No.

Requirement

Credit Hours

Percentage

1

Departmental General Requirements

27

16%

2

Compulsory Specialized Requirements

171

84%

Total

198

100%

No.

Course Number

Name Number

Credit Hours

Pre-Requisite

1

10110

Arabic 1

3

none

2

10120

Islamic Studies

3

none

3

10130

English Language 1

3

none

4

10131

English Language 2

3

10130

5

10140

Mathematics 1

3

none

6

10141

Mathematics 2

3

10140

7

13130

General Physics 1

3

none

8

13230

General Physics 2

3

13130

9

30110

Computer Principles

3

none

Total Credit Hours

27

No.

Course Number

Name Number

Credit Hours

Pre-Requisite

1

30212

Computer Aided Design 1

2

33110

2

30513

Computer Aided Design 2

2

33212

3

33110

Free Hand 1

3

ـــ

4

33111

Engineering Drawing

3

ـــ

5

33120

Architectural Design 1

6

ـــ

6

33121

Architectural Design 2

6

33120

8

33130

Descriptive Geometry 1

3

ـــ

9

33131

Descriptive Geometry 2

3

33130

10

33133

Executive Graphics

3

33324

11

33212

Free Hand 2

3

33110

12

33214

Workshop

2

ـــ

13

33220

Architectural Design 3

6

33121

14

33221

History of Architecture 1

2

ـــ

15

33222

Architectural Construction 1

3

33121

16

33223

Architectural Drawing and Representation 1

2

33131

7

33224

Properties and Resistance of Materials 1

2

ـــ

17

33225

Architectural Design 4

6

33220

18

33226

History of Architecture 2

2

33221

19

33227

Architectural Construction 2

3

33222

20

33230

Statics

2

10140

21

33310

Architectural Drawing and Representation 2

2

31223

22

33311

Environmental Control 1

2

ـــ

23

33312

Surveying

3

10141

24

33313

Environmental Control 2

2

33311

25

33314

Landscape ِ Architecture

3

33322

26

33315

Local Architecture

2

33326

27

33321

History of City Planning

2

33226

28

33322

Interior Design

3

33131

29

33323

Architectural Design 5

6

33225

30

33324

Architectural Construction 3

3

33227

31

33325

Construction Theory 1

2

33230

32

33326

Islamic Architecture

2

33221

33

33327

Theories of City Planning

2

33321

34

33328

Construction Theory 2

2

33325

35

33329

Architectural Design 6

6

33323

36

33330

Properties and Resistance of Materials 2

2

33224

37

33333

Steel Structures

3

33328

38

33341

Quantities and Specifications

2

33313

39

33410

Housing 1

2

33121

40

33411

Air Conditioning

2

33313

41

33412

Lighting

2

33313

42

33413

Reinforced Concrete 1

2

33328

43

33414

Housing 2

2

33410

44

33415

Acoustics

2

ـــ

45

33416

Reinforced Concrete 2

2

33413

46

33420

Architectural Design 7

6

33329

47

33421

Urban Design 1

3

33327

48

33422

Contemporary Architecture

2

33226

49

33423

Architectural Design 8

6

33420

50

33424

Urban Design 2

3

33421

51

33425

Theories of Architecture

2

33422

52

33426

Research Methodology

3

30110

53

33430

Sanitary

2

ـــ

54

33510

Project Programming

2

33313

55

33511

Project Preliminary Study

3

33423

56

33514

Graduation Project

10

33511

33426

57

33530

Professional Practice

2

33423

Total

171 hours

Course name: Arabic Language

Course Number: 10110

Prerequisite: none

Teaching language: Arabic language

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3 hours

This course deals with the Arabic language in general and focuses on its grammar, rhetoric and morphology. This includes analyzing parts of speech, the root of the word and its affixes, the active and passive voice, and types of verbs. The course also introduces literary devices, analogy, writing styles, and techniques of literary analysis.

Course name: Islamic Studies

Course number: 10120

Prerequisite: none

Language of Instruction: Arabic language

Course level: The first level

Credit hours: 3

A number of topics aim at introducing the tolerant Islamic Sharia according to the moderate approach that is free from extremism and exaggeration and which focuses on true faith and the noble ethics of Islam.

Course Title: English 1

Course Number:  10130

Language of instruction: English

Prerequisite:  None

Credit Hours:   3

Course Level:  First year

English 1 course introduces the students to the language encountered while studying in the academic fields. The course includes readings and vocabulary exercises designed to develop students’ skills in the English language in general and the language of the professions related to the study in academia, in particular.  

