Summer Course Offerings

After yesterday's great morning of discussion Andrew, Michael, and I retreated to Schlotsky's to consider the matters raised relative to the coursework that the college can offer in our summer study abroad programs. We have these proposals for you:

Let's frame the ARCH4601 studio as an introduction to building design as a fundamental act of civics, place-making, and city craft thoroughly rooted in the tradition that understands the building as the primary component of the city- regardless of how "old-fashioned" that may seem while cozy in our Lubbockian world where the street is king. Issues in contemporary urbanism, like Landscape Urbanism or Social Advocacy or Community Design or Suburbanism or Agrarianism or Infrastructuralism or Eco-Tourism or Exurbanism or even Planning and Functional Consumerism (mixed use-ism), are best left to the three Topical Graduate Studios we'll be teaching in on a rotating basis. I'll be tapping a few of you to join me in fleshing out more explicit guidance for this summer's course in the near future. If you'd like nominate yourself for this task then send me an email.

Let's offer the ARCH4000 course in the same format planned- one credit hour here in the spring coordinated by Clifton Ellis and two credit hours offered by each program in their own way in the summer programs. The course be an architecture elective and WILL NOT count as either Architectural Theory (ARCH363) or Contemporary Issues (ARCH3341).

If you'd like to talk more about these issues we can plan a meeting in the near future. I found our discussion yesterday very, very useful and open. Thank you for your patience and support.