DEA 2750

Lighting Design: Light InForming Space

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Light brings both necessity and nuance to the built environment, creating functional spaces and conjuring apparitions in perception, scale, time and sensory impulses. Developing a working knowledge of lighting design while seeking light as a transformative element, students will create lighting design/documentation and build light fixtures.

Prerequisites DEA 1110, DEA 1150.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment preference given to: DEA undergraduate majors. Intended for: juniors and seniors in design, engineering, architecture, hospitality or non-design majors as well.

Distribution Requirements (D-HE, LAD-HE)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2022SP, 2021SP, 2020SP

Outcomes

• Immersion in luminance as a spatial opportunist.
• Competency in principles of light, color theory, luminaire typologies, lighting calculations, energy efficiency, and re-lamping techniques (ASHRAE Standards).
• Identify and classify luminaire and lighting types, luminance categories.
• Manipulation and integration of lighting technology and spatial dynamics.
• Model-making and hands-on experience building a light fixture.

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