Programs of Study
The College confers degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Advertising Arts, and Painting. In June 2006, it has also opened graduate programs in Architecture, with majors in Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, and Architectural Science.
Bachelor of Science Architecture Program
The B.S. Architecture program spans the three-year Building Construction plus two more years of higher studies in Architectural Theory and Design. These professional courses place emphasis on design approaches sensitive to local conditions, utilizing basic and empirical data as starting point for design. Placement and time slot for a two-year practicum are built-in features of the five-year ladder type program. In the terminal year, a range of electives plus an undergraduate thesis complete the requirement for the B.S. Architecture degree.
Bachelor of Science Landscape Architecture Program
The B.S. Landscape Architecture Program is a four-year course program which equips students with theory as well as practical skills through training in architectural principles, planning and design, site engineering principles, Geology and soil sciences, plant materials, Ecology, drafting, surveying and mapping, construction detailing, water science and irrigation, natural and social sciences, preparing contracts and specification documents. Graduates of the program are expected to render excellent professional service in landscape design and capacities in implementing aesthetically-attuned landscape architecture projects.
The course curriculum shall be an integration of subjects offered under the Departments of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and Architecture.
Bachelor of Science in Interior Design
The curriculum starts with basic skills in technical drafting and design fundamentals. Students are expected to apply design concepts and philosophies to residential, commercial, and institutional interiors. They are also taught Furniture Design, Ergonomics, Psychology of Colors, Lighting, and the use of computers in design.
Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Advertising Arts
This program is a balance between traditional Fine Arts disciplines and more recent specializations of contemporary advertising design. Students learn from a broad range of skills training, ranging from courses that hone abilities to draw and paint to graphic design to photography and basic video production. The technical emphasis in these subjects is paralleled with an equally broad content of theoretical subjects, ranging from art history and appreciation to advertising theory.
Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Painting
Seemingly unaffected by the flux of postmodernism, the predominantly conservative faculty of the USC Painting program insists on time-honored traditions of naturalistic representation as foundation in art. The adherence to classical procedures and principles is not however the result of a more theoretically-bent neoconservatism, it is simply the conviction of the preeminence of the mastery of craft. Still, students are introduced to abstraction and the use of mixed media but greater emphasis is given to basic studio arts and the rudiments of outdoor painting. And do not ever think that you end up painting portraits and still lifes after graduating from this program. It is also probably the only university-based Painting curriculum with fashion design and visual merchandizing.
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