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New Student Orientation Video from the dean.
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- [00:00:00.840]Welcome to new student enrollment.
- [00:00:02.970]My name is Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg
- [00:00:05.610]and I'm the dean here at the College of Architecture
- [00:00:08.100]at the University of Nebraska.
- [00:00:10.440]You made a wonderful choice coming
- [00:00:12.450]to University of Nebraska
- [00:00:14.070]and studying in the College of Architecture.
- [00:00:16.590]The world is grappling with many wicked problems.
- [00:00:20.160]From housing to climate change, coming out
- [00:00:23.130]of the pandemic and looking at more challenging futures.
- [00:00:28.980]You have an opportunity through your work
- [00:00:31.560]in the College of Architecture and eventually in your career
- [00:00:34.470]in the built environment to design a better future.
- [00:00:37.920]If we do our job together over the next several years,
- [00:00:41.700]you will move into the profession
- [00:00:43.860]and you'll help to create healthier places for people,
- [00:00:47.880]healthier buildings, and ultimately a healthier planet.
- [00:00:52.050]So let's get started.
- [00:00:54.296](calm music)
- [00:00:58.413]Our mission drives the thinking within our college,
- [00:01:02.700]we create a resilient, healthy,
- [00:01:04.980]and beautiful world within a diverse
- [00:01:07.710]and inclusive culture of rigorous inquiry and innovation.
- [00:01:12.720]United by the transformative power of planning and design.
- [00:01:17.130]I think fundamentally we have to believe
- [00:01:19.080]that the work we're doing here together makes a difference
- [00:01:22.410]in the world.
- [00:01:23.243]And we believe this mission encapsulates that idea.
- [00:01:27.960]This work matters.
- [00:01:29.160]It's important, and it's worth taking it seriously.
- [00:01:32.460]With our mission, we're supported
- [00:01:33.900]by a culture where our intellectual environment thrives
- [00:01:38.070]because of our diverse perspectives.
- [00:01:40.560]We have a dynamic, close-knit community
- [00:01:43.560]and we pursue meaningful impact together.
- [00:01:47.400]I think it's important to recognize
- [00:01:49.080]that we have something to learn from everyone
- [00:01:51.060]who's sitting around you, the instructors,
- [00:01:54.573]the professionals, of course, as well as other students.
- [00:01:58.230]And those may be students
- [00:01:59.430]within your discipline or studying another discipline.
- [00:02:04.680]And you'll hear a lot more about the d.ONE sequence
- [00:02:07.500]which is a chance to get to know everybody.
- [00:02:10.410]And then throughout your career
- [00:02:11.940]you'll have the opportunity to continue to seek input
- [00:02:15.300]from instructors as well as students in other divisions.
- [00:02:19.200]And then finally, our values.
- [00:02:20.910]We have five core values
- [00:02:22.740]that we believe guide our mission, and our culture.
- [00:02:26.670]One is demand excellence
- [00:02:28.290]and that is of ourselves and of one another.
- [00:02:31.320]We need to hold ourselves as well as our fellow students
- [00:02:34.290]and even our instructors to high standards.
- [00:02:37.290]We have important work to do, and it's worth doing it well.
- [00:02:40.590]Number two, be courageous.
- [00:02:42.720]We know the difference that our work can make
- [00:02:45.420]in other people's lives.
- [00:02:47.040]We need to be courageous
- [00:02:48.900]and strive to make this world a better place.
- [00:02:51.630]There is a time and a place to do what we know works well
- [00:02:54.660]and there's also a time and a place to try something new
- [00:02:57.540]because what we've been doing for so many years
- [00:02:59.640]or decades has taken us down the wrong path.
- [00:03:03.480]Of course, discernment is needed to know the difference.
- [00:03:07.290]Number three, practice empathy.
- [00:03:09.660]One of the greatest parts about engaging in the design
- [00:03:12.510]and planning disciplines is that we're designing for others.
