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 2022 Timetable (last updated: May 16, 2022)
- 2021-22 Fall/Winter Timetable
- 2021 Summer Timetable
- 2020-21 Fall/Winter Timetable
- 2020 Summer Timetable
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.
- (ARC495Y1F L0101) Design Research Internship. Coordinator: Pina Petricone
Studio 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.
- (ARC300H0F L0101) X-Athenas - Public Space Stories in Contemporary Athens. Instructor: Petros Babasikas
- (ARC300H0F L0102) Developing Micro-Public Spaces in the Walled Medieval City of Fez. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni
- (ARC300H0S L0101) What is the good city? Kyebi, Assin-Kushea, Innisfil, York South-Weston. Instructor: Jeannie Kim & Farida Abu-Bakare
- (ARC300H0S L0102) Berlin, a City in Film. Instructor: Peter Sealy
- (VIS300H0F L0101) Fogo Island. Instructor: Gareth Long
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.
- (ARC395H1F P0101) Design Build: Fogo Island. Instructor: Todd Saunders & Rahul Sehijpaul
- (ARC395H1F P0102) Design Build: Haliburton Forest. Instructor: Jay Pooley
- (ARC395H1S P0101) Design Build: Toronto (Observing and Using a Tree in the City). Instructors: Zachary Mollica
- (ARC395H1S P0102) Design Build: The Bentway. Instructor: TBD
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 17, 2023.
Travel dates in course descriptions will be fully confirmed upon fixing all individual course lists, by mid-April.
- (ARC399H1F L0101) Independent Study Opportunity - Workshop: NEW CIRCADIA at the InSomnolence Exhibition. Instructor: Richard Sommer (June 13 - 23)
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
- (ARC451H1 F LEC0101) Advanced Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture: The Cartographic Impulse - Global Objects in the Early Modern World. Instructor: Jason Nguyen (*1) (*2)
- (ARC453H1 F LEC0101) Advanced Topics in the History and Theory of Urbanism: THE DEEP TIME OF MEDIA: The Geological Materiality of Planetary Computing. Instructor: Kearon Roy Taylor (*1)
- (ARC465H1 F LEC0101) Re-Imagining Palestinian Modern Architectural Heritage. Instructor: Aziza Chaouni (*1) (*2)
- (ARC465H1 F1 LEC0102) Advanced Topics in Architecture: Urban Leftovers 2.0. Instructor: Reza Nik
- (ARC465H1 F2 LEC0103) Advanced Topics in Architecture: Between the Lines: Borders, Territory and Space. Instructor: Anne-Marie Armstrong (*2)
- (ARC466H1 F LEC0101) Advanced Topics in Landscape Architecture: On Walking and Fieldwork. Instructor: Jane Wolff (*2)
- (ARC480H1 F LEC0101) Advanced Topics in the Technology of Architecture: Building Envelopes - Systems, Responses, and Affect. Instructor: Daniel Chung (*2)
- (ARC480H1 F1 LEC0102) Advanced Topics in the Technology of Architecture: Critical Machines. Instructor: Maria Yablonina
Winter 2023
- (ARC426H1 S LEC0101) Working with Wood. Instructor: Ted Kesik & Sally Krigstin (*2)
- (ARC451H1 S LEC0101) Advanced Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture: Feminism and Architectural History. Instructor: Ipek Mehmetoglu (*1)
- (ARC465H1 S LEC0101) Advanced Topics in Architecture: How to Design an Elephant. Instructor: Adrian Phiffer
- (ARC465H1 S1 LEC0102) Advanced Topics in Architecture: Articulating Voids. Instructor: Angela Cho
- (ARC465H1 S2 LEC0103) Advanced Topics in Architecture: Science Fiction Architecture & The Retinal Circus. Instructor: Brian Boigon
- (ARC467H1 S LEC0101) Advanced Topics in Urban Design: When the Rubber Hits the Road. Instructor: Miles Gertler (*1)
- (ARC467H1 S1 LEC0102) Advanced Topics in Urban Design: Visibility Through Design. Instructor: TBC
- (ARC480H1 S LEC0101) Advanced Topics in the Technology of Architecture: Lazy Computing. Instructor: TBC
(*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.