The Lighting Minor
The LRC administers the lighting degree program at RPI. We have been offering premier education in the field of lighting since 1990 with the mission of educating the future leaders in lighting.
A graduate-level master's degree and an undergraduate minor are available for those wishing to pursue study in the field of lighting.
Undergraduate Lighting Minor
This 15-credit study gives students the awareness and the confidence to extend their creative work through the controlled use of light.
The minor in lighting gives students the awareness and the confidence to extend their creative work through controlled use of light. The program covers human responses to light, both visual and non-visual, and the means by which light is produced and controlled. Interactions of light with form, texture, and color are examined in the contexts of daylight, electric lighting, and their integration. The Lighting minor requires 15 credits.
The courses available to fulfill this 15-credit requirement are:
LGHT 4230 – Lighting Design Credit Hours: 4
LGHT 4760 – Lighting Workshop Credit Hours: 4
LGHT 4770 – Lighting Technologies and Applications Credit Hours: 4
LGHT 4830 – Physics of Light: Credit Hours: 3
LGHT 4835 – Physics of Light Laboratory: Credit Hours: 1
LGHT 4840 – Human Factors in Lighting Credit Hours: 4
LGHT 4940 – Advanced Individual Projects in Lighting Credit Hours: 1 to 6
Note: Other 4000-level or higher courses (from a related discipline) with the approval of the Lighting Program Director. Students, with the assistance of their advisor, select 4 courses that best fit their educational objectives.
