Course Descriptions
Architectural Studies
Courses Offered in Recent Years
Required Core Courses
History of Architecture Theory, Seminar, Internship, Portfolio
Required Visual Skills Courses
Foundation Design, Foundation Drawing, Foundation Sculpture, Perspective Drawing
Architectural History Courses
Introduction to Architecture, Introduction to Architecture Writing Practicum, Ancient Cities Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture, Pittsburgh Architecture and Urbanism, Approaches to the Built Environment, Greek Architecture, Roman Architecture, English Medieval Architecture, Romanesque Architecture, Gothic Architecture, Early Renaissance Architecture, High Renaissance Architecture, Art and Architecture of the 18th Century, Ealy American Architecture, Modern American Architecture, Issues of Authority in Japanese Art and Architecture, History of Chinese Architecture, World Cities, Introduction to Historic Preservation, Space for Art: Rethinking the Campus Core, CAD Tutorial, Florence Cathedral: Text and Context, Senior Thesis
Architecture Writing Seminars (HAA 1010)
Medieval Art and Architecture, Gendered Space in the Greek City, Pittsburgh Architecture and Urbanism, Berlin: Episodes in Architectural History
Related Courses
Analytical Geometry and Calculus 1,
Analytical Geometry and Calculus 2,
Introduction to Physics 1,
Introduction to Physics 2,
Basic Physical Science and Engineering 1 (Integrated),
Basic Physical Science and Engineering 2 (Integrated)
HAA 0040 Introduction to Western Architecture
This course introduces students to the art of architecture from the ancient world until today, emphasizing the western tradition. The course works both chronologically as a history of phases and styles, and methodologically, examining the contextual issues that give each period a distinctive architecture. Students who take this course will learn to understand and make critical judgments on buildings and be ready for more specialized studies in the history of architecture.
HAA 0041 Introduction to Architecture Writing Practicum
This section is an optional adjunct to HA&A 0040 (Introduction to Architecture). Students who wish to take it must register for HA&A 0040, CRN 12295 also, including one of the regular weekly section meetings. This special writing section will concentrate on conceptualizing and articulating architecture, both in standing buildings--primarily in Pittsburgh--and in historical architecture. Writing, reading, and rewriting are key elements in the course.
HAA 0100 Special Topics (Ancient) - Ancient Cities
Cities and their Architecture embody the personal goals and collective values of the planners, patrons, and people who occupy them. This course will survey the archaeological and literary evidence for ancient cities of the Near East (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Anatolia) and Mediterranean area (Greece, Italy), emphasizing the form of the city and its monuments as cultural ideas and as responses from planners, architects, and patrons to recurring problems, such as: the creation of distinctive architectural forms and urban spaces, problems that arise from the structural limitations of traditional materials and/or building methods, and the need to deal with large-scale projects economically, though the use of new materials, new construction methods, or new systems of organization.
HAA 0440 Frank Lloyd Wright
The course is an introduction to the major works of architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright, whose career spans much of the 20th century. His incomplete projects and goals to create an American-style architecture will be compared to his interests in Far Eastern architecture and the European art movements like Cubism and Bauhaus architecture.
HAA 0480 Modern Architecture
From the late eighteenth century, new processes and cultural phenomena that may be globally described as effects of modernization have impinged on architectural design and urban planning throughout the world. The development of new technologies and materials, of colonial expansion and extensive state planning in the 19th century, of multi-national corporations and sprawling urban centers in the 20th century, continue to reshape societies and environments. Through case studies of texts, monuments and sites, this course will investigate the consequences of these trends on architectural design and thought from 1800 to the 20th century.
HAA 0510 Pittsburgh Architecture and Urbanism
This course seeks to understand how we shape the physical environment of Pittsburgh, and how it shapes us. We will look at the physical environment of Pittsburgh: the topography, early patterns of settlement, the expansion of its industrial center, the creation of residential neighborhoods, the post-War renewal, and the urban implications of the current shift from production to a service-based economy. But the course goes beyond the book to study Pittsburgh's long-term urban patterns over the past few centuries, and how they created the Pittsburgh we see today. The "detail" in these patterns comes from our parallel study of the history of Pittsburgh architecture. Students will write a short paper--more impressionistic than research-based--on one of these urban issues.
