Student Advising/CoAD
CoAD's student advising page is a collection of resources for students to use as they design their pathway to graduation. It highlights current elective courses and other forms related to advising. For more information or questions please speak to your academic advisor.
Summer 2024
DES2993 Special Topics: Fantastic Drawing with Adobe Fresco (with Ayako Aratani)
Monday and Wednesday 5:30 pm - 7:40 pm ONLINE
Students will explore the various digital drawing tools within Adobe Fresco, ranging from pens, pencils, markers, and watercolors, to airbrushes. We will start by drawing simple illustrations and progress to surreal products, fantastical characters, and absurd interiors and environments. This course will be conducted entirely via Zoom, and students are required to sign out a Huion tablet from the CoAD office over the summer or have their own digital drawing pad.
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR
Recommended: Anyone who wants to explore drawing skills in a creative environment
Recommended: Anyone who wants to explore drawing skills in a creative environment
DES4993 Special Topics: World Building for Mobile Devices (with Anthony Fox)
Monday and Wednesday 7:50-10:00 pm ONLINE
This course immerses students in the dynamic and rapidly evolving realm of mobile game world design, with a special focus on creating immersive experiences for Virtual Reality (VR) headsets. Students will explore the intersection of game design principles, mobile technologies, and VR platforms to conceptualize, develop, and deploy captivating game worlds tailored for handheld devices and VR headsets. Open to students in all design programs. A Quest 2 VR headset can be signed out for the summer from the CoAD office.
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR
Recommended: Upper year students with significant design background suggested.
Recommended: Upper year students with significant design background suggested.
DES4993/DES5993 Special Topics: Poster Modern, A Practical Application of Poster Design History (with Brendan Seyka)
Tuesday and Thursday 5:10 pm- 7:20 pm ONLINE
In this project-based course, students will create work that examines the evolving role of poster design from the Industrial Revolution through the Digital Revolution, and utilize the discovered techniques, insights, and timeless visual communication strategies to learn to effectively present their own work. This course will build presentation skills for all visual based design programs and a great way to augment your design communication skills.
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR, GR
Recommended: There is a graduate and undergraduate version of the class available
Recommended: There is a graduate and undergraduate version of the class available
DES4993/ARC5993 Resist! The impact of social uprising on the built environment (with Lizabeth Wardzinski)
Tuesdays 7:30-10:20 pm (synchronous/asynchronous) ONLINE seminar
Revolts, revolutions, and rebellions are traditional ways of demarcating accepted periods on societal and cultural timelines. This course examines how these events of resistance change our built environment by examining the causes and acts of resistance in history. We will analyze the social, political, and cultural contexts as a part of our deep exploration to discover what remains from these acts of resistance in our world today.
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR (DES), GR (ARC)
Recommended: There is a graduate and undergraduate version of the class available. Upper year students ssuggested.ARC 4XX3/5XX3 Special Topics: Improvisational Architecture
Wednesday, 7:30pm-11:35pm ONLINE
A rigorous introduction to hand drawing techniques that allow architects / designers to express ideas in real-time. The course will explore how to simplify complicated architectural concepts and translate them from the mind to the hand instantaneously. Research into various improvisational techniques outside of the field of architecture will be utilized to expand the student’s ability to subconsciously conceptualize, compose, and represent design solutions.
Prereqs: Intro to Vis Com and Vis Com (UG) or Vis Com (grad)
STUDY ABROAD - JAPAN (Undergraduate)
DES 3993 Special Topics: Tokyo - Immersive Design and Technology
Students will explore several immersive interactive technology and design projects that are currently happening in Tokyo, Japan. They will explore various hardware and software used in immersive technology as well as different applications of the technology. In addition to discovering projects and uses, students will create a self-directed project in Tokyo using AR, VR, XR, or video. In addition to using AR, XR, VR as a medium, students will also explore content of these projects, discovering the various roles design and technology can have on our lives.
Program Dates: June 1 – June 16 (2 weeks). For cost and schedule questions and information, please email Steve Coy ( scoy@ltu.edu )
Program Dates: June 1 – June 16 (2 weeks). For cost and schedule questions and information, please email Steve Coy ( scoy@ltu.edu )
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR only
STUDY ABROAD - JAPAN (Graduate)
DES 5993 Special Topics: Tokyo - Immersive Design and Technology
Students will explore several immersive interactive technology and design projects that are currently happening in Tokyo, Japan. They will explore various hardware and software used in immersive technology as well as different applications of the technology. In addition to discovering projects and uses, students will create a self-directed project in Tokyo using AR, VR, XR, or video. In addition to using AR, XR, VR as a medium, students will also explore the content of these projects, discovering the various roles design and technology can have on our lives.
