The Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (BAA) is a pre-professional degree that prepares students for admittance to a two-year graduate program in architecture. The overall intent of the BAA degree program is to provide a firm grounding in the essential ideas, principles, theories and technologies that underlie the built environment. The design studio sequence, the core of the program, is where all the elements of the design process come together in exercises that build increasing skill and sophistication in the student designer.