Programs
The school is divided into five departments including the Department of Architecture, Department of Art, Department of Art History, Department of Landscape Architecture, and the Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management. The school also offers four programs including Arts & Administration, Historic Preservation, Interior Architecture, and Product Design.
The architecture program was in place since the inception of the school, though it didn’t become a department of the school until 1964. Just five years after its founding, in 1919, the school gained an early form of accreditation through the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Only twelve schools out of forty schools that applied obtained accreditation that year. Both the undergraduate and graduate degrees are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.
The landscape architecture program was first founded in Oregon Agricultural College, now known as Oregon State University in 1928. The program was moved to the University of Oregon in 1932, where it was expanded into a five-year program. The masters program was established a year later.
The department of art offers an array of fine arts including various digital media, ceramics, fibers, metals and jewelry, photography, painting, and sculpture. Students’ work are periodically displayed in the LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall.
The school’s product design program begins in the fall of 2008, from a partnership between the school’s department of art and department of interior architecture. The program, sparked by a $1.5 million donation from Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle, will work closely with nearby firms such as Ziba Design, Nike, Intel, and Sandstrom Design. The program will offer a four-year BA/BS degree in Material and Product studies in Eugene while offering a fifth year in Portland for a BFA in product design.
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