- [00:03:17.100]In order to do that well, we need to understand their lives,
- [00:03:20.490]their work, their needs, their desires.
- [00:03:24.660]And through that process
- [00:03:26.220]can we plan and design effectively?
- [00:03:30.540]Understanding each other through each other's lenses,
- [00:03:35.820]through each other's eyes is critically important
- [00:03:38.880]to successful design and planning.
- [00:03:42.150]Next, look beyond.
- [00:03:43.740]We have to look beyond the immediate
- [00:03:45.270]and understand the long term
- [00:03:46.920]and more holistic impacts of our work.
- [00:03:50.160]And again, we'll unpack this
- [00:03:51.600]through various courses throughout your time here.
- [00:03:54.690]And then finally, we need to inspire impact.
- [00:03:57.930]Really, we all should aspire to create and think
- [00:04:01.650]and dream in a way that will be contagious
- [00:04:05.190]and compel others to practice these same values.
- [00:04:11.190]All right, so the d.ONE sequence is the place
- [00:04:15.660]where all of this gets started.
- [00:04:17.910]It's the core of your first year coursework.
- [00:04:20.760]It is designed to open your eyes to the diversity
- [00:04:23.400]of design and comprises aspects of design and planning.
- [00:04:27.720]From the disciplines of landscape architecture,
- [00:04:30.420]architecture and interior design.
- [00:04:33.480]We have found that this introduction sequence
- [00:04:35.550]provides the necessary foundation
- [00:04:37.590]for a strong career in any of these disciplines
- [00:04:41.070]while simultaneously reinforcing that good design comes
- [00:04:44.460]through the integration
- [00:04:46.410]between this disciplinary expertise.
- [00:04:49.530]We know our students gain a greater appreciation
- [00:04:52.740]of the experience of others while also learning
- [00:04:56.040]how to work most successfully with others,
- [00:04:59.070]through this integrated design curriculum.
- [00:05:02.520]We have even seen students come into the d.ONE sequence
- [00:05:05.220]with one idea about their educational direction and emerge
- [00:05:08.910]with an unexpected, but even more passionate interest
- [00:05:12.390]in another area of our college.
- [00:05:15.210]As you can see in the diagram, there are several aspects
- [00:05:18.450]to this d.ONE program, d.THINK where we get
- [00:05:21.480]into creative problem solving, design drawing
- [00:05:25.830]where we learn technical skills that help
- [00:05:28.410]our ideas become reality, the history of design
- [00:05:31.530]so that we know what's worked and maybe some
- [00:05:34.800]of the mistakes of our past so we don't relive them.
- [00:05:38.010]d.MAKE, to take those tactical skills further
- [00:05:41.370]and help our ideas come to reality in the world.
- [00:05:45.300]Computer applications, the digital
- [00:05:48.060]to the previous drawing and making analogs.
- [00:05:51.420]And then the introduction to design
- [00:05:53.280]where all of this really starts to come together.
- [00:05:59.040]So the first up is design thinking, and it's really
- [00:06:01.890]about understanding problems and understanding challenges
- [00:06:06.150]so that we can bring our capabilities to help solve them.
- [00:06:11.370]We need to understand the whole problem
- [00:06:13.393]and then we build and create a framework
- [00:06:15.780]through this design thinking process to solve the problem.
- [00:06:19.800]We can really sum this up as creative problem solving
- [00:06:23.460]and I would say it's the key
- [00:06:24.750]to unlocking some of those most wicked
- [00:06:26.820]and protracted problems that face society
- [00:06:29.220]that we mentioned at the beginning.
- [00:06:31.620]In this series, on the slide, we're looking
- [00:06:34.560]at examples of student work where they were unpacking
- [00:06:38.820]the waste from making, whether that was product design
- [00:06:42.720]or building design or entire landscapes of design.
- [00:06:47.190]The work we do does make waste.
