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 advisor in order to best meet this end.

Faculty Advisor: Any tenured CED faculty teaching a required minor course

Required Courses

1. ARCH 170A (4) Historical Surveys of Architecture and Urbanism. Architecture majors: Take an additional class from the list below.

2. ARCH 170B (4) Historical Surveys of Architecture and Urbanism. Architecture majors: Take an additional class from the list below.

3-5. Non-architecture majors: Two of the following. Architecture majors: Three 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 172 (3-4) Great Cities
• ARCH 173A (3) Modern Architecture
• ARCH 173B (3) Baroque Architecture
• ARCH 174A (3) American Architecture
• ARCH 174B (3) Vernacular Architecture
• ARCH 174C (3) San Francisco Architecture
• ARCH 175A (3) Pre-Columbian Architecture
• ARCH 175B (3) Islamic Architecture (formerly ARCH 175D)
• ARCH 175C (3) Japanese Architecture
• ARCH 179X (3) Proseminar in the History of Architecture
• LNS 122 (3) Renaissance Engineers
• LD ARCH 170 (3) History of Landscape Architecture (not applicable for landscape architecture majors)
• CY PLAN 200 (3) History of City Planning (instructor approval required)
   

6. Non-architecture majors: One upper division non-CED course with a focus on history. Approval required by minor advisor. Architecture majors: Two upper division non-CED courses with a focus on history. Approval required by minor advisor.