Required Courses

For students entering Fall 2024

First Semester

4 units ADV-9673 Proseminar in NARRATIVES: Word and Image
12 units Electives or Distributional Electives**

Second Semester

16 units Electives or Distributional Electives**
Choose elective courses to develop the Trajectory

Third Semester

16 units Electives
Choose elective courses to develop the Trajectory

Fourth Semester

8 units Electives
8 units ADV-97XX Open Project

**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.

Selection of Distributional Electives
Students are required to select 12 units of courses from across disciplines.

Note that courses may not be offered every academic year.

Architecture
VIS 2229 Digital Media: Not Magic (please note this is a 2-unit course)
VIS 2345 Offsite/Onsite: Curating Contemporary Art
VIS 2369 Exhibiting Architecture
VIS 2446 Drawing for Designers
VIS 2463 Faux: Design, Performance, and Perception of Fake Materials
VIS 2465 Architecture on Screen
VIS 2471 Architecture of Time
VIS 2472 Curatorial Practices in the Public Realm: Working Outside the Box
VIS 2484 Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
DES 3389 The Fifth Plan
DES 3459 Proximities/or Readings and Methods within Reflexive Formalism
DES-3479 Philosophy of Technology: From Marx and Heidegger to AI, Genome Editing, and Geoengineering (HKS)
HIS 4100 Buildings Texts, and Contexts: Origins and Ends
HIS 4223 Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Architecture’s Multiple Modernisms
HIS 4350 Michelangelo Architect: Precedents, Innovation, Influence
HIS 4358 Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture
HIS 4362 Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
HIS 4374 Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
HIS 4395 Environmentalisms: How to Have a Politics?
HIS 4399 Architecture and Construction: From the Vitruvian Tradition to the Digital
HIS 4451 Atmospheric Projections: Media as Environments (at AFVS)
HIS 4454 The Project and the Territory: Japan Story
HIS 4468 On Architecture and Property
HIS 4497 The Architect as Producer
HIS 4509 History of Architecture Against
HIS 4511 Case Studies in Urban Conservation: Principles & Narratives of an Emerging Discipline
HIS 4513 Architecture and Poststructuralism
HIS 4519 Contested Spaces: Architecture and Power
HIS 4522 Essaying Architecture
HIS 4523 Symptomatic Reading of Architecture

Landscape
VIS 2470 Atmospheric Encounters: Visualizing the Invisible
DES 3241 Theories of Landscape as Urbanism
HIS 4105 Studies of the Built North American Environment: since 1580
HIS 4141 Histories of Landscape I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
HIS 4142 Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation and Use
HIS 4305 Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar
HIS 4387 Topology and Imagination: Between Chinese Landscapes and Architecture
HIS 4461 Natural Histories for Troubled Times, or, Revisiting the ‘Entangled Bank’
HIS 4485 Race and Gender: Landscape Architecture as Practice, Profession, and Discipline
HIS 4487 Plants of Ritual: Creating a Spiritual Connection to the Designed Landscape
HIS 4508 CONTESTED Landscapes + COUNTER Narratives
HIS 4512 Fight or Flight: Space Colonization and the Future of Landscape Architecture

Urban Planning & Design
VIS 2469 Public Space, Memory, and Social Dialogue
DES 3348 The Idea of Environment
HIS 4151 Histories and Theories of Urban Form: Transition as Condition
HIS 4152 Urban Planning Theory and Praxis: Comparative Historical Origins and Applications
SES 5386 Urban Ethnographies

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
AFVS 189G The Frankfurt School on Film and Mass Culture
AFVS 175 Introduction to Media Theories
AFVS 118C Curating Contemporary Art
AFVS 272 Proseminar in Film and Visual Studies
HAA 278K On Line: Drawing Then and Now
HIS 1912 History Design Studio
SPANSH 166 Latin American Orientalism: From Columbus to Octavio Paz
TDM 187B Collective Protocols as Public Space

MIT
MIT 21H.990 Narrating the Anthropocene: Understanding a Multi-Species Universe
MIT 4.333 Introduction to Interactive, Participatory, and Generative Art Making

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/

(Required courses for students who entered in 2021.)