What are Liberal Art Schools?

tk21769
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:33:31 +0000

Architecture is pre-professional and narrow, like engineering.



A Bachelor of Architecture is a professional degree, but a B.A. in architecture is not. Yale and Princeton both offer the latter as a liberal arts degree (not a terminal educational qualification to practice architecture.) A number of LACs offer “pre-architecture”, “architectural studies”, or some such (sometimes as a track within History of Art); none, as far as I know, offers the B.Arch. degree (unless in a 3+2 cooperative program with larger schools). As preparation for graduate school in architecture, these B.A.programs typically would include calculus, physics, history of architecture, drawing and other studio art courses, plus electives in areas such as environmental science, a foreign language, etc.