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Programme of Architecture 2025 for Oversea Students

(Code: 080281   Schooling Length: Five years   Degree: Bachelor of Engineering)

1. Educational Objectives

The architecture major aims to train future architects with solid theoretical knowledge and practical practice skills. Graduates have core design capabilities, advanced technology and engineering knowledge, profound historical and theoretical literacy, a sense of social responsibility and sustainable thinking, and become high-quality talents engaged in architectural design, management and research to meet the needs of high-quality development of economic construction.

2. Expectations for Graduating

a) Critical Thinking and Representation: Graduates must have the ability to build abstract relationships and understand the impact of ideas based on research and analysis of multiple theoretical, social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental contexts. This ability includes facility with the wider range of media used to think about architecture including writing, investigative skills, speaking, drawing and model making.

b) Integrated Building Practices, Technical Skills, and Knowledge: Graduates are called upon to comprehend the technical aspects of design, systems, and materials and be able to apply that comprehension to their services.

c) Humanistic and artistic literacy, ideological quality and social responsibility: Graduates should be able to comprehensively consider social, cultural, health, safety, legal and environmental factors in architectural and engineering practice.

d) Collaboration, leadership and development potentials: Graduates should be able to manage, advocate and act in a legal, ethical and critical manner in the interests of clients, society and the public, with effective communication skills and a broad international perspective, and the ability to develop independently and for lifelong learning.

3. Credit Requirements

a) Students shall obtain the above required xxx credits together, and pass HSK-4 in order to graduate.

b) Those who meet the graduation requirements will be awarded a Bachelor of Engineering.

c) Final project/Thesis shall be written in English while an abstract in Chinese is also required.

Category

Course Credits

Credit Hours

Remarks

 

Compulsory modules

Lecture

134.5

2426

Including 30 CHs of experiment and 672 CHs of practice

Experiment

1

24


Practice

24

34 weeks


Optional modules

20

320


 

4. Curriculum

This undergraduate programme is normally five years in length, including 10 fall/spring semesters and 4 summer terms. It incorporates both a general and professional education. The professional education courses consist of basic courses, compulsory courses and optional courses.


Academic Year One

 

1st Semester (Fall)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

General education courses

2091199

Primary Oral Chinese (2-1)

4.0

64

64




2092199

Primary Chinese reading (2-1)

4.0

64

64




2092099

Moral Education and Law

1.0

16

16




PLC522911010

Freshman Seminar

1.0

16

16




Basic courses

SCC10111040

Advanced Mathematics

4.0

64

64




MEE323811030

Engineering Drawing

3.0

64

64




PLC522311011

Introduction to Architecture

2.0

36

24



12

PLC521812101

Basic Design (2-1)

4.5

96

24



72

SHL422312100

Sketch (2-1)

1.5

28

16



12

 

2nd Semester (Spring)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

General education courses

2091199

Primary Oral Chinese (2-2)

4.0

64

64




2092199

Primary Chinese reading (2-2)

4.0

64

64




Basic courses

PLC521812101

Basic Design (2-2)

4.5

96

24



72

SHL422312100

Sketch (2-2)

1.5

28

16



12

PLC529711015

Basic BIM

1.5

28

16



12

Compulsory courses

SHL423011010

Morphological Composition

1.0

16

16




Optional courses

SCC120122200

Advanced Mathematics II

5.0

80

80




 

 

Summer Term (S1)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

Basic courses

SHL421811020

Sketch Practice

2.0

2 weeks




2 weeks

PLC525911020

Cognition of Urban Architecture

2.0

2 weeks




2 weeks

 

Academic Year Two

 

3rd Semester (Fall)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

General education courses

2090599

Intermediate Chinese (2-1)

4.0

64

64




2090499

Survey of China (2-1)

3.0

48

48




CST110311025

Programming (Python)

2.5

40

40


(32)


Basic courses

SHL421212100

Color (2-1)

1.5

28

16



12

Compulsory courses

PLC521616100

Design (6-1)

4.5

96

24



72

PLC133611015

Building Materials

1.5

26

20

6



PLC521011020

Principles of Public Building Design

2.0

32

32




PLC321111040

Architectural Mechanics

4.0

64

64




 

4th Semester (Spring)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

General education courses

2090599

Intermediate Chinese (2-2)

