Course Descriptions & Timetables

Course timetables list the current course offerings for a given term and their enrolment controls. For Daniels Faculty course descriptions, prerequisites, exclusions, and breadth requirements, please see the Daniels Faculty Academic Calendar.

Please note that not all courses listed in the academic calendar are offered every year. Several unique Daniels Faculty course descriptions can be found below, including Design/Build studios, Summer Abroad studios, and Advanced Topics courses. Please review the information posted here concerning how to read a timetable if you have questions around interpreting the data provided in the timetables below.

*Starting in Fall 2022, students may view timetabling information for Faculty of Arts and Science and Daniels courses using the new Timetable Builder.  See: ttb.utoronto.ca.  

Timetables

Current Timetables

Archived Timetables

Summer 2023 Course Descriptions

Please note that the Design Research Internship, Studies Abroad, Design Build & Independent Study courses are not available for ACORN enrolment, and can only be requested through the application process detailed below.

Information Sessions

Application for Design Research Internship, Studies Abroad & Design Build

Application form:
(Please note the form is limited to 1 submission).

Application deadline: Monday, March 20, 11:59 p.m.

Design Research Internship

  • ARC495Y1F LEC0101: Design Research Internship

This course bridges academic knowledge with professional practice and advances for upper level, undergraduate students models of design research. It offers students, in the form of a six-week internship, the opportunity to apply critical research and visual communication skills to focused work within the professional office of a local practitioner. Successful students will be hired to work on a research project defined by the host office that is intrinsically linked to their ongoing professional activity.

DRIP places 3rd and 4th-year BAAS students in leading Toronto design practices for a period of 6 weeks during the May-June Summer period, beginning May 8th, 2023. During this time, interns will work full-time, four days per week with their employer; while Wednesdays will be reserved for academic activity and attending a weekly seminar with Professor Petricone. DRIP will define for students models of practice, research, and interdisciplinary design, and will also help the participants build connections with members of Toronto's professional community.

Information sessions for this course will be held on Thursday, March 9, 2023 from 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Studies Abroad

The Daniels Faculty will be offering four global studios to our undergraduate students in the Summer 2023. The first one, "X-Athenas" will travel to Athens Greece and work on public spaces across the city in collaboration with students from the Department of Architecture, University of Patras. The second one, “Developing Micro-Public Spaces” will focus on the design of new typologies of public spaces in the Medina of Fez, Morocco in collaboration with the School of Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of EuroMed in Fez, Morocco and the Municipality of Fez. The third one, "What is the Good City?" will focus on several rural and urban community sites in Canada and Ghana, in a global virtual collaboration with students from the Department of Architecture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) based in Kumasi, Ghana. The forth one, “Berlin, a City in Film” will explore Berlin and its filmic representations through an intensive schedule of site visits, paired with a series of daily film screenings.

Information sessions for this course will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.

Design Build

Please note that ARC395H1 is not available for ACORN enrolment, and can only be requested through the application process detailed below. The following are descriptions for the four ARC395H1 design/build sections offered in the Summer 2023 session. These courses are available by application to current Year 3 and Year 4 undergraduate students in any of our Architectural Studies programs.

Information sessions for this course will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.

Independent Study Opportunity - Workshop

Please note that ARC399H1 is not available for ACORN enrolment, and can only be requested through the application process detailed below. 

Application deadline for ARC399H1 is Monday, April 10, 2023.

Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.

 

Fall/Winter 2022-23 Course Descriptions

ARC 400-Level Advanced Topics

The Advanced Topics courses listed below are distinct credit offerings, and eligible students can enrol in more than one of the following courses, despite repeating course codes. For example, students can enrol in ARC451H1F LEC0101 and ARC451H1S LEC0101, as their course content will differ depending on the instructor.

The Fall/Winter 2022-23 ARC 400-level Advanced Topics will be available for early enrolment to eligible students by ballot. The balloting webform can be found here, and the deadline to submit for the Fall/Winter 2022-23 session is Monday, June 27 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Additional descriptions will be posted as they become available.

Fall 2022

Winter 2023

(*1) Courses eligible to be used towards the Certificate in Global Studies of the Built Environment (U of T Global Scholar) (AHCERGLOB)

(*2) Courses eligible to be used towards the Certificate in Sustainability of the Built Environment (AHCERSUSP)

Senior Seminar and Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone

Architectural Studies students pursuing one of the AHSPE1001, AHSPE1002, or AHSPE1003 specialist programs of study may be eligible to apply for The Senior Seminar (Research) and Senior Seminar (Thesis) courses for the upcoming Fall/Winter 2022-2023 academic session. Eligibility requirements are listed in the Academic Calendar.

  • ARC461H1F: Senior Seminar in Design (Research)
  • ARC462Y1S: Senior Seminar in Design (Thesis)
     
  • ARC456H1F: Senior Seminar in History and Theory (Research)
  • ARC457Y1S: Senior Seminar in History and Theory (Thesis)
     
  • ARC486H1F: Senior Seminar in Technology (Research)
  • ARC487Y1S: Senior Seminar in Technology (Thesis)

Daniels students applying to Senior Seminar, may also indicate interest in the School of Cities or Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Design course, which is a creative, iterative and open-ended course in which students from different disciplines across the University of Toronto work in teams for the academic year (September – April). Both courses are 1.5 credits.

  • Students must apply using the Senior Seminar Research Thesis Application form.
  • Students only submit one application.
  • Students can apply for both Senior Seminar and Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Design course on the attached form, but can only be enrolled in one, not both.
  • Capstone nominees will be asked (later in June) to complete an additional application.

The deadline for submission is June 8, 2022. Email completed applications to programofstudy@daniels.utoronto.ca.

Past Course Descriptions

The following are the archived course descriptions from previous terms for unique course offerings outside of the regular sessional timetable.

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