Course Title: General English 2

Course Number:10131

Language of instruction: English

Prerequisite:  10130

Credit Hours: 3

Course Level: First Year

General English 2 is a course that enables students to build a foundation of English Language by applying the step- by- step approach to gain skills and confidence. The course includes readings and vocabulary exercises designed to develop the students’ skills in the English language. Students develop their writing skills utilizing the sentence and paragraph structure for a coherent writing.  

Course name: Mathematics 1

Course number: 10140

Prerequisite: none

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3

This course is concerned with studying (groups – periods – variations – functions – ends – communication – differentiation – differential applications).

Course name: Mathematics 2

Course number: 10141

Prerequisite: 10140

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3 hours

This course aims to introduce students to some of the mathematical concepts and topics represented in trigonometric and hyperbolic functions, logarithmic functions, methods of integration and related theories, complex numbers, and practical applications of all the mentioned topics.

Course name: Physics 1

Course Number: 13130

Prerequisite: none

Teaching language: Arabic and English language

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3

The course includes dimensions, units, vectors and fundamentals of physics such as velocity, acceleration, free fall, vehicle analysis, Newton’s laws, work, energy, torque, amount of motion, rotational acceleration, pressure, propulsion, and Archimedes rule. Speed of sound in solid objects, in fluids, and doppler effect are also discussed.

Course name: Physics 2

Course Number: 13230

Prerequisite: 13130

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3

The course deals with

·         electricity and magnetism: Charge, Coulomb’s Law, Electric field.

·         gauss’s Law, and its application, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, current and resistance EMF and circuits, and circuits, magnetic field, magnetic induction hall effect, Ampere’s Law, inductors and solenoids, self-induction, R-L and R-C circuits, magnetic properties of matter, Electromagnetic oscillators, E.M.W and Maxwell’s equations, transmission lines, traveling waves.

·         alternating currents and voltages.

·         waves and optics: Light waves, refraction and reflection of light, mirrors and lenses and their applications in optical instruments.

Course name: Introduction to Computer

Course number: 30110

Prerequisite: none

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3 hours

The course introduces computer applications and programs, and how to use the operating system (Dos) (Windows), Microsoft word processor, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentation, the Internet and e-mail.

Course Name: Using Computer in Architecture 1

Course Number: 30212

Prerequisite: 33110

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 2

Introducing the capabilities of computers in the fields of architecture and urbanism and providing tools, technologies and applications that can be used efficiently during the stages of preparing programs, analyzing them, showing and evaluating designs, preparing two-dimensional graphics, and extracting their programming accounts and languages, identifying problems and the needs of the designer, using the computer in programming and architectural design processes.

Course name: Using Computer in Architecture 2

Course Number: 30513

Prerequisite: 33212

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fifth

Credit hours: 2

Introducing the capabilities of computers in the fields of architecture and urbanism, providing tools, technologies, and applications to be able to use them efficiently during the stages of preparing programs, analyzing them, showing and evaluating designs, preparing three-dimensional graphics, and extracting their programming accounts and languages. Defining problems and the needs of the designer.

ourse name: Free Drawing 1

Course Number: 33110

Prerequisite: none

Teaching language: Arabic and English

Course level: The first level

Credit hours: 3

This course deals with the awareness of the visual and artistic architectural elements in their sizes, texture, colors and materials involved in their formation and methods of expressing them by hand drawing. Taking into account the proportions and formative relationships (equilibrium, harmony, contrast, composition, etc.). It also includes the expression of formations, formations and scenes and their projection to various forms. And that through a variety of practical exercises for students as individuals or small groups, using pencil and charcoal pens and different colors.

Course name: Engineering Drawing 1

Course Number: 33111

Prerequisite: none

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3

This course deals with engineering drawing tools – basic operations used in engineering drawing – free manual diagram – orthogonal projection (vertical) – auxiliary projections – dimensions – isometric and isometric drawing (scales) – sections.

Course name: Foundations of Architectural Design 1

Course Number: 33120

Prerequisite: none

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 6

·         Study the visual configurations (point, line, surfaces, volumes).

·         Study the different geometrical circles and shapes.

·         Work to employ the concepts that the student learns from the principles of art and architecture by assigning him to prepare types of configurations.

·         Study in teaching dealing in green spaces with a drawing and an engineering line.

·         Preparing simple projects (children’s play spaces).

·         To embody abstract ideas through stereotypes.

Course name: Architectural Design 2

Course Number: 33121

Prerequisite: 33120

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 6

• Making deeper designs and focusing on the job and its relationship with humans, the human scale, space and space interference

• Working to develop the student’s ability to clarify his design ideas by drawing projections and interfaces.

