The undergraduate Architecture curriculum is composed of 178 credit hours, requiring a minimum of five years for completion. Nine  weeks of  summer practical training is also  required. The Foundation Program stimulates a dialogue based on the student designer's attitudes, knowledge, and concerns in working with multiple scales of environmental design activity. Studies in Architecture Department begin with design theory and process, covering building design as an interactive investigation of human factors, environmental forces, and technology and focuses, during the fourth and fifth years, on building design and urban planning , the fifth-year thesis project