Every year, hundreds of students from around the world about UBC & # 39; s Environmental Design Program, but only 25 are selected each year. Approval is based on academics, diversity of courses taken strength and bread work portfolio, the quality of the written part of the application, outstanding reference letter and the level of specificity that the student can offer to the rest of the team agreed. I was fortunate enough to have been selected to be part of the class ends in 2013 and have just completed my first year in the program, I have experienced so much growth, both creatively and personally. I would like to offer this article as a guide to those interested in applying to the ends of the UBC program. As the program is relatively new, available literature about the application process and the program itself is limited. My goal is that I could help to offer an inside look into the system so that potential applicants can get a better sense of whether the program is right for them, and to offer useful information on the application process difficult and dreaded portfolio. For more information on the portfolio part of the application scroll down.
I want to start by giving the overall program rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Students receive top-notch design education from practicing architects who are thus able to offer a quality and fresh-from-the-field knowledge. All teachers are patient, very knowledgeable in many creative areas, more than willing to meet outside of class time for extra help, and ready to challenge each student at a level that is appropriate for their individual skills.
** A note: Ends do not accept previous owners degree. If you have a degree, unfortunately, you can not import. However, if you are interested in architecture degree, you may want to consider graduate in architecture. UBC has widely respected School of Architecture and if you have a creative mind and if you can show that you are adaptable and willing to work hard, they have been known to accept applicants who come from almost all known undergraduate.
One that ends the program features is the diversity of their students. This year in my class we had students from all over the world, each contributing unique set of skills and perspective to the whole class repertoire. Another way that ends ensures that student diversity is maintained by limiting the necessary prerequisites to 2 courses of university English 1 course in physics (or high school physics class 72% or higher) and 2 courses in geography. The program ends is the third year transfer program, and apart from the few pre-answer requests above, the remaining 15 courses that make up the years one and two of the university applicants are entirely up to them. Ends hopeful are not only free, but encouraged to take courses that are of interest to them.
** Here I enter Caution: from the first day of my university, I chose to put all my eggs in the basket ends. They want variety and so exactly what I did. I took the only course I was interested in; calculus, physics, French, painting, sculpture, sustainability … Fortunately for me, I was accepted into the program and it all worked out. However, I had no direction in the courses I was taking, only a little bit of everything and no back-up plan. And then I had not been adopted, I would have had to start almost to a degree. Ends wants variety and they want you to take the courses you want to take, but take it with a grain of salt and diversity at your own risk. Have a back-up possible degree can.
At first I was a little skeptical about the minimum pre-requisistes; concerns about how such a group of students who come from such diverse backgrounds could come together to learn the same material. But the variety and breadth of collective knowledge has only strengthened the depth of our work, pushed our critical thinking and forced us to challenge each other creatively. Our partnership category knowledge and skills have been a beautiful thing. Ends instructors have shown us how to learn from each other in order to increase our knowledge that we have access to the minds of 25-worth of data to draw on, instead of relying on our individual and thus limited knowledge base.
A few weeks into the school year showed that we were in for a rough ride for the next 7 months. We experienced many sleepless nights, developed a serious subject coffee and carbohydrates, and limits any previous experience of group work were severely hit. A tangible thing I can equate experience for those who have not been to design school is A & E & # 39; s television series Project Runway. There were tears, it was throwing up, desperate calls to loved ones, panic attacks and meltdowns. But in the end was a strong relationship that is born among the class and good design was produced. The work of each member of our team improve the quality of the working class as a whole. It sounds like a scary ride, but I know that each of us are beyond excited to start it all over again for year two. Bring it!
If you are adaptable, creative, critical thinker and a team player who is willing to have all pushed their limits, creative and personal, the ending is the place for you. If you are looking for an easy grade and thrive on competition put you ahead of your team instead of working with them, go along, ends will just eat you and spit you out.
The first year ends is heavy course load. Regular full course load is 5 hours, but the end requires the equivalent work of the sixth added. However, only four courses taken at the time because the main studio type that is required for each semester ends with a corresponding class time 3 combines courses. Of course there are challenges includes architectural, technical and technology, digital media and representation and thematic analysis. With this combination of materials studied, we have developed not only skills basically architecture, and design in general, graphic design, digital representation of ideas, interior design, and cross-media cooperation.
Students have access to computer labs, wood shop, three laser cutters, CNC machines and 3D printers. Macintosh computers are the preferred operating system about 85-90% of the class. The main applications we use are Vector Works, Adobe Creative Suite and the Rhine.
Vector Works is mainly 2D negotiate that's intuitive and easy to learn. They also offer a free student version for those who proves registration to a higher institution. For this, simply make & # 39; proof of age & # 39; a letter from your school, secure it as a PDF and attach it to the Vector Works application. Adobe Creative Suite package is expensive, but well worth the money. It is a quality program that covers almost every application you need for a design school. There is no need to spend big bucks on a master or Professional collections. The standard education version will be more than enough. Make sure to get a discounted educational price as well. Rhino is a 3D modeling program. It is a beta version for Mac is now available for free. Rhino is a useful tool to create compelling perspectival rendering and to create & # 39; exploded & # 39; drawings of the project. Before we arrived in time, it would be very useful to be familiar with these programs, and in particular, Vector Works, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.