HAA 0900 Special Topics (Architectural Studies) - Approaches to the Built Environment
Approaches to the Built Environment, an introductory course designed for Architectural Studies majors, is meant to complement HAA 0040: Introduction to Architecture. Through a series of units dealing with different architectural issues and building types (Representation; Landscape; Dwelling; Commerce and Industry; Public Institutions; Sacred Spaces), students will be introduced to ideas and problems that affect the way in which the built environment has been and continues to be shaped in a variety of historical and cultural contexts. We will think broadly about how the spaces that people move through and inhabit in their daily lives shape and are shaped by human behavior, cultural identity, political experience, and the currents of historical circumstance. Contemporary buildings and projects will figure prominently as examples of how designers currently approach architectural, structural and urban problems. Local sites will serve as case-studies for the analysis of different aspects of the built environment. This class is taught in a seminar format with students evaluated on their class participation and assigned projects. Readings and projects will introduce students to a variety of techniques for analyzing and representing the built environment, providing the basic tools for subsequent architectural research and studies.
HAA 1010 Approaches to Art History - Approaches to Medieval Art & Architecture
This course will consider some major recent exhibitions of medieval art in terms of what was selected, why, and what historical, social, and artistic issues were addressed in the catalogues. The class will study and visit the Burgundian exhibition to be held in Cleveland this Fall as a major part of the course. Each student will prepare oral and written reports on selected objects from these exhibitions and will write a research paper.
HAA 1010 Approaches to Art History - Gendered Space in the Greek City
Although we are all conscious of the relationship between gender and the (comfortable) use of space within our own cultures, being aware of and understanding the interplay of gender and space in a culture not our own is much more difficult. The difficulty is magnified if the culture is an ancient one that cannot be visited or experienced directly. The course will explore the evidence available and the methods used to reconstruct the relationship between gender and space in the Greek city—literature, ethnography, archaeology, and art historical analysis.
HAA 1010 Art History - Pittsburgh Architecture and Urbanism
This undergraduate research seminar will overhaul the instructor's book, PITTSBURGH: AN URBAN PORTRAIT with new neighborhood and building updates, new photography and maps, and entirely new urban "issues" like downtown housing, the fight over where to put gambling, conflicts over the Mon-Fayette expressway, and how to reshape the city to attract (or keep) young people. Students will learn much about Pittsburgh, but the real subject is how to conduct research, and encapsulate it in elegant writing. HAA 1010 is offered every fall and spring term, but specific topics change every semester.
HAA 1010 Approaches to Art History – Berlin: Episodes in Architectural History
A consideration of the significant public and monumental structures and spaces that define Berlin will be considered in this seminar: Unter den Linden, the Reichstag, Museum Insel, Alexanderplatz, Potsdamer Platz, the Kulturforum, the Berlin Wall. We will trace the history of modern Berlin through these spaces, from its origins through the city's emergence as the capital of an Imperialist power, from the turbulent Weimar period through the grandiose plans of the Third Reich, to the Cold War when the city was severed in two. Particular focus will be given to the growth pangs that have reshaped the city in the last two decades since the fall of the wall resulted in an unprecedented opportunity to redefine a city from its core. Major contemporary architects, including Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Peter Eisenman, Piano and Rogers, Helmut Jahn, IM Pei, and Frank Gehry, have flexed their muscles here in monumental corporate, governmental and public projects that have attempted to redefine the city for a new century. A close examination of the controversial work of Libeskind (The Jewish Museum) and Eisenman (The Holocaust Memorial) however, will explore how difficult it is to disentangle the new world capital from its violent past. Approaches to Art History is restricted to History of Art and Architecture Majors, and is an intensive writing and reading seminar limited to 15 students. Each student will be expected to present oral and written critical evaluations of the assigned texts as well as produce a significant research paper. HAA 1010 is offered every fall and spring term, but specific topics change every semester.
HAA 1040 History of Architecture Theory
History of Architectural Theory is an upper level reading course that is required for all students wishing to graduate from the University of Pittsburgh with a major in architectural studies. The objective of the course is to acquaint students with architectural writing as a literary genre, to examine the emergence and development of core ideas in the Western architectural tradition, and to understand the relationship between architectural ideas and the cultural, political and social contexts in which they were articulated. Texts examined in the course will include classic architectural treatises, texts on landscape, urbanism and aesthetics, and novels in which architecture is a dominant theme. Drawings, engravings, photography and illustrations will be considered as important components of architectural theory; the format and composition of architectural books will be considered as integral to the ideas they contain. Texts from antiquity to the present will be examined, including the writings of Vitruvius, Alberti, Serlio, Palladio, Perrault, Laugier, Boullee, Pugin, Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Jane Jacobs and Robert Venturi.
