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COA 1060 Introduction to Design and the Built Environment

Dr. Thomas D. Galloway
Professor Sabir S. Khan

Course Objectives

  • Sponsor a critical curiosity about the designed and built environment
  • Sponsor an informed engagement with one's surroundings: from the freeway on-ramp to the sidewalk curb cut
  • Sponsor a wide-ranging consideration of the relationship between design and the city/citizen/citizenship

  • Provide an introduction to the changing physical, social, and political landscape of the American city
  • Provide disciplinary frameworks and tools to help engage and respond to conditions in the designed and built environment

  • Introduce the three COA undergraduate programs and their related disciplines and professions
  • Provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on what each discipline/profession does and on the overlaps and connections between them

Lectures

Thrice-weekly lectures and panel discussions. Lectures and panel discussions are divided into the following groups:

  • The American Built Environment and How it got that Way
  • Atlanta Overview: Urban Form, Social Fabric
  • Building the Public City: City Literacy, City Life

  • Introduction to the Undergraduate Programs
  • Top Ten: Best of Arch/BC/ID; Professional Overlaps between Arch/BC/ID
  • Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Practice, Eco-design and Digital Media

Assignments

Summaries
Weekly summaries of readings and lectures associated with each class. Other written or discussion assignments assigned by individual TAs
35% of the final grade

Students are expected to complete the assigned reading, review the reading assignment prompts, and post reading summaries on their Reading Summaries page, by the end of the day of the due date listed

Street/Sidewalk Projects
Observation and documentation of Atlanta streets and sidewalks. Group work
30 % of the final grade

Final Exam
Three-hour written Final Exam based on materials covered in the readings, the lectures, and the Street/Sidewalk Projects
35% of the final grade

The registrar has scheduled the Final Exam for the morning of Friday, December 10, from 8 AM to 10.50 AM. Final Exams will NOT be rescheduled to accommodate individual travel plans


Class Requirements
  • ALL PAGERS AND CELL PHONES MUST BE TURNED OFF FOR THE DURATION OF THE CLASS. Please get into the habit of turning off cell phones and pagers before entering the auditorium
  • Please do not talk during class. The acoustics of the auditorium make even whispering audible
  • No food or drink allowed in the auditorium
  • Attendance is not only required but necessary for doing well in class. The final exam will draw from material presented during lectures. In addition you will be asked to summarize lectures as well
  • We may take attendance periodically. Missing more than three classes will automatically result in a grade penalty. Leaving early, or arriving late, will be counted as an absence
  • All excused absences need to be cleared in advance with the instructors or the TAs. Notify the graduate teaching assistants by email. Email addresses are posted on the GTA pages on cooldaze
  • Missing class for health reasons requires a note from a medical practitioner
  • Missing class will affect your performance on the Final Exam
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