components, cabling, soldering skills, audio measurements, and equipment calibration are emphasized.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 279 [Min Grade: C]

This course introduces studio photography practices with a focus on creating a portfolio. Continues utilization of the digital camera. Examines augmenting available light, and artificial lighting techniques. Provides basic approaches to studio photography and how to apply them outside the studio with available materials.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: PHTO 110 [Min Grade: D] or PHTO 141 [Min Grade: D]

Introduces professional studio photography practices. Continues utilization of the digital camera. Examines artifical lighting techniques and provides context for exploration of the studio as a creative photographic environment.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: PHTO 110 [Min Grade: D] and PHTO 210 [Min Grade: D]

An advanced studio photography class that will teach the student the workflow associated with high-end digital studio capture. The class will also cover various advanced studio lighting techniques. The development of a personal portfolio of work produced in the studio will be required by all students.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is PHTO.
Prerequisites: PHTO 234 [Min Grade: D]

This course is the basic introduction to the study of form and abstract visual relationships. It explores the issues concerning the organization of multiple elements of a 3-dimensional composition and form as it relates to the natural world. Its emphasis is on the abstract, rather than the literal, to remove stereotypical object identification.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: WEST 107 [Min Grade: C]

This course uses principles of visual design in the organization of physical elements and analysis of form. Building on abstract relationships, natural inspiration, and the study of visual reference, students develop a sensitivity to form language, semantics, materials, and aesthetics of 3D objects of design. They learn to synthesize this abstract language into functional objects.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: WEST 107 [Min Grade: D]

In this course students are presented complex design issues in mass-produced objects. Students develop an understanding of the product development process focusing on the designers skills and technical knowledge to formulate appropriate design solutions. Students practice collaboration of ideas with engineers, marketing, users and shareholders.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: (PROD 210 [Min Grade: C] or PROD 212 [Min Grade: C]) and (PROD 220 [Min Grade: C] or PROD 211 [Min Grade: C])

Through a focused design project, students of various backgrounds and departments collaborate on complex design issues as they seek to create an appropriate and novel solution to the assigned design problem. Bringing both the PROD majors and PROD minors together, students work as teams through the product development cycle.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: PROD 230 [Min Grade: C] and PROD 235 [Min Grade: C] and PROD 255 [Min Grade: C]

In this first of two senior studios, students apply their skills to initiate research on an opportunity of their selection. Under supervision, students demonstrate control of applied design research and synthesis. This course focuses on the information gathering, study, and analysis that product designers do to inspire and inform themselves.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is PROD.
Prerequisites: PROD 340 [Min Grade: C] and PROD 345 [Min Grade: C]

In this second of two studios, students apply their skills to develop a solution based on the research conducted in the previous studio. Under supervision, students will demonstrate control of the product design process in the producation of a novel and appropriate user-focused solution.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is PROD.
Prerequisites: PROD 460 [Min Grade: C] and PROD 425 [Min Grade: C]

This final studio is a culmination of the educational experience in the production of a senior exhibition highlighting the students' accomplishments. Under supervision, students work together to demonstrate control of all aspects of the design process and visual communication in the production of a graduation exhibition.

College/Department: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts Design
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is PROD.
Prerequisites: PROD 470 [Min Grade: C]

Provides a multi-term integrative experience involving application of software engineering tools and techniques. Students work in teams to develop or contribute to large-scale software products. Requires participation in a development process that includes planning, specification, design, implementation, evaluation, and documentation.

College/Department: College of Computing and Informatics
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 9 credits
Prerequisites: SE 570 [Min Grade: C]