Huckabee College of Architecture
For students pursuing an M.S. Arch, a M. Arch, or students who have completed these programs, the HCOA offers five certificate programs to extend your learning in specialized areas.
Each certificate program is directed by a faculty member who customizes the coursework to match the student’s educational and professional interests within that area of study.
This 12–15-hour certificate seeks and offers advanced design knowledge and innovative approaches in architectural design. Positioned at the intersection among architecture, engineering, and construction, students gain practical skill sets and theoretical foundations in computational design, material study, fabrication techniques, and processes.
Coursework centers on technical skills and the theoretical & conceptual foundations to rethink and challenge the limits of current design practice.
The Ecological and Sustainable Design (ESD) Graduate Certificate is tailored towards forward-thinking students eager to address the complex and wicked problems of climate change, social justice, and adaptation for innovative design in architecture.
Through a carefully curated selection of elective and studio courses, explore current issues such as regenerative and carbon-neutral materials, ecologically-minded technologies and integration, and energy-efficient design. With 15 credit hours of targeted ESD-approved coursework, you will gain invaluable knowledge and practical skills to advance ecological and environmental systems through architecture.
Join us and shape the future while making meaningful contributions to sustainable design and advancing your career at the intersection of ecology, equity, and innovation.
This 12-hour interdisciplinary certificate offers specialty coursework in Healthcare Facilities Design, exploring how research can be used to design a space that positively affects patient outcomes and the efficiency and safety of healthcare environments.
With this certificate, in addition to taking architecture courses in advanced design and evidence-based architecture, students enroll in nursing and business courses through the School of Nursing at TTUHSC and the Rawls College of Business, which provide a deeper understanding of the role technology plays in patient care and existing operational systems in modern healthcare.
For this 15-hour certificate, the HCOA partnered with the Department of Public Health at TTUHSC to create a program that examines salutogenic design principles, teaching students how environmental design enhances the physical, intellectual, emotional, mental and spiritual health of groups and individuals.
Coursework will explore the ways in which design impacts health, public health principles, evidence-based design principles, research methods, and the role of research in design.
This 12-hour certificate expands the definition of land art through direct experience with the full range of human intervention in the landscape, from the inscriptions of pictographs and petroglyphs to the construction of roads, dwellings, and monuments (and the remnants of those developments).
A semester-long, transdisciplinary field program, Land Arts investigates the intersection of geomorphology and human construction, beginning first with the land and extending through the complex social and ecological processes that create contemporary landscapes.
This 15-hour certificate provides students with in-depth knowledge of the integrated relationship between architecture and the urban environment. Coursework centers on the design of physical spaces and the legal framework between interrelated neighborhoods.
Interdisciplinary studies also provide students with opportunities to examine real estate, finance, mapping, and spatial analysis, and/or the dynamics of U.S. energy, climate, and sustainability law policy as they concern urban environments.