• Developing the student’s sense of depth and height of the spaces by drawing longitudinal and transverse sectors.

• Make models for small projects (selling booths, small exhibitions, chalets, and furnishing residential spaces).

Course name: Properties and Resistance of Materials 1

Course Number: 33224

Prerequisite:

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 2

·         General characteristics of materials (materials, loads, chemical and physical properties).

·         Metal materials (advantages and disadvantages of using metal, ferrous materials, steel, alloys, rebar, tests).

·         Wood (structure, wood used in construction, wood defects and diseases, treatment, tests).

·         Ceramic materials (raw materials, manufacture of ceramic products, types of ceramic products used in construction).

·         Glass (composition, properties, glass products used in construction).

·         Gypsum (types, industry, time of doubt).

·         Lime (types, lime industry, advantages and disadvantages, properties, uses).

·         Paints and coatings (water-based paints and their types, quartz, graphite, granite, trade paints, epoxy paints).

·         Insulation materials (thermal, acoustic, moisture insulation materials, conditions of use).

·         Bricks (types, manufacturing, properties and features, uses in architecture).

·         Color (properties, composition, preparation, types).

·         Cement concrete (properties and specifications of concrete components, additions to concrete, fresh concrete properties, concrete treatments, concrete corrosion and protection, rough concrete circulating, tests).

Course name: Descriptive Engineering 1

Course Number: 33130

Prerequisite: none

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3

·         Point representation.

·         Straight representation: special cases of the rectum, straight angle of inclination, finding the true length of a straight segment, two straight positions in a vacuum.

·         Level representation: special states of a plane, special straight lines in a plane, angle of inclination of a plane, straight positions and a plane in a vacuum, a straightforward penetration point of a plane, two levels of positions in a vacuum, joint separation of two levels and column formation at a level.

·         Ways to help: a quick, simple idea.

·         Represent of engineering objects in a vacuum

·         Represent of polyhedral, their uniqueness, regular geometric objects, finding the resulting segment from a flat intersection with an engineering object.

·         Rotary surfaces, rotating surfaces are individual and non-discrete, flat intersection with a rotating body.

·         Aoxometric projection: the principle of Aoxometric projection and its applications in drawing architectural figures.

Course name: Descriptive Engineering 2

Course Number: 33131

Prerequisite: 33130

Teaching language: Arabic+ English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3

First: the course introduces the engineering shadow and  this cincludes:

Types of lighting and shadows as an introduction, and we will study the geometric shadow drawing for diagonal lighting and in it:

Point Shadow.

·         Keep a straight segment on the horizontal and front level.

·         Geometric shapes remained in different positions at the horizontal and forward levels.

·         Circle remained.

·         Shadow geometric objects with flat and rotating surfaces.

·         Shadows on inclined surfaces.

·         Shadow applications for architectural drawings.

·         Shade in the Axonometric.

Second: the course focuses on drawing perspective and contains:

·         Principles of drawing an engineering perspective.

·         Flat Shapes Perspective: With two “escape” vanishing points, with two vanishing points.

·         Size perspective: Determine the height in perspective.

·         Use the distance point.

·         The perspective of the circle at different levels and then the perspective of rotating bodies.

·         Some special cases in drawing the engineering perspective.

·         Shadow signature principles in perspective.

Course name: Executive Drawings

Course Number: 33133

Prerequisite: 33324

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: First

Credit hours: 3

The course includes application of executive drawing that includes

·         General definitions of stairs

·         Interior and exterior stairs details work

·         Stairs industry materials

·         Types of stairs

·         Design staircases (with parallel legs – with helicopter legs)

·         Vertical sections of stairs

·         Details and sectors in the external walls

·         Ways to implement the external walls

·         Treating building breaks in the building (walls – facades – floors – ceilings – beams)

·         Types of structural joints in the building

·         Characteristics of joint filling materials

·         The material used to fill the separators

Course name: Free Drawing 2

Course Number: 33212

Prerequisite: 33110

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 3

The course includes

·         Free drawing using different methods and tools such as lead, coal, and ink to express various topics such as art, architecture, and nature.

·         Optical analysis and composition by vertical projection.

·         Architectural drawing as a medium for design.

·         Three-dimensional representation using the Asometric and Oblique projection.

Course name: Workshop Lab

Course Number: 33214

Prerequisite: –

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 2

Introduction, workshop risks and safety factors, mineral engineering materials and their properties, hands-on training for manual work, leveling, shaping, electrical, sanitary, and heating installations, welding, lathe and sorting, carpentry and the use of appropriate tools for leveling and publishing, various applications of student work.

