2009-10 University Catalog
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College of Architecture and Planning
The College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado (at both the Boulder and Denver campuses) prepares students for careers in architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape design, urban design, and other design- and planning-related fields. The college offers undergraduate and graduate education in these fields, and its professional graduate programs are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board, the Landscape Architecture Accrediting Board, and the Planning Accrediting Board.
The College of Architecture and Planning is unique in that it offers its 1,400 students exceptional educational experiences in two distinctive and different locations. The college's undergraduate program is offered on the Boulder campus in an environment ideally suited to the needs of undergraduate students, and the graduate programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and urban and regional planning are taught on the university's Downtown Campus, in the heart of a vital urban environment that serves as a laboratory for graduate education. With a diverse faculty committed to excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, and creative and professional work, the college provides students with a varied range of learning opportunities.
Many students intending to enter the design and planning professions complete the college's undergraduate degree at CU-Boulder as preparation for entry into the college's graduate-level professional programs at the University of Colorado Denver Downtown Campus, where they generally received advanced standing in those graduate programs as an outcome of the work they have done in the ENVD program. Graduate-level professional programs are offered by a wide range of schools and programs nationally, and students graduating from the college's undergraduate program often receive advanced standing in those graduate programs as a result of the courses they will have completed as undergraduates in Boulder.
Careers in the Design Professions
