BA Architecture and Community Design

This Major draws from the University's diverse resources and faculty to form a unique interdisciplinary program of study with the aim to comprehend and influence our built environment and its relationship to the macrocosm through the discipline of design. Through this process we train students to become impassioned readers, interpreters, actors and designers of their cities, institutions, and communities. The major is a pre-professional degree program that satisfies the entrance requirements for graduate architecture and urban design programs at the nation's top universities. The curriculum combines an introduction to architecture, urban design, city planning, and landscape design with a strong emphasis on the social sciences and humanities. In the classroom, around San Francisco, and on international immersion trips, we train students to become impassioned readers, interpreters, actors, and designers of their cities, institutions, and communities.