Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Urban Design

LAUNCHING FALL 2021

The only program in Texas and surrounding states

• Located within the 4th-largest metropolitan area in the nation
• Located within the Metropolitan Statistical Area with the highest demand by employers for bachelor’s-level sustainable design and urban planning professionals in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico.

The only program in the nation that incorporates all the disciplines necessary to bring an urban design project to fruition:

• Landscape Architecture
• Architecture
• Urban Planning
• Public Policy and Administration

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

A program whose innovative curriculum prepares students for the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of urban design with approximately 120 credit hours, including 18 hours of prescribed electives from over a dozen disciplines:

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• History of Urban Design, Form and Infrastructure
• Information and Data Visualization
• Landscape Architecture
• Sustainable Urban Communities
• Urban Climate Change Studio
• Urban Geography and Public Policy
• Urban Mobility Studio
• Urban Programming and Diagramming
• Urban Resiliency Studio

Capstone course supervised by UTA’s Director of Sustainability, utilizing the resources of UTA’s Institute of Sustainability and Global Impact.

The program prepares students to enter graduate programs in landscape architecture, urban planning, and public administration but the program is not a pre-professional architecture program. Therefore, graduates of the B.S. in Sustainable Urban Design will need to enroll in Path A of CAPPA’s Master of Architecture program or an equivalent at another institution.