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Each semester of the program is designed as a “package” of courses that integrates NAAB requirements into a wholistic vision of the profession, which includes a synthesis of technological and social concerns, as well as the production of compelling analytical visualizations of architecture and its context at multiple scales.  The studio sequence is designed to initiate students on a career path of design-as-research.  In ARCH 4103 , students complete a special requirement of the accredited professional degree in architecture, which is the demonstration of the ability to execute an Integrated Design Project.  Instructors provide section-specific sites, program guidelines, and architectural themes, and students work in pairs to complete a fully resolved building design that addresses contemporary matters of architecture and the city, utilizing the most current computational methods.  In ARCH 4104 , students delve deeply into individually-defined investigations relating to specific themes of contemporary architecture.  Students take advantage of the proximity of the program to the professional community of Charlotte in order to develop relationships that have both short-term (i.e., project-related) and long-term (i.e., career-related) benefits.

The School also offers a fifth-year Bachelor of Architecture program for students who have a four-year architectural or environmental design degree from another NAAB accredited institution.  Following an assessment of curriculum for equivalence with the B.A. in Architecture Advanced Program, students are required to complete a minimum of 30 credit hours, including 12 credit hours of architectural studio and 18 hours of other architectural courses.  Students entering the fifth-year Bachelor of Architecture program from other architecture programs who have curriculum deficiencies will be required to complete additional coursework and credit hours.  No transfer credit is accepted for this program.