Degree Requirements | Sample Curriculum Outline
Degree Overview
Students currently enrolled in either the architecture or interior architecture graduate programs may meet with their advisor to request to enroll in a concurrent master’s degree option that provides an accelerated path toward attaining two accredited professional degrees: the master of interior architecture (CIDA accredited) and a master of architecture (NAAB accredited). Recipients of concurrent architecture and interior architecture degrees graduate as facile designers who are able to engage in a variety of broad and specific issues concerning: scales of sites and spaces, detail and materiality, sustainability, and collaborative processes.
Students without advanced placement who are required to complete fourteen studios can finish the concurrent degrees in a minimum of four years. This timeline includes one additional 584-level summer studio.
Graduate students with advanced placement can adapt the sample curricula to their special circumstances, resulting in a 10-studio minimum. A separate application procedure will be determined.
Degree Requirements (178 Credits)
UO Graduate Studies requires a minimum of 45 graduate credits in each program of which 30 are in the major and 9 at 600.
Sample Curriculum Outline
Year One
SUMMER TERM
13 Credits
ARCH 680 Introductory Graduate Design
ARCH 610 20th Century Architecture History
ARCH 611 Graduate Design Process
FALL TERM
16 Credits
ARCH 681 Introductory Graduate Design
ARCH 550 Spatial Composition*
ARCH 570 Building Construction
ARCH 610:Introduction to Architectural Computing*
WINTER TERM
14 Credits
ARCH 682 Introductory Graduate Design
ARCH 540 Human Context of Design*
ARCH 591 Environmental Control Systems I
SPRING TERM
14 Credits
ARCH 584 Architectural Design#
ARCH 530 Architectural Contexts: Place and Culture*
ARCH 592 Environmental Control Systems II
SUMMER TERM
6 Credits
ARCH 584 Architectural Design
Year Two
FALL TERM
17 Credits
ARCH 561 Structural Behavior
PPPM 611 Introduction to Planning Practice*
PPPM 617 Human Settlements**
PPPM 613 Planning Analysis I*
WINTER TERM
10 Credits
ARCH 584 Architectural Design
ARCH 562 Wood and Steel Building Systems
SPRING TERM
16 Credits
ARCH 584 Architectural Design
ARCH 523 Media for Design Development
ARCH 5xx Advanced Technical Seminar*
ARCH 5xx/6xx Seminar*
SUMMER TERM
Optional studio in Eugene, Portland, or abroad.
Year Three
FALL TERM
14 Credits
ARCH 584 Architectural Design
ARCH 571 Building Enclosure
ARH 6xx History (Renaissance)*
WINTER TERM
12 Credits
ARCH 585 Architectural Design I
ARCH 517 Context of the Architectural Profession
SPRING TERM
ARCH 586 Advanced Architectural Design II
ARH 6xx Seminar
PPPM 620 Research Methods in Planning I
SUMMER TERM
Optional studio in Eugene, Portland, or abroad.
Year Four
FALL TERM
8 Credits
PPPM 616 Planning Theory and Ethics*
PPPM 607 Applied Research Methods II
WINTER TERM
15 Credits
PPPM 612 Legal Issues in Planning*
PPPM 614 Planning Analysis II
PPPM 609 Terminal Project
PPPM 625 Community Planning Workshop I*
SPRING TERM
8 Credits
PPPM 609 Terminal Project
PPPM 625 Community Planning Workshop II*
*—Course counts for elective for other degree
**—Course counts for elective and possibly architecture ancient history requirement (must petition current syllabus)
Architecture Track I to Community & Regional Planning Plan I Curriculum Guide