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Three professional core courses, History of Architecture I, II, and III, introduce students to architecture as a product of cultural forces, including power structures, social concerns, and environmental factors. Learning to recognize how these forces functioned in the past is essential to perceiving their workings in our environment today. History is not a static data bank of buildings but a fluid continuum to which architects and architectural historians contribute through every narrative they write, every structure they preserve, every edifice they design, and every building they critique.

The school regularly offers seminars covering topics that range from urban form to great monuments of history to global vernacular traditions. Historic preservation and historical methodology complete the program’s goals of preparing well-rounded graduates to contribute thoughtfully and imaginatively to the architectural culture of the world community. Course offerings include seminars on

• St. Peter’s and the Vatican – 320 to 1950
• Italian Architecture: Renaissance to Contemporary
• Medieval Architecture and Global Cultures
• American Building
• Architecture of the Americas
• Architecture and Identity in Mexico from the Aztecs to Independence
• House Culture
• The City in American Art and Culture
• Architectural Preservation and Restoration

School of Architecture courses are complemented by offerings in related fields in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, such as Roman domestic space, art history, and film studies.