HAA 1100 Special Topics (Ancient) - Greek Architecture
Greek architecture has a familiar look to it since the formal vocabulary, and the problems of spatial organization, proportion, and statics that were formulated by Greek architects of the archaic and classical periods had a major impact on the development of later European and American architecture. Rather than focusing on the influence of Greek architecture, however, the course will examine the development of this tradition within its original, ancient setting, looking in particular at the mix of cultural and historical factors that resulted in the "look" that we associate with this formal building tradition today.
HAA 1160 Roman Architecture
The course will examine the development of Roman architecture from its origins in Etruria and Central Italy to the High Empire (ca. 150 AD). Special attention will be given to 1) the relationship of architectural forms, types and functions to changes in Roman politics and society, 2) the significance of materials and outside influences for the development of local Italian traditions and forms, and 3) the problems of interpreting the development of an ancient building tradition, when the monuments themselves are so fragmentarily preserved.
HAA 1235 English Medieval Architecture
This Honors Seminar, cross-listed as HAA 2200 for graduate credit, focuses on the portion of Canterbury Cathedral that was built in the early years of the pilgrimage cult of St. Thomas Becket, itself the context for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Constructed between 1174 and 1184, the Early Gothic choir of Canterbury is held to be the earliest Gothic structure in England and the one there that most nearly resembles the French originators of this style. The history of this choir is informed by the most varied array of primary documents that exists for any medieval structure and the changes in the design that still can be seen in the building demonstrate that the history of its construction was unusually complex. Both the documents and the archaeology of the structure offer an unrivaled opportunity for detective work in the exploration of a building and it dramatic story.
HAA 1240 Romanesque Architecture
This course will deal primarily with the churches and secondarily with the castles and houses surviving in Western Europe from the first mature period of post-Antique Europe, 1050-1200. It marks the development of sophisticated building techniques and offers the opportunity to sample a rich variety of regional design types.
HAA 1250 Gothic Architecture
This course examines the Gothic cathedral from a number of angles: how it was built; what makes it stand up; what medieval patrons, artists, and facilitators had to say about it; its functional requirements as a liturgical center; and how this mode of architecture developed. Assigned readings will be taken from a text and from a variety of sources. Students will also be expected to write a paper of about ten pages or carry out an equivalent creative project.
HAA 1305 Early Renaissance Architecture
The Early Renaissance (1420-1500) in Italy marked a fundamental change in the way mankind saw and thought about the world and their built environment. This course examines the buildings, cities, projects, and theories of that period through its major designers. It concentrates on the new acceptance of rationality and modular linkage in building, which prefigures the rationality and scientific method characteristic of the modern world.
HAA 1306 High Renaissance Architecture
The architecture of the High Renaissance and Mannerism (from about 1500 to about 1580 in Rome and other centers of Italy) changed forever the face of architecture. This course begins with epochal projects by Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo and (on paper) Leonardo da Vinci. It then follows the mutation of High Renaissance ideals into Mannerism and the dispersion of both styles in northern Italy, particularly in town planning and in the villas and churches of Andrea Palladio around Venice. We end with a survey of what the Renaissance style looked like when it was exported to France, Spain, Germany, and England.
HAA 1405 Art & Architecture of the Eighteenth Century
The discovery of Pompeii, the beginnings of industrial architecture, fierce rationalism in the architectural theory of neoclassicism, far-out romanticism in "instant ruins" that were built in England and France, the luxuriousness of French and German Rococo, the towering strength of buildings by LeDoux and Boulee--what era promised more (and delivered much) in its buildings than the eighteenth century? Like its architecture, the 18th-century was as wildly contradictory and dynamic in its painting and art criticism. Lush eroticism in Fragonard and Boucher meets the stern Republican classicism of David, the nightmarish visions of the Sturm und Drang, the natural elegance of Vigée-Lebrun, the longing of Winckelmann, the penetrating gaze of Joseph Wright of Derby, Goya’s macabre condemnations, and Romanticism’s unrequited search for solace in nature. In this age of Revolution, these were the birth-pangs of the modern era as art, the role of the artist and the function of art in public life were redefined. This course traces these shifts, eruptions, conflicts and developments through the “long” 18th-century, 1700-1825, with special emphasis on its unruliness, and on the interchange of architecture, painting, art theory and criticism.
