Graduate Program Curriculum
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The graduate program of study in architecture at
the University of Oklahoma, College of Architecture has been revised in
structure and content to address
NAAB accreditation
requirements and to set forth a path of professional development that
will serve as the foundation for the practice of architecture in the
21st Century.
The result is a two-year curriculum with sustainability as its focus. Classes and studios address function, technology,
context, principle and theory in the creation of sustainable and
regionally responsive architecture. The intent is to motivate graduate
students of architecture to take a leadership role as professionals in
creating the future built environment. The courses are designed to
present a set of shared ideals that transcends disciplines and hegemony,
that validates locality and cultural particularity, and that informs an
aesthetic leading toward sustainable architecture in all its diversity
of language and form.
The curriculum presents a balance of theory and technology, ideals and
expertise in pursuit of an architecture based on the “bedrock qualities
of environmental and human-centered design [that] allows us to reassert
the deeper values and meanings to be found in the built environment" (Croxton).
The revised graduate curriculum reflects and espouses the changed
character of turn-of-the-century interpretations of fundamental concepts
of design, structure and space, function and context, ethics and global
responsibility: in short, a sustainable architecture.
The Graduate Program consists of four semesters of study leading
to an accredited
Master of Architecture degree. Requirements for admission to the
program are listed under
Admissions.
Students with an undergraduate degree in a discipline other than
architecture may also apply and be accepted in the
BSED
for the Graduate Level Program. Upon satisfactory completion
of all preparatory coursework, these students will be granted a Bachelor
of Science in Environmental Design (BSED), and will then be eligible for
applying for admission to the Master of Architecture Program.
