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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the historical context, the view, reach well-reasoned conclusions, and test them
against relevant criteria;
state-of-the-art, and emerging issues in the field of
interior design and its role in contemporary society;
INTERIOR DESIGN 2. Demonstrate critical reasoning and requisite 3. Resolve the needs of the client, owner, and user
taking into consideration the relationship between
human behavior and the physical environment
quantitative skills to identify, formulate, and resolve
interior design problems, and to create designs and the diverse needs, values, norms, abilities, and
that reflect economic, environmental, and social socioeconomic patterns that characterize different
sensitivities; locations, cultures and individuals.
3. Demonstrate a systems viewpoint, critical thinking, 4. Prepare a comprehensive program for an interior
effective communication and interpersonal skills, a design project, including assessment of client and
spirit of curiosity, and reflection in a professional and user needs, critical review of appropriate precedents,
ethical manner; an inventory of space requirements, an analysis of
site conditions, a review of relevant codes, laws and
4. Display commitment to life-long learning and standards, and a definition of design assessment
professional development, involvement in professional criteria;
activity and public service, and achievement of
professional licensure; and 5. Produce a comprehensive interior design project
solution that includes the development of
5. Demonstrate broad intellectual training for success programmed spacing while integrating lighting, color
in multidisciplinary professional practice, in interior schemes, furniture, life-safety provisions and the
design or diverse related careers, and toward principles of sustainability;
achieving leadership roles in industry, government,
and academia. 6. Select and apply construction materials, products,
Program Learning Outcomes components, furniture, and building assemblies
to prepare technically precise drawings, outline
The following program outcomes describe competencies specifications and estimates of construction costs and
and skills that our students acquire by the time of life-cycle costs for a proposed design;
graduation. Our graduates are expected to be able to:
7. Assess, select and conceptually integrate different
1. Communicate effectively, orally, in writing as well as building environmental, electro-mechanical and
graphically using manual techniques as well as digital structural systems into interior design; and
tools to generate, evaluate, develop and communicate
ideas; 8. Demonstrate an understanding of the legal aspects
Introduction Program Mission and ethical issues of practice organization and
2. Gather, assess and record and apply relevant management as well as the role of professional
Interior Design is about the planning, design, construction The educational mission of the Interior Design Program information and raise clear precise questions, development, and the need to provide leadership in
and operation of indoor facilities essential to modern life, is to provide students with a multidisciplinary curriculum interpret information, consider diverse points of the building design and construction process.
ranging from indoor space planning, enhancing the quality that is fundamental, yet broad and flexible. The program
of our indoor environment, to accommodating human seeks to produce graduates who are well-rounded in
activities inside all types of buildings such as shopping mathematical, scientific, and technical knowledge; who
malls, hospitals, hotels, professional offices, educational have the ability to analyze, evaluate, and design interior Curriculum
institutions, private homes, shops, and much more. systems; who have the ability to communicate effectively; Total Credit Hours: 132
These issues establish the fundamental framework of the who have had meaningful opportunities for undergraduate
instructional, research and service programs in interior research; and who have acquired an understanding and
design. Societal needs, economic conditions and public appreciation for global and societal issues and are thus
safety are paramount in the work accomplished by interior prepared for a career path toward leadership in industry, General Education Requirements 30 credit hours
designers. High-tech tools such as computer aided design government, and academia.
(CAD) and 3-D computer modeling are a necessity in all Program Objectives Major Requirements 96 credit hours
areas of interior design.
The following program objectives are broad statements that Open Electives 6 credit hours
Both private companies and public agencies seek interior describe the career and professional accomplishments,
designers for a variety of professional positions. Many which should be achieved during the first few years
work for engineering and architecture consulting firms following our students’ graduation. Overall, our graduates
or construction companies as interior designers and are expected to:
interior project managers. Graduates are equally prepared
to pursue M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in allied fields of
architecture and design.

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