Course name: Architectural Design 3

Course Number: 33220

Prerequisite: 33121

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 6

The first architectural project:

·         Designing a single housing unit.

·         Research and study stage, site analysis and similar examples.

·         The initial design idea stage.

·         Advanced design idea stage.

·         Final submission.

·         Final submission.

The second architectural project:

·         Buildings with small service functions (road service station, passenger transport station, small shopping mall, …). The work stages are carried out within the same stages of the work of the first architectural project.

Course name: History of Architecture 1

Course Number: 33221

Prerequisite: –

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 2

History of architecture includes historical studies of the art of architecture in the following periods and civilization:

·         Egyptian.

·         Asian.

·         Greek.

·         Romanian.

·         Christianity.

Course name: Architectural Construction 1

Course Number: 33222

Prerequisite: 33121

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 3

Load bearing system:

·         Study the basics of origin (pregnancy, compression, tension, curvature, shear).

·         Construction materials (bricks, stone, concrete blocks, wood).

·         Foundations and their types.

·         Ground beams.

·         Slots.

·         Flooring.

·         The Bishop.

Course name: Architectural Drawing and Display 1

Course Number: 33223

Prerequisite: 33131

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 2

·         Plans sections elevations (line quality and drawing style, projection).

·         Complex cuts and complex views.

·         Animated drawings.

·         Cylinders in elevation.

·         Existing and proposed.

·         Shadow conventions.

·         Floors cape.

·         Trees types and drawing in plans and elevations, axonometric.

·         Figures in plans, functions of figures in design drawing.

·         Figures in sections, axonometric, perspectives.

·         Furniture in plans, elevations, axonometric, perspectives.

·         Staircases in axonometric, perspectives.

·         Codes for materials (US, UK).

Course name: Architectural Design 4

Course Number: 33225

Prerequisite: 33220

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 6

The first architectural project:

·         Design a six-class primary school or kindergarten.

The second architectural project:

·         Design a small health clinic or small student activity center.

The stages of work in the two projects are:

·         Research and study stage, site analysis and similar examples.

·         The initial design idea stage.

·         Advanced design idea stage.

·         Final submission.

·         Final submission.

It must be emphasized that the student is acquainted with the importance of field visits to the sites designated for the project in order to study and apply the basic plans of the site with the current situation and study the elements of the site and the impact of these elements on the design process of the architectural project.

Course name: History of Architecture 2

Course Number: 33226

Prerequisite: 33221

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 2

Architecture history curriculum

·         Islamic.

·         Romanesque.

·         Gothic.

·         Renaissance.

The architecture developed over the previous civilizations in terms of:

·         Architectural and artistic treatments.

·         How to adapt to natural and civilizational environments.

·         Architectural and structural elements.

·         Building materials.

·         Psychological impact.

Course name: Architectural Construction 2

Course Number: 33227

Prerequisite: 33222

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 3

·         Structural construction system, columns and beams and their types.

·         Types of special beams.

·         Study of finishing and cladding materials.

·         Covering floors, walls (interior, exterior) and ceilings.

·         Cladding of natural materials (bricks, stone, marble).

·         Drawers and their types.

·         Doors, windows, glass.

·         Concrete.

·         Moisture inhibitors.

Course name: Science of Stillness

Course Number: 33230

Prerequisite: 10140

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Second

Credit hours: 2

The course includes powers at the level – the system of neutral forces – moments – duplication – finding the sum of the forces of all kinds and analyzing them – loads of all kinds – knowing the types of substrates – calculating the reactions of simple beams – the reactions of continuous articulated beams – the reactions of simple tires – the reactions of the types of articulated tires – trusses

Course name: Architectural Drawing and Display 2

Course number: 33310

Prerequisite: 31223

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

This course includes

·         Stone facings and coursework, brickwork, masonry, marble.

·         Techniques for glass, mirror glass.

·         Building materials in elevation.

·         Rendering techniques for materials in elevation.

·         Shadow, rendering techniques.

·         Reflected light techniques.

·         Skies in line, tone, airbrush and spray wash skies, graphite dust sky technique.

·         Techniques for water, reflections in water.

·         An introduction to lettering, lettering in design drawings, the legend.

·         An introduction to layout plan, contours in site plans.

·         Methods of presentation.

·         Arrangement of project as storyboard, preparation of final project, including examples of student work. Illustration of use of line, color, value, reduction, presentation of portfolio and report covers.

