The History of the Built Environment minor is designed to give students an awareness of the history of the built environment through a series of courses in history, architectural history, and cultural landscape. It is offered to all majors. The college’s purpose in offering minors is twofold: to provide a secondary focus to a student’s degree and to bring these additional courses together into a coherent pattern. This minor requires consultation with a faculty adviser in order to best meet this end.

For your minor to be added to your transcript, you must file the CED Minor Completion form with the Office of Undergraduate Advising in 250 Wurster Hall during the semester in which you complete your last class for the minor.

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Required Courses

A total of five courses must be completed as outlined below, all with a letter grade of C- or better.

• ARCH 170A (4) Historical Surveys of Architecture and Urbanism.
• ARCH 170B (4) Historical Surveys of Architecture and Urbanism.
• One upper-division, non-CED course with a focus on history and environmental design. Approval required by faculty minor adviser. Please bring proposed courses to the staff adviser listed above for initial review.
   

Two of the following:

• ENV DES 169A (3) Histories of the U.S. Cultural Environment
• ENV DES 169B (3) Histories of the U.S. Cultural Environment
• ARCH 173A (3) Modern Architecture
• ARCH C174 (3) Architecture in Depression and War
• ARCH 179 (3) Special Topics in the History of Architecture (various offerings each semester)
• LD ARCH 170 (3) History of Landscape Architecture (not applicable for landscape architecture majors)
• LD ARCH C181 The American Designed Landscape Since 1850
  
• CY PLAN 200 (3) History of City Planning (instructor approval required)