- [00:06:49.830]And the challenge that we pose these students
- [00:06:51.810]was how to think about how that waste was food
- [00:06:55.260]or how that waste could become a resource
- [00:06:57.450]for the next step in the cycle.
- [00:07:02.700]On this slide, you'll see how we thought
- [00:07:05.280]about the entire system of the problem, the whole process.
- [00:07:10.050]So not just designing a single product or an interior
- [00:07:13.260]or even a single building or even a whole landscape.
- [00:07:17.910]Instead as the end all, instead, we're thinking
- [00:07:21.150]of the design process more holistically.
- [00:07:24.330]So designing a system
- [00:07:25.740]that accomplishes those individual needs,
- [00:07:28.080]the product or this interior space
- [00:07:30.180]or the building or the landscape, but doing so
- [00:07:33.180]in a way that doesn't create new problems
- [00:07:35.280]that were not considered and not solved.
- [00:07:37.770]Moreover, we're trying to solve the system
- [00:07:41.100]and designing systems
- [00:07:42.673]that intentionally spark cycles of flourishing.
- [00:07:46.770]This is the mindset that we try to instill
- [00:07:48.660]during design thinking.
- [00:07:52.410]Next up is design make or d.MAKING or design making.
- [00:07:56.910]And in this process, in this course, we try
- [00:07:59.100]to help students learn how to take these ideas
- [00:08:02.520]from design thinking and transform the ideas and systems
- [00:08:06.810]into representations that we can more easily communicate
- [00:08:10.800]with others.
- [00:08:12.030]So if we have a brilliant idea about a product
- [00:08:15.450]or an interior or architecture or an entire system
- [00:08:18.930]but we cannot successfully communicate
- [00:08:21.030]that idea with others, the idea dies.
- [00:08:24.690]In this course
- [00:08:26.231]you'll be exposed to drawings, orthographic drawings,
- [00:08:28.530]axonometric drawings, handmade models, digital models,
- [00:08:32.340]3D printed models, laser cut models, and you'll know when
- [00:08:35.850]and why to use each tool so that it supports the idea.
- [00:08:41.340]This is a series of skill building exercises
- [00:08:45.540]but through that process, you'll also learn
- [00:08:47.970]that the process of making starts to inform your thinking.
- [00:08:53.040]And really that gets to the heart of design.
- [00:08:55.410]That iteration between thinking and making is design.
- [00:09:02.087]Design drawing is what it sounds like.
- [00:09:04.290]It's really about observation.
- [00:09:07.800]When you take pencil and ink or charcoal
- [00:09:11.310]and paper and you look at a space, or you look at a form
- [00:09:16.170]or a landscape, and you have to represent that on paper,
- [00:09:20.040]you have to look at it in a whole different way.
- [00:09:21.990]I would argue
- [00:09:23.595]that simply taking a photograph allows your mind
- [00:09:26.220]to gloss over the reality of that space or that place.
- [00:09:30.000]Whereas when you take up pen and paper or charcoal,
- [00:09:33.810]you have to look more carefully and look more critically
- [00:09:36.600]and understand through that process in a different way
- [00:09:39.690]than you can if you just quickly capture it and move on.
- [00:09:44.400]We truly see what we draw.
- [00:09:47.730]I would argue we often miss
- [00:09:49.470]what's most important when we quickly snap photos.
- [00:09:55.110]So really these are the analog methods, pen, ink
- [00:10:00.491](indistinct) charcoal, et cetera.
- [00:10:02.940]And then next up is the digital applications
- [00:10:05.670]where we'll learn some digital techniques
- [00:10:08.790]for representation through similar drawing tools
- [00:10:12.240]but just not pen and ink, rather digital drawing tools.
- [00:10:16.680]But we'll also learn about 3D modeling,
- [00:10:18.990]whether that's through Rhino
- [00:10:20.460]or any of the other 3D modeling softwares
- [00:10:23.520]and how to take these ideas and organize them
- [00:10:26.100]and kind of create narrative
- [00:10:27.780]on larger paper, larger digital paper, if you will,
- [00:10:32.850]through the Adobe Creative Suite.