Course name: Environmental Control 1

Course Number: 33311

Prerequisite:

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

This course includes

·         Environmental Study: The Social and Industrial Nature.

·         Study the climate in general.

·         Climate zones in Libya.

·         Earth’s thermal equilibrium.

·         Study of climate elements (temperature, precipitation, humidity, vapor pressure, wind).

·         Airlock, desert humidifier.

·         Factors affecting feeling comfortable (comfort map).

·         Noise (its source, architectural treatments to reduce it).

·         Sun fall angles, sunbreaks, study of sun fall angles and sun breakers.

·         Natural ventilation.

Course name: Survey

Course number: 33312

Prerequisite: 10141

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 3

The course includes general definition – Principles – Basic measurements – Control networks – Locating position –Plotting detail – Summary

Course name: Environmental Control 2

Course Number: 33313

Prerequisite: 33311

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Natural lighting.

·         Study the movement of the sun and the four seasons.

·         Using solar energy in architecture.

·         Study of thermal loss.

·         Thermal insulation.

·         Study the thermal gain.

·         Air pollution.

·         Sick buildings.

·         Special treatments for desert architecture (block and layout).

·         Biology and Architecture (plants) from a climatic perspective.

Course name: Site Coordination

Course Number: 33314

Prerequisite: 33322

Teaching language: English +Arabic

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

Course name: Local Architecture

Course Number: 33315

Prerequisite: 33326

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Definition of Libyan architecture, its components, concepts, and factors that influenced its stages, an analysis of Libyan architecture before the introduction of Islam.

·         The architecture of Lebda, Oia, Sabratha, Shahat.

·         Concepts of Libyan architecture after the introduction of Islam.

·         Desert architecture (Ghadames city, Ojel Oasis).

·         Coastal Architecture (Old Tripoli, Old Benghazi).

·         Mountain architecture (the western mountain region).

·         Examples of some historical evidence in the land of the Jamahiriya.

·         Elements that affected Libyan architecture and the impact of Libyan architecture on buildings in other countries.

Course name: History of City Planning

Course Number: 33321

Prerequisite: 33226

Teaching language: English + Arabic

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course incldes

·         City Forms and the forces that shape them.

·         Pre-Urban and Ancient Cities: the old and new worlds.

·         Classic Cities: Greece and Rome.

·         Medieval Cities: Bern, Switzerland.

·         Monumental city traditions:

·         The historic Arab Islamic cities.

·         Renaissance cities: Florence and Venice, Italy.

·         18th C. Baroque cities and their origins: Rome, etc.

·         19th C. Monumental cities: Bath, London, Paris, and Mexico City.

·         The industrial city of the 19th century (Reactions: the city beautiful movement, the urban parts movement, etc.)

·         Urban realities before second world war.

·         The urban forms in contemporary cities.

Course name: Interior Design

Course Number: 33322

Prerequisite: 33131

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 3

The course includes

·         History and background of interior design, ancient, classic neoclassic and contemporary styles.

·         Space arrangements, circulatory patterns, walls, partitions, ceilings and openings, finishing materials, light, color texture, furniture design and arrangement, indoor planting.

Course name: Architectural Design 5

Course Number: 33323

Prerequisite: 33225

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 6

The course includes the design of administrative and cultural buildings (cinema, theater, opera) and industrial buildings, and the stages of work on the project are similar to that of the second architectural year.

Course name: Architectural Construction 3

Course Number: 33324

Prerequisite: 33227

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 3

The course includes

·         Multi-story structural buildings.

·         High metal buildings.

·         Methods for condensing structural buildings.

·         Wood structures.

·         Prefab Buildings.

·         Borrowed ceilings.

·         Curtain walls.

·         Vertical service channels.

·         Spacers (expansion, descent).

·         Module.

Course name: Construction Theory 1

Course number: 33325

Prerequisite: 33230

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Statically defined (balanced, mobile) systems.

·         Finding system reactions (continuous joint beams, structures and frames).

·         The relationship between the schemes, the great ends and their locations.

·         Three-joints tire (reactions, inner forces).

·         Circular tires.

·         Analyzing trusses and finding the internal reactions and forces of the organs through drawing.

Course name: Islamic architecture

Course Number: 33326

Prerequisite: 33221

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Definition of Islamic architecture, its foundations, concepts, architectural proportions.

·         Types of architectural buildings within the concept of Islamic architecture.

·         Elements of Islamic architecture and aesthetic and engineering proportions followed.

