Course Listing For EDES

EDES 3230. Design Communication III. 2 hours. 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: DESIGN COMMUN III.
Prerequisite: LAND 2220.
Traditional and computer media and resource access or material and cultural resource analysis, and land planning. Skill development in GIS, electronic communication, process and presentation graphics.
Offered fall semester every year.

EDES 4260/6260. Computer Rendering and Animation. 3 hours. 1 hour lecture and 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: CMPT REND AND ANIM.
Undergraduate prerequisite: EDES 3230 or LAND 6220.
Lecture/studio in the use of computer rendering and animation software for the visualization of site design and land planning projects.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 4270/6270. Environmental Design Uses of Geographic Information Systems. 3 hours. 1 hour lecture and 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: GIS IN ENV DESIGN.
Undergraduate prerequisite: EDES 3230 or LAND 6220.
Lecture/studio in the use of geographic information systems software for the development of environmental design and land planning projects.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 4610/6610. Vernacular Architecture. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: VERNACULAR ARCH.
Vernacular or folk architecture around the world and through history. Emphasis will be on how built form is a response to natural/physical and socio-cultural determinants. Both anthropological and art historical approaches to the subject will be explored.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 4630/6630. The History and Theory of Twentieth-Century Architecture. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIST 20TH CENT ARCH.
Undergraduate prerequisite: LAND 2520 or permission of school.
The major monuments and theories of world architecture from the early modern period to the present. Major monuments will be presented in slide lecture; theory in readings and discussions.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 4640/6640. The History of Urban Planning. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIST URBAN PLANNING.
Undergraduate prerequisite: (LAND 2510 and LAND 2520) or EDES 6510 or permission of school.
Major movements and monuments in the history of urban planning. The first half of the course will cover the world from ancient times to the present; the second half will focus on America from colonial times to the present.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 4650/6650. City Planning. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: CITY PLANNING.
The study of urban places. Planning processes and regulatory tools and techniques used by urban communities to achieve community goals and objectives.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 4660/6660. Environment and Behavior: Theory and Practice. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVIRNMNT BEHAVIOR.
The interactions and relationships between people and their physical environments. Focuses on the social, behavioral, and cultural aspects of design.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 4670/6670. History of Landscape Technology and Management. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: HIS LA TECH MANGMNT.
Undergraduate prerequisite: LAND 2520 or EDES 6510.
Technological influence upon attitudes toward nature and natural resources that result in a changed landscape.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 4680/6680. Conservation of Culturally Significant Resources in Rural Areas. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: CULT RES RURAL AREA.
Undergraduate prerequisite: Junior standing.
The cultural evolution of rural landscapes in the United States. Exploration of approaches and methodologies used in identifying and protecting significant features, both natural and cultural, in a constantly changing environment.
Not offered on a regular basis.

EDES 6510. Evolution of the American Landscape. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: AMERICAN LANDSCAPE.
Corequisite: LAND 6010.
The ways in which Americans of various historical periods and in diverse places have shaped the landscape to accommodate specific needs and to express cultural attitudes, values, and aspirations.
Offered fall semester every year.

EDES 6520. Ideas of the Garden. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: IDEAS OF THE GARDEN.
Corequisite: LAND 6020.
The garden as an archetypal concept through which different cultural groups have expressed their understanding of the world and of human history from ancient times to the present.
Offered spring semester every year.

EDES 6530. Ideas of Nature. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: IDEAS OF NATURE.
Corequisite: LAND 6030.
The idea of nature as a cultural construct that is continually subject to reappraisal and revision with critical implications for the environmental sciences, the design arts, and humanistic studies.
Offered fall semester every year.

EDES 6540. Ideas of Community and Place. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: IDEAS OF COMMUNITY.
Corequisite: LAND 6040.
The relationship between concepts of community and the physical environments (home, village, town, city, region) that may be designed in ways that foster personal and societal commitment to community and place.
Offered spring semester every year.

EDES 6550. History of the Built Environment I. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIS BLT ENVIRNMNT I.
Architecture and landscape from ancient times through the Renaissance. Emphasizes relationship between the built environment and culture, aesthetics, the environment.
Non-traditional format: Students attend three hours of lecture each week and take exams, plus one hour of discussion each week dealing with advanced readings in the field and write a paper grappling with research methods.
Offered fall semester every year.

EDES 6560. History of the Built Environment II. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIS BLT ENVRNMNT II.
Prerequisite: EDES 6550.
Architecture and landscape from the seventeenth century to the present. Emphasizes relationship between the built environment and culture, aesthetics, the environment.
Non-traditional format: Students attend three hours of lecture each week and take exams, plus one hour of discussion each week dealing with advanced readings in the field and write a paper grappling with research methods.
Offered spring semester every year.

EDES 7350. Landscape Management. 3 hours. 1 hour lecture and 4 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: LANDSCAPE MANAGEMNT.
Landscape management techniques with an emphasis on the values of environmental conservation and historic preservation.
Offered fall semester every year.

EDES 7550. Values in Environmental Design. 2 hours. 1 hour lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: VALUES IN ENV DES.
Corequisite: LAND 7050.
The societal values that attach cultural significance to some places but not others and the forms (scientific, literary, artistic) through which these judgements are promulgated or subverted.
Offered fall semester every year.