HAA 1530 Early American Architecture
Architecture often serves as a prime document and indicator of America's past and future. The theme of this course is the search for identity in American architecture in the centuries from the colonial settlements to the Civil War. The course studies both the recorded history of American architecture and the unrecorded millennium before that, to show its surprising cohesion in the face of great cultural and territorial diversity. The first part of the course particularly stresses archaeological evidence and historic preservation; throughout the course the instructor and the students will together be "reading" the buildings both for their own visual pleasures and as documents of American society.
HAA 1531 Modern American Architecture
By the time the Civil War ended in 1865, traditional American architectural values had broken down under a barrage of ornament and imported European styles. Something new had to take shape to express the new wealth of post-Civil War America and the new social order that went with it. The next 135 years would see a succession of brilliant architects in Furness, Richardson, the early skyscraper builders in Chicago, Sullivan, the firm of McKim, Meade and White, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies, Kahn, Venturi, Moore, Gehry, Predock, Holl, Arquitectonica, and the pluralists of today. At the same time, these successes also masked major problems: spoiling the land; architecture as social welfare; and the concern for national and regional values as expressed in building. These individual successes and collective problems will constitute the underlying theme of the course.
HAA 1601 Special Topics (Japanese) - Issues of Authority in Japanese Art and Architecture
This course will examine Japanese buildings, sculpture, and paintings as mediums for creating metaphors of meaning and as vehicles for the expression of authority. The objects that we will study represent a wide range of historical time-periods and include ancient Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, and decorated palaces, castles, and mausolea.
HAA 1630 History of Chinese Architecture
This course is designed to study Chinese architecture and society by considering such topics as: the Chinese idea of space; the beginnings and growth of Chinese cities, including Imperial centers, buildings and building programs, palaces, administrative centers, capital complexes, trade centers, and royal gardens; religious centers and buildings, including Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian buildings; and domestic buildings and the art of fengshui in practice.
HAA 1880 World Cities
What is a city? The sociologist, the anthropologist, the political scientist, the regional planner, and the geographer all see cities from their different perspectives. But the art historian has an important contribution too: cities have been seen for millennia as works of art. Even cities as seemingly "messy" as Las Vegas or Calcutta have an urban form that the art historian can decipher with special expertise. This course looks at the city, both Western and non-Western, to discover its main patterns of urban form and development. Through lectures and discussions, students derive the basic format by which to analyze these patterns. Pittsburgh itself serves as one of several "test cases" in piecing together that format. (If practicable, students will use camcorders to record their visual impressions of it.) Lectures and readings give students the chronological and typological base from which to sharpen their own analytical skills. The principles derived in the early sessions will be used in the final course segment, in which students work on the form and growth of world cities they have selected to study.
HAA 1910 Special Topics (Architecture) - Intro to Historic Preservation
Introduction to Historic Preservation will explore the goals, methods, and practice of preserving the historic built environment in the United States. History of the preservation movement, tools and tactics for protecting buildings and landscapes, documentation of historical/architectural significance, and more. This course provides students with a broad background in the field of historic preservation and introduces the skills needed to work as a professional in this field.
HAA 1910 Speical Topics (Architecture) - Space for Art: Rethinking the Campus Core
The transformation of Schenley Plaza (scheduled for completion in May 2006) highlights some of the underlying complexities of planning a university campus in an urban environment. This design studio will take as its focus the core of the University of Pittsburgh, defined as the area surrounding Schenley Plaza and the Cathedral of Learning. In the first part of this course, students will undertake case studies of university buildings and campuses in North America, and will work collaboratively on a detailed analysis of the architecture and landscape features of the University of Pittsburgh. This knowledge will then be applied to a final project, in which each student will design a new fine arts center for the university south of Schenley Plaza, adjacent to the Frick building.
HAA 1910 Special Topics (Architecture) - CAD Tutorial
An introduction to the graphic communication of architectural documents utilizing computer aided drafting (CAD) techniques. This introductory CAD course is designed to give students a working knowledge of the AutoCAD drafting system. The course has been designed to better acquaint students with concepts, processes and skills required by professionals in the field to create and modify computer-generated drawings. Students will learn the commands and functions necessary to input, process and output two dimensional working drawings in the form of plans, elevations and sections. Three-dimensional visualization will also be covered as a means to explore massing and proportion. In addition to the fundamental design methods and practices for the creation of architectural drawings, exercises will focus on fundamental concepts such as scaling, dimensioning, annotating as well as maintenance of CAD drawing files through the use of operating system commands.
