Common First Year

 

All undergraduate students entering the College of Architecture proceed through the Common First Year (CFY) before entering one of three undergraduate programs: Architecture, Building Construction, and Industrial Design.

The CFY is comprised of three courses:

• COA 1060, a lecture course in the fall, and
• a sequence of two studio courses -- COA 1011 and COA 1012 -- in the fall and spring semesters.

 

The goal of the CFY is to foster a critical curiosity abut the designed and built environment. The curriculum is structured to give students the tools with which to engage the world around them.

The shared threshold offered by the CFY provides an education that is both empowering and edifying. Students not only get a sense of the different disciplines but they also become aware of the overlaps and connections between them.