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Course description: This independent study course is for students interested in exploring the issues of professional practice as they exist in a culture different from that of the students' citizenship. It is designed primarily for architecture students with non-US citizenship interested in summer internships in the US, i.e., interested in curricular practical training.

For summer training, complete forms during prior Spring term; actual enrollment is for Fall term immediately after summer internship.

• ISSO Recommendation Form:

  1. Fill in internship information (training program).

  2A. Check this one. For course name and number: ARCH 5203 Curricular Practical Training. Semester: Fall xx.

  Signature: Find architecture faculty member willing to sign form as instructor of course (e-mail Prof. Ochshorn for information).

• Request 1 credit in ARCH 5203 Curricular Practical Training

  S/U Grade for the Fall semester 20xx. Note that this is the Fall term immediately after your summer internship, but also note that all paperwork must be completed during the Spring semester before the internship begins.

  Description of Study and Explanation of Goals:
  This independent study will allow me to explore the issues of professional practice as it exists in a culture different from that of my citizenship.

  Give a brief preliminary list of resources and references:
  I will be required to read a book dealing with the issue of professional practice. Possible texts include [list 1-3 examples here, final choice can be determined later]:

  • The ethical architect : the dilemma of contemporary practice / Tom Spector
  • Design professionals and the built environment : an introduction / edited by Paul Knox and Peter Ozolins
  • In the scheme of things : alternative thinking on the practice of architecture / Thomas R. Fisher
  • Ethics and the practice of architecture / Barry Wasserman, Patrick Sullivan, Gregory Palermo
  • From craft to profession the practice of architecture in nineteenth-century America / Mary N. Woods.
  • Professional practice 101 : a compendium of business and management strategies in architecture / Andy Pressman
  • Reconstructing architecture : critical discourses and social practices / Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann, editors
  • Building community : a new future for architecture education and practice : a special report / Ernest L. Boyer and Lee D. Mitgang
  • The ADA in practice / Deborah S. Kearney
  • Architects and their practices : a changing profession / Martin Symes, Joanna Eley, Andrew D. Seidel
  • Mastering Architecture: Becoming a Creative Innovator in Practice / Leon van Schaik
  • Competing Globally in Architecture Competitions / G. Stanley Collyer
  • Is it all About Image?: How PR works in Architecture / Laura Iloniemi

  Which distribution requirement is this course intended to satisfy?
  Departmental elective (in-or-out of college elective)

  What will be produced as a result of this study?
  5-10 page paper discussing the chosen text in relation to the experience of the summer intership.

  Describe the supervision expected:
  Initial meeting to discuss choice of text; final meeting to discuss ideas for paper is optional.

  Instructor can sign this form.

  Important note: Paper is due and must be turned in prior to the start of the Fall term; i.e., immediately after the internship is completed.

You may take the course more than once, but only the first credit hour earned will count towards graduation requirements.