Program Dates: June 1 – June 16 (2 weeks). For cost and schedule questions and information, please email Steve Coy ( scoy@ltu.edu )
Program Dates: June 1 – June 16 (2 weeks). For cost and schedule questions and information, please email Steve Coy ( scoy@ltu.edu )
Restrictions: GR only
ARC 3993 / ARC 6003
Special Topics: Guerilla Architecture and Humanitarian Design (with Scott Shall)
Tuesday 7:30 pm - 11:35 pm ONLINE
This course will look to renowned thinkers and makers, strategists and guerrillas, to unearth useful strategies for the activist, reformer and humanitarian. Students enrolled in the course will then act upon this position by realizing a coordinated series of small-scale interventions intended to aid a disadvantaged person or community group in or around our region. Through these conjoined acts – research and making – this course will investigate, evolve and redefine the methods, habits and potentials of both the guerrilla and architect. ARC 3843 / 5033 BIM for Building Systems (with Corbin Patten)
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR, GR only
Thursday 7:30pm – 11:35pm ONLINE
Introduction to Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools and techniques pertaining to structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and other service networks. BIM tools are applied to model the components of individual networks and gain an understanding of the integration of different networks within the building. The role of BIM as a collaborative platform between different disciplines in the building industry is explored
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR, GR only
Fall 2024
DES 3993 Special Topics: Social Connection and Technology (with Jessica Jordan)
Tuesday and Thursday 4:20pm to 5:35pm ONLINE
Artificial Intelligence is progressing rapidly and raising questions about human-computer connections and relationships. Social media has made us more connected than ever, yet studies continuously show that loneliness pervades the most tech-savvy generations. In this course, we will imagine how networks like families, communities, social networks, and infrastructure will change as technology grows and our society adapts to that growth. We will use key research around social networks, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction to develop hypotheses about the future of technology and the impact it will have on our relationships. The aim of this class is to discard current assumptions and think of future norms around technology and social connection. Class meetings include a mix of lecture, discussion, and collaborative group activities to test theories and techniques first hand.
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR only
INX 3993 Special Topics: Reimagining Resiliency, Securing Sustainability
Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm-4:40pm
The course will work with Architecture through a design project focused on sustainability to realize a project that achieves resiliency goals for energy and carbon. Focus will be on sustainable materials and life cycle analysis, principles of timber structural design to inform massing and architectural form, and design considerations for energy generation.
Co-listed with an architecture senior studio.
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR only
Recommended: JR and Sr Interior Design and Product Design
ART 3023 Photography (with Tryst Mallette)
Monday and Wednesday 11:00am-12:50pm ON GROUND
This course focuses on the use of the camera and darkroom as well as digital photographic processes. Students consider the creative and critical visual communication applications of photography.
Prerequisites: DES 1213
GRA 2223 Visual Culture (with Stefan Cieply)
Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am-10:45am
This course addresses the relationship between sight, knowledge, and power to consider the aesthetic and cultural value of images. Students learn to analyze the production, reception, and circulation of images to understand their visual meaning as well as social and cultural impact. Coursework addresses the visual world as manifested in design, art, architecture, popular media, and more, and draws from a variety of fields, including art and design history, media studies, critical theory, and philosophy.
Prerequisites: COM 1103
IDD 3993 Special Topics: Multimodal Prototyping (with Justin Famularo)
Monday and Wednesday 11:00am- 12:15pm
Advanced three-dimensional prototyping with a focus on moving outcomes between digital and physical mediums. Students will develop the ability to problem solve at scale and through different prototyping workflows. Outcomes will combine components with different material processes and properties as well as examine successful documentation techniques.
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR only
Prerequisites: At least two courses in 3D modeling - Rhino, Alias, Blender.
ARC 3993 Special Topics: Islamic Architecture
Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
This course surveys the history of architecture in the Islamic world spanning fifteen centuries, from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century to the present. Geographically, the course examines monuments and cities in Asia, Africa and Europe as well as North America. The survey studies key and representative architectural examples in their political, social and religious contexts. The course is organized chronologically tracing the spread of Islam introducing influential patrons, thinkers and designers. Architecture and Urban forms are the focus of the course but it also touches upon other related cultural and artistic forms such as ceramics, metalwork and textiles. The course presents Islamic architecture both as a full-fledged historical tradition and as a dynamic and interactive catalyst that influenced and was influenced by the civilization with which it came in contact.
Restrictions: SO, JR, SR only
ARC 5883 Special Topics: Psychology of Space
ONLINE
This elective course explores the intersection of psychology and architecture, examining how built environments influence human behavior, emotions, and well-being. Students will explore various aspects of space psychology, ranging from safety and well-being to happiness and remembrance. The course emphasizes the application of psychological principles in architectural design, with a focus on creating inclusive, supportive, and enriching spaces for diverse populations.
Restrictions: GRAD
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