·         The stages of development of Islamic architecture: Islamic architecture during the era of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and adult caliphs.

·         Islamic architecture in the Umayyad state.

·         Islamic architecture in the Abbasid state.

·         Islamic Architecture and its development stages in Egypt.

·         Islamic Architecture in North Africa and Andalusia.

·         Islamic Architecture in Anatolia.

·         Islamic Architecture in Iran.

·         Islamic Architecture in India.

·         Factors affecting the structural architecture of the Arab-Islamic architecture.

·         Factors affecting the creation of the architectural space in Arab and Islamic architecture.

Course name: City planning theories

Course Number: 33327

Prerequisite: 33321

Teaching language: ENGLISH + ARABIC

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Theories and strategy as the basic for planning.

·         Functional analysis of the city compounds and planning definition.

·         The new pioneers of theories of city planning.

·         City planning theories:

·         Garden city and suburb traditions.

·         Organic urban planning.

·         Satellite town, grid extension, central places theory.

·         City of tomorrow theory: radiant city theory, ideal city theory.

·         Village planning theories.

·         Concentric zone theory: sectors theory, multiple nuclei theory.

·         Theories of urban form: architectural rolls unified city form.

·         Neighborhood unit theory: super block theory.

·         The practice of planning and its prospects.

·         Functionalist and transportation developments in city planning.

·         The influence of the regional planning movement.

·         The impact of application theories between tradition and modernity in old Arab cities (spatial form, spatial patterns).

Course name: Construction Theory 2

Course Number: 33328

Prerequisite: 33325

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Unconfirmed systems.

·         Emotion using simple methods.

·         Analyzing non-statistically identifiable facilities.

·         Use the equation of the three moments and distribute the moments without deviation.

·         Draw plans for the internal forces.

·         An approximate analysis of the facilities.

Course name: Architectural Design 6

Course Number: 33329

Prerequisite: 33323

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 6

The course includes designing tourist facilities and buildings (hotels, motels), sports and commercial buildings, and work on the project takes place with the same basic steps and stages in application.

Course name: Properties and resistance of materials 2

Course number: 33330

Prerequisite: 33224

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Introduction (goal, assumptions, definitions).

·         Mechanical behavior of structural materials (the relationship of stress to deformation, the effect of force on material resistance and stresses, stresses, the effect of temperature on mechanical behavior).

·         Surveying plumages of the first order.

·         Surveying plots of the second degree.

·         pure bending, axial force bending.

·         Shear stresses and shear forces.

·         Emotions as a result of different forces.

·         Balance.

Course name: Metal Structures

Course Number: 33333

Prerequisite: 33328

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 3

The course includes

·         Uses (features, defects, structural sectors used in construction, necessary proofs, loads).

·         Fastening tools (rivets, nuts, welders).

·         Tension members (central, decentralized, structural members prone to inertia).

·         Pressure organs (central, decentralized, single pressure organs, compound pressure organs, buckling).

·         Beams (simple bending stresses, double bending stresses, twisting).

·         The cushions on the walls.

Course name: Quantities and specifications

Course Number: 33341

Prerequisite: 33313

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Preparing various contracting contracts.

·         Establishing the general conditions for contracting.

·         Preparing for the contracting (contracting forms, types of contracting accounting).

·         Tender (goal, announcement of tender, tender documents, conditions for documents, bidding, bidding, rights).

·         Quantities table (all types of account papers).

·         Specifications (methods for drafting specifications, rules for writing specifications, dividing specifications).

·         Various business items and formulating their specifications (concrete works, site preparation, excavation and backfilling, construction work, insulators, laying works, ground tiles, faience works, carpentry work, metal works, etc.).

·         Calculating costs for different items.

·         Quantities of materials needed for different works (different examples for finding quantities of different items).

·         • An integrated project in which the study of general and special specifications, bill of quantities, account papers and costing are prepared.

Course name: Housing 1

Course Number: 33410

Prerequisite: 33121

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Historical introduction to housing development worldwide.

·         The stages of development of housing in different regions of Libya (urban, rural, mountain, desert).

·         The aspects that affected the formation of the Libyan Arab residence.

·         The effect of building materials on the shape, size and area of the Libyan Arab residence.

·         Features of Arab homes.

·         The development of the western housing and its effect on the development of the Arab housing after the industrial revolution.

·         The effect of the appearance of concrete on the shape and size of the Libyan residence.

·         New housing patterns that have increased the diversity of housing in Libya.

