Study abroad can be a valuable enrichment of the academic work available on campus. It offers opportunities for first-hand knowledge of architecture and the built environment as well as providing exposure to foreign languages and cultures. Study abroad should be planned in consultation with the concentration advisor in order to make certain that foreign course work will relate meaningfully to the concentrator's program of study. These credits will be counted as lecture courses, not seminars. The only exception to the two course limitation pertains to transfer students admitted to Brown before the junior year, who are permitted to transfer four credits toward the concentration.
Priority is given to architectural studies concentrators.
Students are advised to complete their seminar and architectural drawing requirement before taking the project seminar. One visual art course in design. One additional course. This can be a course in art or architectural history offered by the Department of History of Art and Architecture, or a course in an outside department, which is pertinent to architectural studies. While knowledge of foreign languages is not required for the concentration, concentrators who mean to continue their studies in architectural history beyond the bachelor's degree should be aware that language skills are a necessary part of all graduate work.