HAA 1911 Architectural Seminar: Monographic Topics - Florence Cathedral: Text and Context
This special seminar introduces students to the objectives, methods, and results of one of Europe’s most ambitious archaeological excavations. Between 1965 and 1980 these excavations – mainly under the direction of the course instructor – located the remains of Early Christian cathedral of S. Reparata (ca. 500 AD) buried below the successor cathedral of S. Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy. The total scope of what was found involved sixteen centuries (first century BC through 15th century AD) at the heart of one of Europe’s great cities, from a Roman house through three stages of a church, to the building of the existing cathedral. The seminar will work in four main disciplines: liturgy (church ritual both inside the building and in the streets of medieval Florence); scientific archaeology; art history; and social and political history. The liturgical documents and the archaeological evidence provide the “text” of the course; the art-historical and historical interpretations are the “context.” Text and content together offer findings not only rich to look at but significant enough to modify or revise much of the history of Florence between the eras of Augustus and Dante.
HAA 1900 Architectural Studies Internship
Academic credit is awarded for practical professional experience gained through a directed internship. The internship is arranged by the student through the Architectural Studies Office (104 Frick Fine Arts Building) in consultation with the Academic Advisor or the Director of Architectural Studies. Open to advanced Architectural Studies majors with a QPA of 2.75 or higher. Students must consult with the undergraduate advisor and program director to get approval for the internship.
HAA 1913 Architectural Studies Seminar
This course introduces a fundamental approach to architectural design. Through a continuous sequence of design projects, students will learn to develop a set of principles that inform/dictate the production of architecture. These principles will be used to clarify the interrelationship of geometry, form, and composition, thus defining a systematic strategy for an architectural solution. Additionally, various methodologies, including case study analysis, site analysis, analytical diagramming, and strategic programming, will be taught in order to further inform this solution. The design principles, in coordination with the methodologies, will allow students develop an understanding of the complex relationship between design practice and architectural discourse. Finally, a range of drawing and model-making skills will be introduced as a means of seeing, understanding and presenting.
HAA 1913 Architectural Studies Seminar - Contextual Mapping
This studio is concerned with context as a potential driver for architectural proposals and examines the profound interrelationship between architecture and the environment. This studio will introduce concepts that define ways in which architecture can both inform and be informed by the urban fabric into which it is woven. Qualities of site, situation, and cultural context are emphasized, raising issues that may challenge generally accepted and conventional approaches to architectural and urban design. Intensive site research will yield data meant to motivate new elemental constructs, programs, and organizational systems. Design and representation techniques will also be introduced to equip students to better explore the existing and emerging patterns of a new progressive architecture.
HAA 1915 Architectural Studies Portfolio
This course is offered to help Architectural Studies majors prepare a portfolio for purposes of applying to a graduate architecture program or a job. Students work individually and consult with the instructor by appointment. There will be one mandatory informational meeting at the beginning of the term. Contact the instructor for date and time.
HAA 1950 Senior Thesis
This W-course requires the writing of a research paper. The student should discuss a topic with a faculty member and write the paper under that faculty member's supervision. This course is open to History of Art and Architecture majors with an overall QPA of 3.5 and a departmental QPA of 3.5. Successful completion of this course with a A- or higher, and the completion of all requirements for the intensive major will enable the student to graduate with departmental honors.
SA 0110 Foundation Design
This course is a survey of concepts, methods, and issues of Design as a vehicle of visual organization, structure, thought, and expression. The broad scope of the subject is explored through lectures, discussions, critiques, and the process of making images, and objects. Students are introduced to the dynamics of composition, form and content, color systems and theory, aesthetic issues, visual analysis, perception, spatial structure and the value of visual awareness and creativity in an increasingly image-oriented culture. The course also seeks to provide some experience with a variety of media, develop skills in observation and technique, and encourage personal involvement in resolving a visual problem or expressing an idea. Projects focus on specific concepts, preparation and planning, and creative visual thinking. The course offers a relevant introduction and insight into the process of making art. This course is open to art majors and non-art majors. The course requires the purchase of art materials and supplies. There is a $15.00 lab fee.
SA 0130 Foundation Drawing
Foundation Drawing is designed to give both majors and non-majors a comprehensive introduction to the art of drawing. The course approaches drawing as a unique graphic and expressive medium rather than as a preliminary or planning process. The course begins from the point of view that the expressive and interpretative potential of drawing can be achieved at the beginning level when knowledge of drawing media and techniques are fused with personal vision and creativity. Drawing 0130 follows a sequence of studies that introduce students to basic drawing media and compositional elements through observation of natural and manufactured forms. The course culminates with an introduction to the human figure. There is a $15.00 lab fee.
