Whether you are passionate about sustainable urban development, interested in innovations and generating lasting value in the built environment, or excited about advancing your creative practice or exploring cutting-edge design technology, classes at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning offer the opportunity to investigate a wide range of topics and expertise across fields and faculty. All Cornell students are welcome to enroll.
Generative Spaces: Where Design Meets AI, Robotics, and Digital Craft
Explore the intersections of design and emerging technology that most greatly impact research, industry, making, and practice through special topics classes offered this fall.
DESIGN 4197/6197 Special Topics in Design (Ithaca)
- AI, Design, and Creativity
- Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
- Digital Ceramics
- Robotic Fabrication & Parametric Design
Additional Design Tech Classes
In Ithaca
DESIGN 4297/6297 Coding for Design I
DESIGN 6397 Design for Physical Interaction I
In New York City
DESIGN 4197/6197 Special Topics in Design: Procedural World Building
DESIGN 5340 Virtual and Augmented Reality
DESIGN 5345 Developing and Designing Interactive Devices
See the full roster of courses in the multicollege Department of Design Tech.
Planning Futures: Urgent Questions Facing Cities and Communities
Interested in equitable and sustainable urban development across scales and geographies? Build research and urban analysis skills to deliver transformative planning projects while navigating the increasingly complex issues and debates that shape the world.
- CRP 3610/6610 The Shaping of Urban America
- CRP 5076/3076 Data and African Informal Settlements
- CRP 3074/5074 Affordable Housing Law, Policy and Practice
- CRP 3850/5850 SEM110 Vermont + Taiwan Climate Workshop
Additional CRP Classes
CRP 3072/5072 SEM 102 Community Based Urban Design
CRP 3860/6860 Planning for Sustainable Transportation
CRP 4120/6120 Urban Public Management
CRP 3850/5850 Basic Urban Services: Design & Delivery to Startups
CRP 7190 The Urban Everyday in the Global South
CRP 3850/5850 Funding & Facilitating Change: Strategic Communications & Philanthropy in Public Planning
CRP 3170/5170 Economic Development: Goals, Strategies, and Tools
CRP 5080 Introduction to GIS
CRP 3201/6201 Research Design and Qualitative Methods
CRP 3861/5861 Graphic Communications: Introduction to Planning Graphics
See the full roster of courses in the Department of City and Regional Planning.
Critical Practices: Engage the Complexity of Contemporary Culture
A creative lens can help you open new avenues of inquiry and deepen your understanding of personal expression, public life, and global challenges in fresh and compelling ways.
- ART 3011/5011 LAND: Art, Ecology, and Environmental Activism
- ART 3499/5499 Sculpture Special Topics: Elephant in a Porcelain Shop (Ceramics)
- ART 3707/5707 Advanced Media Arts, Performance, and Sound (MAPS): Interaction
- ART/PMA 3804/5804 Black Sound and Visual Culture
Additional Art Classes
ART/PMA 2701 Media Arts, Performance, and Sound (MAPS): Intersections
ART 3202/5202 Painting Intent & Context
ART 3399/5399 Advanced Print Media Special Topics: Achronicity and the Atlas
ART 3307/5307 Print Media: To Publish is to Make Publics
ART 3599/5599 Drawing Special Topics: Narrative Sketchbook
ART 3699/5699 Advanced Photography Special Topics
See the full roster of courses in the Department of Art.
Beyond Buildings: Design that Does More
Dig into design fundamentals. Build skills in thinking through making, or dive into the histories and cultures of building cities, structures, and spaces that inform design practices today.
- ARCH 1301 Ten Ways of Looking at Architecture
- ARCH 1501 Representation I: Architectural Drawing
- ARCH 3819/4408/5819/6408 Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism: Architecture, Land, and Labor: Histories of Utopias and Technologies of Building Work
- ARCH 5402 Architecture, Culture, and Society
- ARCH 6819 Seminar in Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism: Spatial Justice
See the full roster of courses in the Department of Architecture.
Policies and Strategies: Shaping the Built Environment
The future of real estate is driven by innovative leadership, and these courses offer industry insights and real‑world perspectives that inform strategies for understanding and creating lasting value in the built environment.
In Ithaca
- REAL 5560/5561 Creating the Built Environment/Innovation & Strategy in Commercial Real Estate Development
- REAL 6101 Economics of Urban Real Estate Markets and the Built Environment
- REAL 5370 Real Estate Distinguished Speaker Series
In New York City
- REAL 6595 Special Topics in Real Estate: Energy and Sustainability in Real Estate Development: Implications for Risk and Value
See the full roster of courses in the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate, jointly led by AAP and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
