The Master of Design in Sustainable Urban Environments program seeks to supply graduates for the rapidly growing field of sustainable urbanism. Through a dynamic curricular mix of design, dialogue, and technical courses enriched by diverse interdisciplinary electives, students will learn to be innovative and entrepreneurial creators and managers of next-generation public spaces. The two-year MDES-SUEN is appropriate for students wishing to develop graduate-level design and planning skills. Instructors lead students through fundamental visualization, representation, and implementation techniques, introductory to advanced history/theory themes and urban ecology and technologies. Studio courses introduce fundamental design and planning principles in the first year and advance to design research and application in the second year. Interdisciplinary dialogues between the students’ diverse disciplinary backgrounds enriches the studio content and enables development of customized study areas. |
Application Notes : | English Language Proficiency Proof: students for whom English is not their primary language must submit one of the following: an official associate or bachelor's degree transcript from an accredited college or university in the U.S, stating degree conferral and date, or TOEFL, IELTS, or NU Global Exam scores. |
Additional Admission Requirements: | - Letter(s) of Reference
- Resume/Curriculum Vitae
- Statement of Research Interests
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