Certificates

Focus your studies with a specialization in one of our certificate offerings.

Pursue a Specialized Course of Study

Certificate programs require 15 hours of focused study, which can be accommodated within the degree plan without additional coursework. There are two patterns of study for the certificates: studio + three seminars or five seminars.

Certificates are opportunities to add a specialization to a graduate degree in architecture. The areas of specialization offered by the School of Architecture reflect faculty depth in a particular area of inquiry. Interested students should apply to the certificate program before their last semester. The certificates are also available to non-degree seeking students.

Graduate Certificate in City Design

The Graduate Certificate in City Design focuses on design at the scale of the city, and within neighborhoods and urban districts. Studios and seminars focus on the, challenges, and opportunities facing communities and cities in the 21st century, with a particular emphasis upon principles of sustainability and urban ecology.

Graduate Certificate in Energy + Technology in Architecture

The intent of this certificate program is to provide students the opportunity to focus their elective studies in the area of energy and technology in architecture. This is accomplished through courses and design studio(s) that are focused on building energy systems along with other building systems.

Graduate Certificate in Public Interest Design

The Public Interest Design graduate-level certificate program will provide education in a participatory and issue-based design practice that places emphasis on the “triple bottom line” of design that includes environmental, economic, and social challenges across the world. The curricular content, which is research, classroom and field-based, exposes students and professionals to use design to address a range of critical challenges that communities face in the world.

Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design Certificate

The imperative motivating the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design is to educate the next generation of practitioners and scholars to apply knowledge gained in the class room and in the field to reduce the rise in disaster losses and assist communities adapt to a changing climate.

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Graduate Concentration in the History + Theory of Architecture

The Graduate Concentration in the History + Theory of Architecture allows students to build a broader knowledge and a deeper understanding of the questions of architecture, urbanism, and the built environment. With these critical methods of analysis that the discipline of architecture shares with a variety of other disciplines, the students learn to think, write, and design in an interdisciplinary manner, ultimately bringing these analytical tools to shape their work in the design studio.