4.0

64

64




2090499

Survey of China (2-2)

3.0

48

48




CST110611015

Computer Technology

1.5

24

24


(24)


Basic courses

SHL421212100

Color (2-2)

1.5

28

16



12

Compulsory courses

PLC521616100

Design (6-2)

4.5

96

24



72

PLC531311030

History of World Architecture

3.0

48

48




PLC522212101

Architectural Physics (2-1)

2.0

36

24



12

PLC531711005

Experiment of Architectural Thermal Engineering

0.5

12


12



Optional courses

PLC522022101

Building Digital Technology (2-1)

1.5

28

16

12



 

Summer Term (S2)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

Compulsory courses

PLC530311020

International Education Project

2.0

32

32




Optional courses

PLC521523100

Quick Design (3-1)

1.0

1 week




1 week

 

Academic Year Three

5th Semester (Fall)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

General education courses

2090699

Advanced Chinese (2-1)

4.0

64

64




Compulsory courses

PLC521616300

Design (6-3)

4.5

96

24



72

PLC523011030

History of Chinese Architecture

2.0

36

36




PLC522212101

Architectural Physics (2-2)

2.0

36

24



12

PLC530011005

Experiments of Architectural Acoustics and Lighting

0.5

12


12



PLC521212101

Building Construction (2-1)

2.0

36

24

6


6

PLC529311010

Contemporary Architectural Trends

1.0

16

16




Optional courses

PLC522022101

Building Digital Technology (2-2)

1.5

28

16

12



PLC520321011

Site Design

2.0

32

32




 

6th Semester (Spring)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

General education courses

2090699

Advanced Chinese (2-2)

4.0

64

64




Basic courses

PLC520911020

Introduction to Engineering

2.0

32

32




Compulsory courses

PLC521616400

Design (6-4)

4.5

96

24



72

PLC520611020

Principles of Urban and Rural Planning

2.0

32

32




PLC521212201

Building Construction (2-2)

2.0

36

24

6


6

PLC123311030

Building Structure

3.0

48

48




Optional courses

PLC520821010

Principles of Landscape Design

1.0

20

8



12

PLC521421010

Selection of Building Structure

1.0

2 weeks




2 weeks

CST110921020

Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

2.0

36

24


12


PLC510221020

Introduction to Green Building

2.0

32

32




 

Summer Term (S3)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

Compulsory courses

PLC533511020

Historical Building Survey and Digital Preservation Practice

2.0

2 weeks




2 weeks

Optional courses

PLC521523100

Quick Design (3-2)

1.0

1 week




1 week

 

 

Academic Year Four

 

7th Semester (Fall)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

Compulsory courses

PLC521616500

Design (6-5)

4.5

96

24



72

PLC523111020

Residential District Planning and the Principles of Residential Building Design

2.0

32

32




PLC562111010

Artificial Intelligence and Architectural Design

1.0

16

16




Optional courses

PLC522621010

Principles of Interior Design

1.0

16

16




SHL420321020

Architectural Expression

2.0

32

32




PLC521121010

Introduction to Environmental Psychology

1.0

16

16




PLC420721020

Built Environment

2.0

32

32




PLC123521020

Building Service Engineering

2.0

32

30




 

8th Semester (Spring)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

Compulsory courses

PLC520511015

Principles of Urban Design

1.5

24

24




PLC521616600

Design (6-6)

4.5

96

24



72

SEM130521020

Engineering Economics

2.0

32

32




Optional courses

PLC525821010

Pre-planning and Post-evaluation

1.0

16

16




PLC530621010

Introduction to Architectural Conservation

1.0

16

16




PLC41021020

Building Energy Saving Technology

2.0

32

32




 

Summer Term (S4)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

Optional courses

PLC521523100

Quick Design (3-3)

1.0

1 weeks





Academic Year Five

 

9th Semester (Fall)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

Compulsory courses

PLC522511080

Professional Practice

8.0

12 weeks




12 weeks

 

10th Semester (Spring)

Course Type

Course Code

Course Name

Credits

Credit Hours

Allocation of credit hours

Lecture

Experiment

Computer lab

Practice

Compulsory courses

PLC520111080

Final Design

10.0

16 weeks




16 weeks