Track 2: Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture, B.E.D.A.
A four-year pre-professional Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture degree (B.E.D.A.) intended for students who will pursue a professional master’s degree or enter a related field.
The commonalities between the disciplines of architecture and interior architecture provide the context for students in Marywood’s architecture and interior architecture programs to share professional core and elective courses, including the foundation design studios, as well as, digital media and the history of architecture courses.
All qualified students are accepted into the professional Bachelor of Architecture degree track. Students who wish to enter the pre-professional B.E.D.A. degree may transfer from the B.ARCH. prior to their fourth year.
B.E.D.A. (Four-year pre-professional degree) Program Requirements
First-year curriculum: 30 credits
Fall 1
| ARCH 110 | Foundation Design I | 4 |
| ARCH 112 | Introduction to the Designed Environment?And Design Thinking | 3 |
| RST 112 | Modern Belief | 3 |
| ENGL 160 | Composition and Rhetoric | 3 |
| UNIV 100 | Living Responsibly in an Interdependent?World | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 14 |
Spring 1
| ARCH 120 | Foundation Design II | 4 |
| ARCH 124 | Digital Media I | 3 |
| ARCH 125 | History and Theory of Architecture I | 3 |
| MATH 160 | Analysis of Functions (pre-Calculus) | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Second-year curriculum: 36 credits
Fall 2
Spring 2
| ARCH 220 | Design Studio IV | 6 |
| ARCH 225 | History and Theory of Architecture III | 3 |
| ENGL 180 | Introduction to World Literature | 3 |
| PHYS 140 | Physics for Architects | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Third-year curriculum: 33 credits
Fall 3
| ARCH 310 | Design Studio V | 6 |
| SOC 315 | Studies in Urbanization | 3 |
| LANGUAGE | Foreign Language I | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Spring 3
| ARCH 320 | Design Studio VI | 6 |
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| ARCH XXX | Program Elective | 3 |
| | Or | |
| IARC XXX | Program Elective | 3 |
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| LANGUAGE | Foreign Language II | 3 |
| FINE ARTS | Fine Arts Elective | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
FINE ARTS: Choose from ART 218 (Art in the Modern Era); FA 100 (Music, Art and the Contemporary World); FA 102 (Sound and Symbol in the Arts)
Fourth-year curriculum: 33 credits
Fall 4
| ARCH 410 | Design Studio VII | 6 |
| PHIL XXX | Philosophy Elective | 3 |
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| ARCH XXX | Program Elective | 3 |
| | Or | |
| IARC XXX | Program Elective | 3 |
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| HIST XXX | History Elective | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
PHIL XXX: Choose from PHIL 215 (Critical Thinking); PHIL 315 (Ethics); or PHIL 325 (Philosophy of Art)
HIST XXX: Global if Global Requirement has not been fulfilled previously
Spring 4
| ARCH 420 | Design Studio VIII | 6 |
| ENGL XXX | English Elective | 3 |
| RST XXX | Religion Elective | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
ENGL XXX: 300 or 400 level
Total Credit Hours: 132