Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies

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Dalhousie University

Comments about Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies - At the institution - Halifax - Nova Scotia

• Objectives
  BEDS is a senior undergraduate program that is preceded by at least two years of university studies in other subjects. It consists of two years of required architectural courses in design, representation, humanities, technology, and professional practice, plus a four-month co-op workterm.
• Academic title
  Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies
• Course description
  Year 5 - MArch
  M1 (academic term)
  (Design)
  (Humanities)
  (Technology)
  (elective)
  
  M2 (academic term)
  (Design)
  (Humanities)
  (Technology)
  (elective)
  
  M3 (work term)
  Prof. Practice (work term)
  
  M4 (work term)
  Prof. Practice (work term)
  
  Year 6 - MArch
  M5 (academic term)
  MArch Thesis Preparation
  (elective)
  (elective)
  (elective)
  
  M6 (academic term)
  MArch Thesis
  Professional Practice
  (elective)
  
  Graduate courses
  
  Design - core courses
  
      * Urban Housing Studio
      * Adaptive Reuse Studio
      * Urban Systems Studio
      * Material Detail Studio
      * Light Frame Building Studio
      * Landscape Studio
      * Transhistorical Studio
      * Ephemeral Architecture Studio
      * Public Architecture Studio
      * Coastal Studio
  
  Humanities - core courses
  
      * Housing Theory
      * Residential Real Estate Development
      * Urban Systems
      * History and Theory of Cities
      * International Sustainable Development
      * Theory and the Built Environment
      * Architectural Theory of the Enlightenment
      * Ephemeral Architecture
      * Architectural Exhibitions
      * Integrated Coastal and Ocean Planning
      * Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement
      * Humanities Seminar
  
  Technology - core courses
  
      * From Timber to Lumber
      * From Lumber to Structure
      * Composite Materials
      * Earth Construction
      * Natural Finishes
      * Light and Material
      * Acoustics
      * Energy Efficient Design
      * Life Cycle Analysis
      * The Construction Detail
      * From Principle to Detail
      * Facades
      * Tensile Architecture
      * Fabrication
      * Technology Seminar
  
  Electives
  
      * Design Seminar
      * Free Lab
      * Architecture and Archaeoastronomy
      * Humanities Seminar
      * Material Investigation
      * Material Investigation in Wood
      * Technology Seminar
      * Entrepreneurship
      * Permission to Build
      * Professional Practice Seminar
      * Graphic Design in Architecture
      * Painting in Architecture
      * Photography in Architecture
      * Montage in Architecture
      * Multimedia in Architecture
      * Spatial Constructions in Digital Video
      * Language as Representation
      * Alternatives to Perspective
      * Digital Form
      * Architectural Documentation and Analysis
      * Documentation and Reconstruction of Historic Buildings
      * Developments in Architectural Representation
      * Representation Seminar
  

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