“It’s just amazing to be able to go over [to the School of Design]...and to see the students working and to be pulling all-nighters [like undergraduates],” she said, adding that she has enjoyed exposure to “some of the greatest minds and thinkers” in urban design.
Yet, Ulrich-Verderber said that the newness of the program has made its structure a bit unclear.
“As you go along, you’re finding out what classes are acceptable,” she said. “As with anything new, there are just some kinks to be worked out in terms of clarity.”
K. Michael Hays, the assistant dean of the Graduate School of Design, said that following the experience of providing architecture studies as an HAA track, the School of Design hopes to make the track a separate concentration “as soon as we can.”
He said that they believe they can make that transition “in a year or so.”
—Staff writer Vimal S. Konduri can be reached at vimal.konduri@gmail.com.