The Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BSA) degree is a 4-year-long undergraduate course of study. This program offers an integrated curriculum in the liberal arts and architecture designed to promote an understanding of design as a cultural expression while providing a strong preparation for graduate professional study in architecture or an array of other potential career paths. The BSA is a pre-professional degree in architecture that allows flexibility in the potential for double majoring and opportunities to join the architecture program after the freshman year. Graduates of this program are prepared to work in architectural or related offices and those who wish to become licensed architects would typically pursue a 2-year course of graduate study to attain an accredited professional degree in architecture. Many graduates of this program will choose work or graduate education in a wide variety of areas including law, business, real estate, preservation, planning, and landscape architecture.

YEAR 1

Fall Semester Semester Total 14-15

• AHST 1110 - Intro to Architecture 3
• English 1010 (must complete first year) 3
• Foreign Language 3-4
• University Elective 3
• TIDES (must complete first year) 1

Spring Semester Semester Total 15-17

• University Elective 3
• Humanities⁺⁺⁺⁺ 3
• Foreign Language 3-4
• Social Science⁺⁺⁺ 3
• Quantitative Reasoning⁺⁺ 3-4

YEAR 2

Fall Semester Semester Total 15-16

• DSGN 1100 Architecture Studio 4
• AVSM 1100 Visual Media 2
• AHST 3010 Hist/Theory of Arch & Urb I (fine arts req.) 3
• Lab Science - PHYS 1050 Physics for Architects⁺ 3-4
• University Elective 3

Spring Semester Semester Total 15

• DSGN 1200 Architecture Studio 4
• ADGM 1200 Digital Media I 2
• AHST 3020 Hist/Theory of Arch & Urb II (fine arts req.) 3
• University Elective 3 Non-Lab Science⁺ 3

YEAR 3

Fall Semester Semester Total 15

• DSGN 2100 Architecture Studio 6
• ADGM 3100 Digital Media II (satisfies fine arts req.) 3
• AHST 3030 Hist/Theory of Arch & Urb III (fine arts req) 3
• ATCS 3010 Site Strategies 3

Spring Semester Semester Total 15

• DSGN 2200 Architecture Studio/Project 6
• ATCS 3020 Materials and Methods 3
• ADGM 3200 Digital Media III (satisfies fine arts req.) 3
• Social Science⁺⁺⁺  3

YEAR 4

Fall Semester Semester Total 15

• DSGN 3100 Architecture Studio 6
• ATCS 4010 Structural Systems 3
• Architecture Elective 3
• University Elective 3

Spring Semester Semester Total 16

• DSGN 4200 Options Studio 6
• ATCS 3030 Building, Climate and Comfort 4
• ASTP 4^*** Capstone Seminar 3
• University Elective 3

Total Credits: 120-124

^* Note that University Core & Elective Courses, with the exception of TIDES and English Composition, may be completed at any time during the student’s curriculum.

^** To satisfy the Writing Intensive Newcomb-Tulane Core Requirement students must take at least one course that contains a Writing Intensive component.

*** Students must satisfy the Perspectives requirement housed under the Cultural Knowledge component of the core by completing one course from the approved list of courses from the "Western Tradition" and with one course from either the approved "Outside the Western Tradition" or "Comparative Cultures and International Perspectives" lists.

⁺ PHYS 1050 satisfies the laboratory science distribution under the Scientific Inquiry component of the core curriculum. In addition to the four credit laboratory science, students must take an additional course (three credit hours minimum) in any of the following disciplines: Astronomy, Cell and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology.

⁺⁺ Students are strongly encouraged to take MATH 1150: Long Calculus I, MATH 1210: Calculus I, or MATH 1310: Consolidated Calculus. Students may also satisfy the Quantitative Reasoning requirement with MATH 1110: Probability and Statistics.

⁺⁺⁺ Courses offered in the following disciplines satisfy the Social Science distribution: Anthropology, Economics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, International Development, Latin American Studies, Political Economy, Political Science, Public Health (only SPHU 1010 and SPHU 1020), Sociology. Students must complete six credit hours in the Social Sciences.

⁺⁺⁺⁺Courses offered in the following disciplines satisfy the Humanities distribution: Arabic, Architectural Urban Studies, Chinese, Classical Studies, Communication, English, French, German, Haitian, Italian, Japanese, Jewish Studies, Latin, Literature, Philosophy, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese. Students must complete three hours in the Humanities. Students may not apply language courses to both the Foreign Language requirement and the Humanities requirement. Language instruction courses can apply to the Humanities distribution after the proficiency requirement has been met. Fully approved and accredited through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.