- [00:10:35.760]And what you learn in this first year, you'll iterate on
- [00:10:38.250]and build upon through every year thereafter.
- [00:10:41.611]And I would just encourage you to take
- [00:10:43.333]a studio based model here and learn from each other.
- [00:10:46.140]Learn from your fellow students.
- [00:10:48.060]Each of you bring different skills
- [00:10:50.670]from your previous life experiences
- [00:10:53.460]and you each have different lenses to use to look through.
- [00:10:56.280]As you create these digital or analog representations,
- [00:11:00.180]lean on one another, ask one another, how does this look?
- [00:11:03.780]And what do they think of
- [00:11:05.100]and what emerges as they look at it?
- [00:11:07.230]And then share your narrative and see
- [00:11:08.760]if it resonates with the ideas that are represented
- [00:11:11.040]in digital or paper space.
- [00:11:15.930]You know, the College of Architecture is really a series
- [00:11:18.690]of experiential learning exercises.
- [00:11:22.500]The rest of the world, the rest of the university
- [00:11:26.040]and other universities seem to be waking up
- [00:11:28.680]to the magic of these experiential learning processes.
- [00:11:33.450]And it's really been core
- [00:11:34.830]to what the College of Architecture is from its inception.
- [00:11:38.310]We do creative problem solving
- [00:11:40.800]with community-based education
- [00:11:43.230]and create experiential learning that is transformative.
- [00:11:47.850]And we just encourage you to lean in.
- [00:11:50.490]All undergrads within the College
- [00:11:52.170]of Architecture have an opportunity to take a whole range
- [00:11:55.440]of experiential learning courses.
- [00:11:57.120]Many of our courses are designated as experiential learning
- [00:12:01.590]and we just really believe
- [00:12:02.730]that this hands-on process helps the ideas
- [00:12:07.140]to really become solidified
- [00:12:10.500]and eventually make their way into the world
- [00:12:13.890]with community-based problem solving and engagement.
- [00:12:20.760]All right, some housekeeping.
- [00:12:23.070]ACE stands for Achievement Centered Education
- [00:12:26.610]and you'll be working with your advisors
- [00:12:28.710]throughout your time here at UNL to ensure
- [00:12:31.950]that you're covering all these core requirements.
- [00:12:34.770]You'll have 30 hours of general ed,
- [00:12:37.140]typically 10 courses of three credits each.
- [00:12:40.410]You'll notice that some
- [00:12:41.460]of the core courses within our curriculum
- [00:12:43.620]in the college are ACE approved courses.
- [00:12:48.090]So again, you'll be working with your advisor to ensure
- [00:12:51.392]that you're getting all of these core courses covered,
- [00:12:55.380]both inside and outside the college.
- [00:12:58.270]And I would say being smart
- [00:12:59.103]about how you address these core curriculum courses
- [00:13:04.230]may help you achieve another minor outside the college.
- [00:13:07.350]And I always think that's kind of
- [00:13:10.813]a differentiating factor.
- [00:13:12.000]So maybe you want to pursue a minor in textiles
- [00:13:16.080]or you want to pursue a minor
- [00:13:17.730]in one of the fine arts areas or in business.
- [00:13:22.530]Each of those are differentiators
- [00:13:24.300]for your career and might open your pathways
- [00:13:27.810]for a different type of career path.
- [00:13:31.890]As you get through your d.ONE sequence
- [00:13:34.170]and we get into the spring semester
- [00:13:36.060]you'll be working with your advisors
- [00:13:37.620]and your professors on putting your portfolio together
- [00:13:40.590]for admission into the second year program
- [00:13:43.470]of whatever discipline you're most interested in.
- [00:13:46.380]Your professors and your advisors will help guide you
- [00:13:48.570]and make sure you get it in on time
- [00:13:50.250]and you use the right format.
