History of Architecture and Urban Development Ph.D. (Ithaca)
Field of Study
Program Description
History of architecture and urban development (Ph.D.). Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in architecture, archaeology, history, history of art, or anthropology, or appropriate experience in the field. Applicants with previous graduate work can be considered for advanced standing.
Contact Information
Website: https://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/graduate/haud/requirementsEmail: arch-grad-info@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-4376
Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Concentrations by Subject
- history of architecture
- history of urban development
Tuition
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Application Requirements and Deadlines
Application Deadlines:
Fall, Jan. 3; no spring admission
Requirements Summary:
- All Graduate School requirements, including the English Language Proficiency Requirement for all applicants
- Two recommendations
- Resume/CV
- Transcripts: Submit completed and official transcripts from each college or university previously attended to the field to which you are applying. If it is against an institution's policy to send transcripts to the applicant, the transcripts can be mailed by the school directly to the field to which you are applying.
- Statement of purpose (A two-page statement outlining your research interests and intents for graduate study at Cornell. Please relate these intents to your previous design and academic experience, and to your future goals.)
- Writing Sample (15-20 pages in total)
Learning Outcomes
HAUD students engage in original research that advances and challenges the discipline. At Cornell they learn to identify and frame questions for the field. Students also develop research strategies for libraries, archives, and museums as well as fieldwork on site and through oral histories. Through advising, seminars, and independent studies, our students learn to: situate a research topic within the existing literature; demonstrate facility with primary and secondary literature; and identify potential contributions to our discipline and others. Through teaching assistantships in architectural history, they learn to impart this knowledge to students in a variety of undergraduate courses primarily in the department of architecture, but also, most recently, in the Knight Writing Center teaching First-Year writing seminars, as well as Teaching Assistantships in other fields at Cornell.