Student Learning Outcomes

1. Develop a holistic understanding of the dynamic between built and natural environments with the goals of mitigating climate change responsibly by leveraging ecological, advanced building performance, adaptation, and resilience principles in their work and advocacy activities
2. Understand the role of the design process in shaping the built environment and develop the ability to make architectural design decisions that demonstrate the synthesis and thoughtful integration of human, technical, regulatory, and environmental demands and requirements
3. Understand established and emerging systems, technologies, and regulatory requirements of building construction as well as their underlying principles; develop skills to effectively and creatively integrate them into architectural designs; and assess them against pertinent design and performance objectives and legal requirements
4. Deepen students’ understanding of diverse human contexts and deepen student commitment to translating this understanding into healthy, safe, inclusive environments at multiple scales
5. Ensure that students understand the histories and theories of architecture and urbanism from multiple perspectives, framed by diverse social, cultural, economic, and political conditions
6. Develop skills and knowledge needed for the practice of architecture including its diverse career paths and opportunities, professional ethics, business processes, regulatory requirements, and principles for effective leadership and collaboration
7. Ensure a positive and respectful environment that encourages optimism, respect, sharing, engagement, and innovation among its faculty, students, administration, and staff
8. Develop skills to critically and meaningfully understand and engage, through research, design, and other forms of creative inquiry, the role and agency of architectural design for possible, probable, and preferable futures

B.Arch Degree Requirements

Students must meet the curriculum requirements as they appear in the online course catalog for the academic year in which they entered Syracuse University.  Please see your academic advisor if you have any questions/concerns.

Students matriculating in Fall 2025 or later, must meet the following curriculum requirements.

Total: 157 credit hours

Minors

Architecture students may choose to pursue one of the many minors available on campus. Most minors consist of 18-credit programs and some must be taken in a particular sequence. Because of the limited number of non-architecture elective credits contained in the B.Arch program, careful planning is necessary for architecture students to complete a minor. Minors that are too closely related to the major will not be approved. Minors require a minimum of 18 credit hours, 12 of which must be in 300- to 400-level coursework.