- [00:13:51.840]But here you can see some of the outlines.
- [00:13:53.490]So really important to do good work
- [00:13:55.350]through each of these d.ONE courses
- [00:13:58.170]Drawing, thinking, making, and computer skills
- [00:14:01.230]because that will be critical
- [00:14:03.120]to your continued success within the college.
- [00:14:05.910]You'll notice that in the College of Architecture,
- [00:14:09.333]we have what's called differential tuition.
- [00:14:11.010]And I think it's important to understand what this is.
- [00:14:14.550]Really what this affords is the low student
- [00:14:16.770]to faculty ratios that we have
- [00:14:18.750]in a lot of our making as well as studio courses.
- [00:14:24.420]You'll note that often we have 12
- [00:14:26.250]or 15 or maybe 18 students
- [00:14:28.620]but even at 18 students per faculty,
- [00:14:32.250]that's a really low ratio that is not often experienced
- [00:14:37.710]by others within other programs.
- [00:14:40.230]The other thing you'll notice is
- [00:14:41.220]that we have a five credit hour studio base
- [00:14:44.100]as a lot of our pedagogy within the college here
- [00:14:47.580]but we'll have 12 hours of instruction.
- [00:14:50.460]Most other courses where you have a five credit load
- [00:14:54.000]it'll be five hours of instruction.
- [00:14:55.650]But in our college, it's 12 hours
- [00:14:57.180]because that hands-on low student faculty ratio
- [00:15:00.420]and really one-on-one learning
- [00:15:02.070]in many, many cases is so critical
- [00:15:04.440]to learning, to education, and to success.
- [00:15:09.540]The other thing that the differential tuition supports
- [00:15:13.110]is a broader access to a suite of making tools
- [00:15:17.430]whether that's camera checkout or wood shop,
- [00:15:19.890]or the CNC machines, the laser cutters, 3D printers,
- [00:15:23.790]access to the computer lab or the architecture library.
- [00:15:27.330]We are a resource intensive college
- [00:15:29.490]and the differential tuition helps support to make sure
- [00:15:33.030]that those resources are available broadly
- [00:15:35.670]and hopefully with long hours of access.
- [00:15:40.470]So finally, I just want to draw your attention
- [00:15:42.330]to a wide range of opportunities.
- [00:15:44.430]College will go fast and you need to keep your eyes open
- [00:15:47.940]so that you can make sure you avail yourselves
- [00:15:50.100]of the resources and opportunities that are around you.
- [00:15:53.340]I really would encourage you to just engage,
- [00:15:55.800]ask the faculty questions.
- [00:15:58.170]Don't be shy.
- [00:15:59.190]Faculty want to hear from you.
- [00:16:01.440]I know the professors
- [00:16:03.240]or even the dean might feel like an intimidating persona
- [00:16:07.560]but we're really here to support you and serve you.
- [00:16:10.590]So ask for help, ask students for help.
- [00:16:13.890]Ask your instructor.
- [00:16:15.600]And the dean's door is always open.
- [00:16:18.420]Ask for help, engage and ask questions.
- [00:16:22.350]Show up and pay attention and you'll succeed.
- [00:16:26.430]There are a range of opportunities.
- [00:16:27.990]There's undergraduate research symposiums.
- [00:16:31.770]Your faculty are actively engaged
- [00:16:33.810]and they would love to work with inquisitive students.
- [00:16:36.450]So ask questions, help your faculty know
- [00:16:39.750]that you're interested in what they're working on.
- [00:16:41.970]Some of those are paid
- [00:16:42.990]and some of them are available for credit.
- [00:16:46.320]There are a whole range of student organizations
- [00:16:48.810]and I really think that the best experience will come
- [00:16:52.050]from getting engaged in one or more of these organizations.
