Architecture: Community Equity Design

ARCHITECTURE: COMMUNITY EQUITY DESIGN

The Stackable Graduate Certificate in Architecture: Community Equity Design accommodates a growing interest in Community Equity Design among designers and diverse professionals to develop tools that can engage and foster design as a collaborative effort grounded in public interest design methodologies. As a result, students will not only become experts in Community Equity Design, they will become better equipped to address the world’s most pressing concerns regarding social, economic, and environmental issues of the built environment.

The stackable graduate certificate is open to any UT Austin degree-seeking graduate student and requires three classes (nine credit hours), including ARC 389 Research in Architecture, an individual instruction course. As part of the required ARC 389 Research in Architecture individual instruction course, students will be asked to engage in an off-campus design-research problem, working directly with an approved stakeholder in the region. 

Contact the Graduate Program Coordinator with any course registration questions or for more information. 

IMPORTANT:

  • ONLY the ARC graduate sections of the courses listed below may fulfill the Stackable Graduate Certificate requirements.
  • Please do not register for a cross-listing in another discipline or an undergraduate section. It is not possible to count any other section toward this Stackable Graduate Certificate. 

Contact the Graduate Program Coordinator with any course registration questions or for more information. 

REQUIRED: ARC 389 Research in Architecture

Students will be asked to engage in an off-campus design-research problem, working directly with an approved stakeholder in the region. As part of the course, students will take on the roles of both citizen and designer, organizing and attending stakeholder meetings, while conducting field research outside of the classroom setting. In addition to assigned readings and regularly-scheduled meetings with their instructor, students seeking the Certificate in Community Equity Design will be asked to submit a scholarly paper reflecting on lessons learned from their Independent Study Research Work.

SELECT TWO COURSES FROM:

Fall Courses

ARC 389 Research in Architecture (Required 1x)
ARC 386M Future and Cities
ARC 386M Ethics of Care
ARC 386M Poetics of Building

Spring Courses

ARC 389 Research in Architecture (Required 1x)
ARC 386M Race and Gender: By Design
ARC 388R Race and Place
ARC 386M Building Matters
ARC 386M Sustainability: Why This Way
ARC 386M Sustainable Architectural Design