ARCH&UD 10B
Histories of Architecture and Urbanism II
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 11 hours. Survey of architectural and urban history from 1600 to present in global context. Exploration of buildings, cities, spaces, artifacts, landscapes, and ideas through their relation to geopolitical conditions and through their relation to theories of design. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2022 - I really enjoyed this class and Professor Amoresano is an amazing professor. The lectures were extremely interesting and it was obvious she was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about architecture. That being said, this class does have quite a bit of writing for a GE, though I don't think the workload is unmanageable by any means. The homework primarily consisted of 9 weekly worksheets, which were a set of 2-3 short answer questions of about 200-300 words each. They normally asked you to refer to material from the lectures and readings. I thought these were very straightforward and never took me more than an hour to complete. They were also only graded on completion, so they didn't need to be perfect. A large portion of this class is the final essay project, which is broken up into stages throughout the semester (one due every other week). These also involved fair amounts of writing, but were very open ended as we got to pick our own topic to study. I HIGHLY recommend spending a lot of time researching/thinking of your topic and argument at the beginning of the quarter - this will make your life a lot easier later on when the assignments become more focused. I didn't think these were very difficult, though they were somewhat time consuming. The final paper itself is 8-10 pages 12pt which is quite a lot, though I ended up just reusing material I already wrote for the previous weeks. There is also one group presentation sometime during the quarter, which is very easy and straightforward. Bare in mind some grading details will depend on your TA, as the TA does the grading for all the assignments. Overall, I liked this class. If you're interested in architecture and don't mind a bit of writing, I'd recommend it! I found the material very interesting and Professor Amoresano is extremely sweet and cares a lot about her students. If all you're looking for is an easy GE, then maybe consider another class though. It wasn't exceptionally difficult, but it is a fair amount of work
Spring 2022 - I really enjoyed this class and Professor Amoresano is an amazing professor. The lectures were extremely interesting and it was obvious she was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about architecture. That being said, this class does have quite a bit of writing for a GE, though I don't think the workload is unmanageable by any means. The homework primarily consisted of 9 weekly worksheets, which were a set of 2-3 short answer questions of about 200-300 words each. They normally asked you to refer to material from the lectures and readings. I thought these were very straightforward and never took me more than an hour to complete. They were also only graded on completion, so they didn't need to be perfect. A large portion of this class is the final essay project, which is broken up into stages throughout the semester (one due every other week). These also involved fair amounts of writing, but were very open ended as we got to pick our own topic to study. I HIGHLY recommend spending a lot of time researching/thinking of your topic and argument at the beginning of the quarter - this will make your life a lot easier later on when the assignments become more focused. I didn't think these were very difficult, though they were somewhat time consuming. The final paper itself is 8-10 pages 12pt which is quite a lot, though I ended up just reusing material I already wrote for the previous weeks. There is also one group presentation sometime during the quarter, which is very easy and straightforward. Bare in mind some grading details will depend on your TA, as the TA does the grading for all the assignments. Overall, I liked this class. If you're interested in architecture and don't mind a bit of writing, I'd recommend it! I found the material very interesting and Professor Amoresano is extremely sweet and cares a lot about her students. If all you're looking for is an easy GE, then maybe consider another class though. It wasn't exceptionally difficult, but it is a fair amount of work
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Spring 2020 - I didn't learn jack shit about architecture, but I know a hell of a lot more about colonialism now! If you like social justice and vaguely interconnected, borderline nonsensical lectures, this is the class for you! I took this class during 'rona quarter, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but good fucking lord this is the weirdest class I've ever taken. You only have five assignments plus a midterm and a final, so everything is pretty easy, but you will NOT understand the writing prompts at all. The upside is that the TAs/Prof are very lenient graders and will happily give you credit for 300 words of well-sourced nonsense. I know many of my classmates did have issues with not getting ANY grades back until week 8, which was really shitty, but other than that the professor was very nice. He's genuinely excited about everything he's teaching even if the words coming out of his mouth make very little sense. Also, if you take a shot every time he says "strange" you'll black 5 mins into lecture. TL;DR: had no idea what was going on and got good grades on every assignment anyways.
Spring 2020 - I didn't learn jack shit about architecture, but I know a hell of a lot more about colonialism now! If you like social justice and vaguely interconnected, borderline nonsensical lectures, this is the class for you! I took this class during 'rona quarter, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but good fucking lord this is the weirdest class I've ever taken. You only have five assignments plus a midterm and a final, so everything is pretty easy, but you will NOT understand the writing prompts at all. The upside is that the TAs/Prof are very lenient graders and will happily give you credit for 300 words of well-sourced nonsense. I know many of my classmates did have issues with not getting ANY grades back until week 8, which was really shitty, but other than that the professor was very nice. He's genuinely excited about everything he's teaching even if the words coming out of his mouth make very little sense. Also, if you take a shot every time he says "strange" you'll black 5 mins into lecture. TL;DR: had no idea what was going on and got good grades on every assignment anyways.
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Spring 2017 - This class was a very interesting and easy GE! I highly recommend this class to anyone interested in architecture or history or just looking for an easy GE. I am personally very interested in architecture so I might be a bit biased though. Fabbrinni talks very quickly in lecture and it can be a bit overwhelming and hard to take notes, but luckily he gives a study guide with topics we need to know for the midterm/final on it so as long as you take the time to study for it (3-5 hours each test) you should get an A. Every week there is a 5-10 page reading about architecture and a page reading response due. This probably took me an hour or less every week. For discussion I had Kyle as my TA and he helped us a lot to understand the concepts.
Spring 2017 - This class was a very interesting and easy GE! I highly recommend this class to anyone interested in architecture or history or just looking for an easy GE. I am personally very interested in architecture so I might be a bit biased though. Fabbrinni talks very quickly in lecture and it can be a bit overwhelming and hard to take notes, but luckily he gives a study guide with topics we need to know for the midterm/final on it so as long as you take the time to study for it (3-5 hours each test) you should get an A. Every week there is a 5-10 page reading about architecture and a page reading response due. This probably took me an hour or less every week. For discussion I had Kyle as my TA and he helped us a lot to understand the concepts.
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