How has the multiplicity of housing patterns influenced residential communities in the form of the urban fabric (a comparison between the past and the present)

Course name: Air Conditioning Engineering

Course Number: 33411

Prerequisite: 33313

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 2

The course focuses on the study of energy and thermal field – environmental effects – transportation, storage and thermal insulation – ventilation and air conditioning – industrial ventilation – heating systems and systems – study of mechanical air movement systems – basic theories of air cooling – study of air conditioning devices – study of some systems for internal air heating – an applied study.

Course name: Lighting

Course Number: 33412

Prerequisite: 33313

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 2

The course focuses on the study of

·         Lighting, light and vision, units of illumination, causes of eye strain, foundations of lighting in buildings, natural lighting, its sources, composition, characteristics, methods of calculation.

·         Industrial lighting, its sources, composition, characteristics and methods of calculation.

·         Electrical installations in buildings.

Course name: Reinforced concrete 1

Course Number: 33413

Prerequisite: 33328

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 2

The course focuses on the study of

·         Reinforced concrete (introduction, concrete materials and properties, design methods and safety factors).

·         Concrete technology (additives, mixing, proportions, water-to-cement ratio, laying, stacking and treatment, compressive resistance, tensile strength, splitting, shear resistance, simple curvature, concrete types, localized cast-origin behavior, shrinkage and creeping of concrete, cover Reinforced concrete and crack control).

·         Design methods and loads (maximum resistance method, flexible analysis method, operating stress design method).

·         Design of concrete beams (rectangular section, reinforced sections in two directions) (L, T-shaped section).

·         Designing concrete slabs (one-way, two-way).

·         Laying and plugging rebar.

Course name: Housing 2

Course Number: 33414

Prerequisite: 33410

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 2

The course focuses on the study of

·         Housing policy in Libya.

·         The main points that define housing needs.

·         The foundations to consider in designing housing.

·         Factors affecting housing selection.

·         Classification of residential areas according to the approved general scheme for the city of Benghazi, housing regulations in Libya.

·         Basics of designing residential areas, the needs of residential groups.

·         The foundations of residential neighborhood planning

·         Criteria for assessing the existing housing situation.

·         Definition of random housing and the factors that determine what it is.

·         Reasons for the emergence of random housing and the solutions to be taken into account in order to avoid the emergence of this type of housing.

·         Models of modern housing (low-rise, medium-high, high-rise, residential towers).

·         Quality of housing

·         Residential satisfaction

·         Economic housing

Course name: Acoustics

Course Number: 33415

Prerequisite:

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 2

The course focuses on the sound, basics of audios, audios in buildings, noise reduction in buildings, isolation of vibrations in buildings, use of electrostatic devices in halls.

Course name: Reinforced concrete 2

Course Number: 33416

Prerequisite: 33413

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 2

The course focuses on the study of

·         Design beams subject to torque and shear forces.

·         Concrete pillars design.

·         Design the foundations of all kinds (single, connected, mural).

·         Stairs design.

Course name: Architectural Design 7

Course Number: 33420

Prerequisite: 33329

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 6

The course focuses on college design, central library, transportation buildings (airports, ports, train stations)

Course name: Urban Design 1

Course Number: 33421

Prerequisite: 33327

Teaching language: English + Arabic

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 3

The course focuses on the study of

·         Site analyses.

·         Site assessment and an understanding of ecological issue.

·         Criteria of evaluation urban design.

·         Examples of different types of urban planning design according to function from different countries.

Projects will be based around the following area:

·         Resorts

·         Beeches                      

·         Neighborhood design

·         District center design

·         Other projects decided by studio master according to city needs

Prerequisite: 33226

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Third

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Currents and theories in contemporary arts and architecture from the industrial revolution to the twentieth century…modernism and postmodernism, analyzes of regional architecture trends and local architectural identity and the impact of environmental, social, economic and technical factors on crystallizing architectural identity

·         Outstanding artwork and architecture for the pioneers of architecture and plastic arts from the contemporary era, trends in nature, green and sustainable architecture

Course name: Architectural Design 8

Course Number: 33423

Prerequisite: 33420

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 6

Designing a general or specialized hospital.

Course name: Urban Design 2

Course Number: 33424

Prerequisite: 33321

Teaching language: English + Arabic

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 3

The course includes

·         Site analyses.

·         Site assessment and an understanding of ecological issue.

·         Criteria of evaluation urban design.

·         Examples of different types of urban planning design according to function from different countries.

Projects will be based around the following area:

·         Resorts

·         Beeches                      

·         Neighborhood design

·         District center design

·         Other projects decided by studio master according to city needs

Course name: Architecture Theories

Course Number: 33425

Prerequisite: 33422

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 2

The course focuses on

First Contemporary Architecture:

·         Architecture in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

·         The first architects at the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

·         The development of architectural vision in the first half of the twentieth century.

