Faculty members are on leave, visitors are teaching special courses, adjunct professors are brought in for special purposes, and so on. Faculty members teach all courses. Graduate students serve as teaching assistants in courses taught during the first two years, serving as assistants to a professor and never as the sole instructors in a course. Normally, then, there are about 20 faculty for the full complement of 250 undergraduate students and sixteen graduate students. Many architecture programs are much larger, and a few are smaller.
Studios are at the heart of the program.
They are time consuming. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, all afternoon is given over to studio. Several times during the semester, there are general interim reviews of projects and reviews of final designs in which one or more outside critics discuss a student s work in the presence of the entire class. Students spend additional time on evenings and weekends preparing their studio assignments. In addition, students take courses elsewhere in the University, and they take a series of graphics courses, history courses, and courses in materials, structural engineering, and professional practice.