2025 Fall
ENVDES 1 001 - LEC 001
Introduction to Environmental Design
Class #:20739
Units: 3
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Institute of Urban & Regional Development Programs
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
148
Enrolled: 51
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 199
Waitlist Max: 50
Open Reserved Seats:
112 reserved for College of Environmental Design Students with 1-4 Terms in Attendance
2 reserved for Urban Studies Majors: New Transfer Students
10 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission
1 reserved for Undergraduate Students in the College of Environmental Design
20 reserved for All Undergraduate Students including Visitors
9 reserved for Students with 1-4 Terms in Attendance
Hours & Workload
2 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week, 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 4 hours of outside work hours per week.
Course Catalog Description
This course will teach anyone how to start to be a designer, not just of drawings and objects, but also buildings, landscapes, and urban spaces. And not just in isolation, but in the complex web of ecological and man-made systems which makes up our shifting environment. You will take from the course first-hand experience of drawing, measuring, and design — which form the basis of the professions of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning— and which culminate in a final design project in the course. The course is open to all undergraduate students.
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions
Students will receive no credit for ENV DES 1 after completing ENV DES 4.
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Meets the Humanities & Environment Course Thread
Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Reserved Seating For This Term
Current Enrollment
Open Reserved Seats:
112 reserved for College of Environmental Design Students with 1-4 Terms in Attendance
2 reserved for Urban Studies Majors: New Transfer Students
10 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission
1 reserved for Undergraduate Students in the College of Environmental Design
20 reserved for All Undergraduate Students including Visitors
9 reserved for Students with 1-4 Terms in Attendance
Terms in Attendance:
Undergraduate Classifications Information
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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