The Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A.A.) is a pre-professional degree that prepares students for admittance to a two-year graduate program in architecture, or for a career in related design fields, or related professions associated with the built environment. The overall intent of the B.A.A. 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. this is a more flexible path, and allows students to select many of their courses starting in the third year. It can help prepare graduates for a career or a graduate degree in a related discipline, such as digital media, fabrication, landscape architecture, interior design, real estate development, industrial design, animation, urban design, construction management, etc.