- [00:16:55.680]Each of the professional disciplines have a student chapter
- [00:16:59.220]so the American Institute of Architecture Students,
- [00:17:02.610]American Society of Interior Design Student Chapter,
- [00:17:07.050]the International Interior Design Association,
- [00:17:10.110]American Society of Landscape Architecture,
- [00:17:13.170]US Green Building Council,
- [00:17:14.880]the National Organization of Minority Architects,
- [00:17:18.150]the Alpha Rho Chi Group, Queer Nebraska Design,
- [00:17:21.480]Tao Sigma Delta, Student Advisory Boards.
- [00:17:24.630]So get engaged, find what resonates with you
- [00:17:27.390]and if none of these are right, then build your own.
- [00:17:30.150]There are a range of study abroad programs
- [00:17:32.520]and I would really encourage students,
- [00:17:33.990]if at all possible to take advantage of them.
- [00:17:35.970]We're working really hard to try to make them affordable,
- [00:17:39.030]try to provide additional scholarship opportunities
- [00:17:42.060]and we're even getting creative and looking
- [00:17:43.830]for ways that students can earn money while studying abroad.
- [00:17:49.980]There's every spring, there's a career fair,
- [00:17:53.400]an internship fair, and this has been pretty tremendous.
- [00:17:57.000]And of course, if you've been following us on social media,
- [00:18:00.630]what's happening is the students engage in this career fair
- [00:18:03.870]and then they get hired, they get job opportunities
- [00:18:06.840]and we're starting to track those job opportunities
- [00:18:09.930]through our social media networks.
- [00:18:11.460]So just take a scroll through the past
- [00:18:14.280]in our social media networks
- [00:18:15.660]and you'll see our Just Hired campaign
- [00:18:18.600]and you'll get to learn where our graduates are landing
- [00:18:21.330]and reach out to those students, look 'em up on LinkedIn
- [00:18:24.480]and connect with them and say,
- [00:18:25.597]"hey, I'm a brand new grad and I'm really inspired
- [00:18:28.260]by what you're doing, and I want to stay connected."
- [00:18:31.170]We are a big family
- [00:18:32.430]and we like to think about Huskers helping Huskers.
- [00:18:36.210]So connect and engage.
- [00:18:39.750]We've had tremendous success with our job placements.
- [00:18:42.540]So this is one that of course parents like to hear
- [00:18:44.640]but any students who are also looking
- [00:18:47.100]to land a job when they graduate,
- [00:18:50.130]really if you show up, you do the work,
- [00:18:52.620]you pay attention and you engage with your faculty members
- [00:18:56.460]you're gonna find success as you move forward.
- [00:18:58.800]You can see upwards of 90% job placement
- [00:19:02.010]in all of our degree disciplines.
- [00:19:06.570]I mentioned previously, our social media platforms,
- [00:19:09.690]pretty much whatever platform you're on, so are we.
- [00:19:12.690]Our handle is UNL architecture.
- [00:19:15.690]We also have a student group that's engaged in TikTok
- [00:19:18.720]and probably some other campaigns
- [00:19:21.210]that we can't keep track of,
- [00:19:22.530]but get engaged and you'll find them,
- [00:19:25.652]and it's a great way to share what you're doing
- [00:19:28.860]with the world.
- [00:19:31.080]All right, so that's a wrap, at least for me.
- [00:19:33.840]You'll hear more from advising next, but I really
- [00:19:37.380]just want to underscore the value of this education.
- [00:19:41.490]With this creative problem solving,
- [00:19:44.760]community based experiential education
- [00:19:47.850]you can really paint your own future.
- [00:19:50.820]You can design your own future
- [00:19:52.830]and you can make the world a better place.
- [00:19:54.540]These are the tools.
- [00:19:55.560]Now it's up to you.
- [00:19:57.120]We are united by an unwavering belief
- [00:19:59.850]in the transformational power of design and planning
- [00:20:03.540]and our ability to effect positive change in this world.
- [00:20:08.250]Go Huskers.
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