10/26/2026
Spring 2027 course registrations are opening soon! Here is a list of our Spring 2027 BSSD major courses to help you navigate through the planning and registration process!
To learn more about the BSSD curriculum, all major required and elective courses, visit the BSSD Guidebook: https://go.illinois.edu/SDGuidebook
ARCH 172: Intro to Design II:
Principles, concepts and theories of architectural design and their spatial experience are explored. Students are introduced to methods of observation and documentation of the environment and associated activities and behaviors. Students develop techniques for analyzing and designing relationships between programs, people, and places.
UP 136: Urban Sustainability:
Provides students with a basic understanding of how to make cities more sustainable by connecting how and where we live to environmental issues. Emphasis on green infrastructure and urban systems, vulnerability and resilience, green design and construction methods, energy production and consumption, and water conservation.
ARTH 211: Design History Survey:
The historical, social and cultural context of design concentrating on manufactured products, communication, media and design from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Lectures, seminars and individual research projects.
ARTF 102: Observational Drawing:
Theory and practice in observational drawing with emphasis on fundamental principles such as mark/line, shape/form, space/composition, linear/perspective, scale/proportion, value/tonal range, and pattern/texture.
FAA 330: Making Sustainable Design:
Introduction to techniques and tools for representing and realizing sustainable design ideas. Using a case study method, students are introduced to digital and analog means of representing concepts, data, and spatial forms. Through hands-on assignments, tutorials, and workshops, students learn basic skills to express ideas graphically and in three dimensions.