SA 0140 Foundation Sculpture
Foundation-Sculpture is a broadly based course that introduces students to the expressive potential of modeled and constructed form. Throughout the course, students experience a variety of sculpture techniques and materials in projects that study certain characteristics of natural and abstract form. The principle goals of the course are to develop skills and to provide a basis for individual creative development. From this course, students should gain sensitivity in the observation of form, develop analytic and compositional skills and begin to formulate ideas through practical experience. The individual must purchase basic sculpture tools. There is a $20.00 lab fee.
SA 1430 Perspective Drawing
This course is designed to provide the student with a working knowledge of the fundamental theories of linear perspective and the role they play in the development of a drawing. The focus is on understanding how these conventions work as an integral part of the drawing process and how to apply them to specific applications. Throughout the term, the class will progress from setting up simple drawings to more complex perspectival compositions. Art materials will be assigned at the beginning of the term. There is a $15 lab fee.
MATH 0220 Analytical Geometry and Calculus 1
This is the first course in the basic calculus sequence and is intended for all mathematics, engineering, science, and statistics students. Math 0220 covers the derivative and integral of functions of a single variable. A lab component in which students apply numeric, algebraic, and graphing technologies to calculus problems is an integral part of the course. For addition information refer to the web page http://calculus.math.pitt.edu. A scientific calculator is required, preferably a graphing calculator. One-letter grade rule applies if there is a common final exam.
MATH 0230 Analytical Geometry and Calculus 2
This is the second course in the basic calculus sequence and is intended for all mathematics, engineering, science, and statistics students. Math 0230 covers symbolic and numerical integration techniques and applications, modeling, differential equations, and Taylor series. A lab component in which students apply numeric, algebraic, and graphing technologies to calculus problems is an integral part of the course. For addition information, refer to the web page http://calculus.math.pitt.edu. A scientific calculator is required, preferably a graphing calculator. One-letter grade rule applies if there is a common final exam.
PHYS 0110 Introduction to Physics 1
This is the first term in a two-term lecture-demonstration sequence that presents the elements of both classical and modern physics. The emphasis of the course is on a clear understanding of the underlying principles rather than on mathematical formalism and problem-solving (although some attention is given to these aspects of physics). This course is appropriate for non-science majors, and for those majoring in the social, psychological and life sciences that do not need the more mathematically oriented course required of engineering and physical science students (Physics 0174,0175). The introductory laboratory course to be associated with this sequence is Physics 0212 (see below) which should be taken after Physics 0110. Credit will not be given for both this sequence and the Physics 0174, 0175 sequence. Subjects covered in the course include: kinematics; Newtonian mechanics; heat and thermodynamics; kinetic theory.
PHYS 0111 Introduction to Physics 2
This is the second term in a two-term lecture-demonstration sequence that presents the elements of both classical and modern physics. The emphasis of the course is on a clear understanding of the underlying principles rather than on mathematical formalism and problem-solving (although some attention is given to these aspects of physics). This course is appropriate for non-science majors, and for those majoring in the social, psychological and life sciences that do not need the more mathematically oriented course required of engineering and physical science students (Physics 0174,0175). The introductory laboratory course to be associated with this sequence is Physics 0212 (see below). Credit will not be given for both this sequence and the Physics 0174, 0175 sequence. Subjects covered in the course include: waves; electricity and magnetism (electrostatics to electromagnetic waves); geometrical and physical optics; relativity; and quantum physics.
PHYS 0174 Basic Physical Science and Engineering 1 (Integrated)
The first term in a two-term introductory lecture-demonstration sequence in physics for science and engineering students. Calculus is used as needed and should be taken at least concurrently. Credit will not be given for both this sequence and the Physics 0110,0111 sequence. Subjects covered in Physics 0174 include: kinematics; Newton's laws of motion; energy; momentum, rotational motion, rigid body motion, angular momentum, simple harmonic motion, gravitation, mechanical waves, sound waves, and the kinetic theory of gases.
PHYS 0175 Basic Physical Science and Engineering 2 (Integrated)
This is the second term in a two-term (0174 and 0175) introductory sequence in physics for science and engineering students. Subjects covered in Physics 0175 include: electrostatics, electric currents, magnetism, induction, simple AC circuits, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, geometric and wave optics, followed by an introduction to quantum physics, including photons, the Bohr atom and spectra, and elementary wave mechanics. Students planning to major in physics are urged to take the equivalent honors course (Physics 0476).