·         Pioneers of architecture and the founding generation of modern architectural thought.

Second Theories of Architecture:

·         The growth of modern architectural thought between 1956 – 1970.

·         The second generation of modern architecture.

·         Architecture in the seventh and eighth decades of the twentieth century.

·         Architecture of modernity through the third generation.

Course name: Research Methodology

Course Number: 33426

Prerequisite: 30110

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course Level: Fourth

Credit hours: 3

The course includes

Researcher’s personality:

And in it the characteristics that must be available in the researcher are presented.

Research Methodology:

It provides a set of general rules that regulate information and ideas for the purpose of finding the truth.

Research setting:

It is the stage during which the research is presented in the final form that it must be, and it is summarized in the following:

·         Choose a research topic.

·         Develop a research plan.

·         Collection of scientific material.

·         Dealing with texts.

·         Writing the research and its elements.

Course name: Sanitary Engineering

Course Number: 33430

Prerequisite:

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fourth

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Direct feeding systems.

·         Feeding through tanks.

·         Connections.

·         Hot water supply.

·         Types of heaters.

·         Distribution and maintenance pipes.

·         Calculating design consumption rates and diameters of feeding tubes.

·         Protecting the building from fire.

·         Designing and operating swimming pools.

·         Sewer lines inside the buildings.

·         Fittings for feeding and drainage pipes.

·         Health devices and their installation.

·         Designing internal drainage networks and pipelines and their needs.

·         Definition of rain water.

·         Sewage disposal.

·         Garbage collection system.

Course name: Programming projects

Course Number: 33510

Prerequisite: 33313

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fifth

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Project management (preamble, definition, engineering project, control system in closed engineering project, requirements, standard rates).

·         Schedule (requirements).

·         Project planning methods (rectangle diagram, critical path, equilibrium line).

·         Bar chart (setup, use, features, defects).

·         Network diagrams (A.D.M equity chart, P.D.M precedence diagram, network elements, general rules for network setup).

·         Analysis of times (calculation of start and end times, calculation of surplus times, critical path).

·         Stock chart analysis (examples).

·         Precedence diagram analysis (examples).

·         Comparison of A.D.M and P.D.M.

·         Program review and calendar method for scheduling (PERT).

·         Possibility of completing a project at a specific time (examples).

·         Curriculum of the budget line method (effectiveness is one, for several events, achievement rates, steps for preparation).

·         Cash flow projections (positive cash flow, negative cash flow, net cash flow, enterprise financial planning, cash flow plans).

·         Costs (direct costs, indirect costs, current assets fixed, valuation and price recovery).

·         Important foundations in understanding the engineering economy (definition, goal, feasibility of investment, goal of feasibility study, economic scarcity, impact of time on investment feasibility, economic and financial feasibility, the most important indicators used in calculating feasibility).

·         Engineering technical evaluation of alternatives (types of evaluation, evaluation stages, goal setting and factors and their selection, determining the importance of each factor, factor analysis, setting and conducting the evaluation system, indicators for comparing design solutions).

Course name: Preliminary study of the project

Course Number: 33511

Prerequisite: 33423

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fifth year

Credit hours: 3

This course is an introductory study of the graduation project in which the student submits a theoretical research on the subject of the graduation project that the student will implement in the following semester and after the approval of the supervising professor. This research will be in a topic related to what the student has studied in a specialization in one of the fields of design in architecture through selecting distinct design projects that address unconventional or typical design issues for the various buildings – residential – office – commercial – tourism and others.

Course name: Graduation Project

Course Number: 33514

Prerequisite: 33511+33426

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fifth

Credit hours: 10

• Practical application to the subject of the study that was chosen during the preliminary studies course according to the work stages (collecting data and information for the current situation – analyzing the current situation and finding alternatives and the survey program – final designs and the final report)

• Discussing scientific methods in analyzing engineering problems and their treatment methods – laboratory experiments – using computers – field visits – practical applications – using advanced technology and devices in the field of specialization.

Course name: Professional practice

Course Number: 33530

Prerequisite: 33423

Teaching language: Arabic + English

Course level: Fifth

Credit hours: 2

The course includes

·         Practicing the architectural profession in Libya

·         How to obtain a license to open an architectural or consulting office

·         How to register in local departments or municipalities to start practice

·         Basic and additional architectural services that must be provided to the customer

·         Successful architectural management of the office