{"id":4394,"date":"2025-01-03T06:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dau.edu.sa\/siteup\/?post_type=cadd&#038;p=4394"},"modified":"2025-04-26T06:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T06:05:26","slug":"marc-course-description","status":"publish","type":"cadd","link":"https:\/\/dau.edu.sa\/siteup\/cadd\/graduate-programs\/master-of-architecture\/marc-course-description\/","title":{"rendered":"MARC Course Description"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4394\" class=\"elementor elementor-4394\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba42110 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ba42110\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2215ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-Falar_DAU_ProgramSpecs\" data-id=\"f2215ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"Falar_DAU_ProgramSpecs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n        <!-- Program Main Warp Start -->\n        <div class=\"administration-warp ptb-50 \">\n          <div class=\"container \">\n            <div class=\"row border-bottom \">\n              <div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n                <div class=\"administration-content college-program\">\n                                                        <h2>Course Description<\/h2>\n                                                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n\n              <div class=\"col-lg-4\">\n                <div class=\"under-graduate-menu\"> <!-- administration-small-widget -->\n                   <button class=\"btn btn-green dropdown-toggle\"\n                        type=\"button\"\n                        id=\"dropdownMicroProcessorTrigger\"\n                        data-bs-toggle=\"dropdown\"\n                        aria-expanded=\"false\">                    <\/button>\n\n                      <ul class=\"dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-lg-end\" aria-labelledby=\"dropdownMicroProcessorTrigger\">\n                                              <\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n                <\/div>\n             <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"row college-program-table\">\n              <div class=\"col-lg-8 py-4\">\n                \n                 \n\n\n\n\n<!-- Tab Content -->\n<section>\n    \n<div class=\"\">\n\n  <div class=\"tab-content w-100\" id=\"pills-tabContent\">\n    <div class=\"tab-pane fade show active\" id=\"pills-home\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"pills-home-tab\">\n<!--  Study Plan  -->\n\n\n    <h3>Course Description<\/h3>\n                 \n\n    <p><div class=\"border-start mb-5\">\n<h4>Academic Program Core Requirements<\/h4>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC611 ( ADVANCED DESIGN I ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">In this course, students have to design a large scale mixed-use building. The building has to be continuous and must be developed both horizontally and vertically. Have to solve the uses and circulation inside each use with their connection. Also the relationship between the building and its environment has to be logical and solved. The students have to work from the urban scale to the detailed scale.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC612 ( DESIGN THEORIES AND METHODS ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3 <\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">Reviewing and comparing the design principles of architectural movements, since early the industrial revolution, which enables students to think critically and approach the problem solving in creative design based on deep theoretical knowledge and study cases.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC613 ( RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">In this course, the students in being acquainted with scientific methods of formulating researches, reports, critics, and thesis. Techniques of writing and formulating a clear research contents, presentation, research design and methods of data collection and analysis, all are embedded in the course contents.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC614 ( VALUE ENGINEERING IN ARCHITECTURE ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">A very specific course that encounters the student to a very fine engineering process of material selectivity, editing, and compromising in order to adapt the project to a certain financial ceiling without losing its required quality determinants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC621 ( ADVANCED DESIGN II ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 4<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">In this course, students have to study many theoretical approaches for urban design of large scale mixed-use complexes. Buildings have to be continuous and must be developed both horizontally and vertically. Have to solve the uses and circulation inside each use with their connection. Also the relationship between the building and its environment has to be logical and solved. The students have to work from the urban scale to the detailed scale, with special emphasis on holistic design procedures, and future extension demands.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC622 ( PROJECT \/ DESIGN MANAGEMENT ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 4<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">This course aims to explain the role of the project manager as the architect responsible to conduct a design task, and a construction site within a time frame, a specified budget and a required quality level. The course teaches how to plan, organize and control the design\/implementation work, using different and standard techniques used in the management process of the project different phases.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC623 ( SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 4<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">This course adjusts the environmental conditions within the comfort zone of human performance in building\/public space design. The essence of this course is to design sunshade devices and passive systems of cool ventilation, and illustrates different design responds to various environmental conditions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC631 ( PROJECT RESEARCH ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 4<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">This individual researching and programming parts of the final Master project that selects the type of project with data collection and analysis. The research methodology follows theoretical framework and working techniques of architectural space\/functional programming.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC643 ( CAPSTONE PROJECT ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 5<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">Integrating knowledge and skills acquired during two years of advanced architectural studies. Each student developing his\/her own project, based on the research undertaken in ARCM631 Project Research.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\">Prerequisite : ARC631 \u201cPROJECT RESEARCH\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"border-start mb-5\">\n<h4>Academic Program Elective Requirements<\/h4>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC632 ( Energy and Exhaust in Building Operation ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">(Elective Course I\/1) A course that tackles Environmental issues mainly concerning Zero Carbon Buildings, and how throughout the design process, the building exhaust would be minimized to its leas permissible levels.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC633 ( Architectural Energetic Self Reliance ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3 <\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">(Elective Course I\/2) A course that tackles Environmental issues mainly concerning Energy Self-Generating Buildings, aiming self sufficiency in producing and utilizing needed energy of electric power, Heating, Cooling, water resources, and other consumables that a building would created for itself.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC634 ( Special Structural Facilities ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">(Elective Course II\/1) The course provides theories \/ concepts of leadership and modern management Structural design of buildings of special form and static status, are introduced here, with concept and process, analysis of statically determinate structures, and introducing methods of solving special structural issues in buildings and facilities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC635 ( Urban Setting of Public Places ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">(Elective Course III\/1) Theory and practice of planning the urban environment resembled in urban places, here integrate the cultural context to the physical essence of land-use and accessibility networks at different levels of resolution, aiming to the comfort and human ethics and values to be embraced in public conglomerates.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start px-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablerounededCorner mb-3\">\n\nARC642 ( Urban Design Thinking ) <span class=\"float-end\">Credit Hours: 3<\/span>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped roundedTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-start text-wrap p-3\">(Elective Course III\/2) This course handles urban issues in advanced manner. 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