DFN 1000  School of Architecture Orientation
2-0-2
This course provides entry students with the educational requirements and the licensing procedures for design professionals. Development of the built environment, the study of professional architectural practice and associated disciplines are also introduced.

DFN 1001  Design Foundation I
0-12-4
Students investigate and document the spaces dedicated to a familiar activity as a means for developing basic skills and sensitivities toward the role of architecture in enhancing the quality of life.

DFN 1002  Design Foundation II
0-12-4
Prerequisites: DFN 1000, DFN 1001
This course employs investigation, comparison, and evaluation of alternatives in order to understand the relationship between behavior and architectural form.

DFN 2003  Design Foundation III
1-9-4
Prerequisite: DFN 1002
This course concentrates on shaping, organizing, and comparing architectural space using strategies developed by Architects.

DFN 2004  Design Foundation IV
0-9-3
Prerequisite: DFN 2003
The culmination of the Design Foundation incorporates and builds upon all previous course work. It adds the fundamental concept of typology to previous experiences with architectural space, composition, and program. Students investigate layers of functional zoning, geometric organization, three dimensional configuration, openings, physical texture, color, character, and symbolic meaning.

DFN 2111  Architecture Culture I: Prehistory through Gothic with an Introduction to Non-Western Traditions
3-0-3
The history of architecture is presented as a collection of buildings, each of which is seen as a concrete solution to a given set of culturally derived problems and issues. These buildings, as precedents, are not to be analyzed based on composition or aesthetic image, but rather as design solutions to complex socio-cultural problems. History is used as a didactic device to aid the design student in problem solving by presenting examples of how architects have successfully transformed the intellectual concerns of their day into built form.

DFN 2211  Introduction to Structures
3-0-3
Prerequisite: MATH 2253
This course is an introduction to architectural structures with an emphasis on statics and strength of materials concepts. Focus is on force systems, shear and moment diagrams and determination of section properties.

DFN 3241  Computer Applications in Architecture
1-3-2
Prerequisite: DFN 2003
This course presents basic training in the operation of the hardware and software of computer-aided design (CAD) with an introduction to two and three-dimensional graphic techniques and their application to professional practice.