Selection of Distributional Electives
In the first year, students are required to take a minimum of 12 units of distributional electives from an approved list of courses.
Distributional electives may be completed in the second year with approval from the Domain Head.

Note that courses may not be offered every academic year.

Architecture
VIS 2232 Digital Media: The Projective Precast
VIS 2233 Digital Media: Environmental Geometries
VIS 2234 Digital Media: Algorithmic Problems: Grasshopper as Medium
VIS 2314 Responsive Environments
VIS 2486 Depths of the Cloud: Architecture and Data Ecologies in the AI Era
DES 3479 Philosophy of Technology: From Marx and Heidegger to AI, Genome Editing, and Geoengineering
SCI 6126 Materials (please note this is a 2-unit course)
SCI 6372 Circuits, Circles, and Loops: Towards A Regenerative Architecture
SCI 6387 Digital Production: Design, Materials, Fabrication
SCI 6486 BioFabrication
SCI 6487 Machine Aesthetics: Transcoding Space Time
SCI 6492 Quantitative Aesthetics: Introduction to Machine Learning for Design
SCI 6506 Design Analytics: Predicting Human Spatial Experience

Landscape Architecture
VIS 2475 Fortress of Solitude

Urban Planning and Design
HIS 4374 Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart and Sustainable Technologies
SES 5215 Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative (please note this is a 2-unit course)

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
COMPSCI 50 Introduction to Computer Science
PHYSCI 70 Introduction to Digital Fabrication

Students contemplating cross-registering for courses at another Harvard school must abide by the dates and policies of the school in which the course is offered. Priority for enrollment may be given to the other school’s students first before cross-registrations are accepted — enrollment is not guaranteed. See https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/resources/cross-registration-policies-procedures/