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Engines, Gamer Services, and Cloud Bachelor of the students to respect and enjoy sketching techniques using manual provides the physical, spatial, and Topics as functional and aesthetic
Hosting Dedicated Servers. drawing as a method of creative and digital means. temporal frameworks for human elements for residential interiors
ITE 490 - Selected Topics in IT Science in problem solving and understand DES 130 - Design Foundation interaction with the surrounding are covered and each room study
is presented on a digital board.
the role and need for drawing in the
environment, the context, and
Credit Hours: 3 Interior Design design disciplines. Credit Hours: 3.00 (1 Lecture + 4 culture. Students will be encouraged to learn
Prerequisite: Department Consent- DES 110 - Design Studio) IND 280 - History of Interior basic manual rendering and digital
Determined based on topics Prerequisite: DES 100 project presenting techniques.
Communication I Design
Information Technology curriculum Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio) This is a foundation class in principles Credit Hours: 3 IND 235 - Building Technology I
cover fundamental principles in Major Requirements Prerequisite: No Prerequisite relating to all areas of design of the Prerequisite: DES 220
different area such as database built environment. The course is Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture+ 4 studio)
Networks design and administration, This course aims at developing the designed to introduce the students This course examines 20th and 21st- Prerequisite: DES 120 + DES 130
Mobile application development, Web IND 100 - Introduction to visual skills used by professionals in to the basic elements of design century Architecture and Interior
design, Secure, Operating systems Interior Design the built environment. The course including vocabulary, configuration, Design, through lectures, reading Discussion of various aspects of
and many other areas. The main offers an introduction to basic form and order. The classes consist of assignments, research, and design the construction industry including
purpose of this course is to study Credit Hours: 3 drawing and graphic modeling skills both theoretical and practical studio assignments. The course focuses on introduction of building technology,
Information Technology related Prerequisite: No Prerequisite for architecture, interior design which is based on assignments, field issues concerning style, technology, fundamentals of structures and
topics that are not included in the This course introduces the profession civil engineers and Construction studies and contextual study. The urbanism, regionalism, function, building types, typical construction
current Information Technology of interior design, its history, and its managers. Instruction on two- studio assignments and exercises and reform to address the diverse materials and methods. This course
curriculum. The content of the course related specialties and disciplines. dimensional visualization of the are aimed to demonstrate an forces that have shaped modern would assist the students in exploring
and the subjects vary depending The course introduces the basic built environment and space will understanding of the use of a model architecture and Interior Design. the external and internal structures
on the instructor’s background and elements of interior design. It will be covered. This includes technical for structuring design information, This course deals with the theoretical of buildings. Upon completion of this
students ’ interest in the subject. present and explain terminology as well as freehand drawing and design process, research and concepts of Interior Design and subject the student should be able
to understand the different building
that helps clarify and amplify representations. Basic 2d image communication skills. Arts developed by contemporary technologies and materials, uses
processing software as well as basic
architectural and interior design 2D vector drawing software are DES 210 - Computer Aided movements. These movements led of building codes and standards &
thought and introduce students introduced. Topics include: basic Design to contemporary features in interior and building components, applied
to careers in interior design. This freehand drawing and drafting skills, spaces and furniture design. This loads, and fundamentals of structural
course explains the practical and Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture+ 4 lab) course helps students enhance their design principles. Demonstrate the
conceptual concerns underpinning orthographic projection, shades and Prerequisite: DES 120 knowledge of contemporary interior basic building process from “need”
shadow, paraline drawing, sketching
interior design are also emphasizes skills, drawing and projection This course serves as an introduction design, through the study and to “completion ” and explain various
the interdisciplinary nature of the composition, Drafted and freehand to various electronic media analysis of different styles and artistic branches of construction technology
profession. The course provides an drawing of actual and proposed employed within the practice of movements. and relationships to other industries
introduction to the practical and architecture and interior design. IND 215 - Interior Design Studio
ethical dimension of the profession. environments is considered including Creative and effective skills in the IND 240 - Color Theory in Design
analysis of light, shade, materials, I Applications
DES 100 - Graphic Thinking and textures and various contextual use of computers in architecture Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4
and interior design applications are
Freehand Drawing elements. Basic linear multimedia studio) Credit Hours: 3
software are also introduced to consistently stressed. The course Prerequisite: No Prerequisite
Credit Hours: 3.00 (1 Lecture + 4 students as a presentation and introduces the students to the Prerequisite: DES120 + DES130
Studio) design communication tool. concepts of building information This course will study color theory
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite Educational enrichment activities modeling. Students completing this This course is an introduction to and its application relative to the
Thinking in the field of design is in this course will include field-trips course will have a working knowledge basic design process requirements. interior environment. Emphasis will
greatly enhanced by the use of to project exhibits as well as art of BIM software as well as advanced Emphasis is placed on the predesign be placed on human response to
rendering software and nonlinear
more than one sense. The long museums and architectural offices. stage, design programming, design color, the science of color/light and
history of architectural design has DES 120 - Design multimedia tools. elements, and circulations. Through color/pigment, principles of color
produced a great wealth of graphic DES 220 - Architectural History I a small-scale residential project, design, and implementation through
techniques and imagery in response Communication II design programming, analyzing, and design projects. The Students will
to highly complex, comprehensive, Credit Hours: 3 (1 lecture + 4 studio) Credit Hours: 3 understanding spatial relationships be able to do a clear study for color
quantitative-qualitative problems. Prerequisite: DES 110 Prerequisite: ENG 200 (space planning, furniture scheme and apply it to different
The aim of the course is to introduce This course builds upon the This course is a historical and arrangements) will be conducted. interior spaces.
and train the students in free hand conceptual survey of architecture and It started with hand drawing and IND 335 - Textiles
drawing. This course would then drawing skills introduced in Design design from prehistory to Baroque sketches of Space Planning and
Communication I and introduces
enable the students to become the students to three-dimensional and Rococo. The course will address Elevations for each room in parallel Credit Hours: 3 (2 lecture + 2 studio)
creative and imaginative while visualization of the built environment questions of style and cover the with a digital mood board, color Prerequisite: IND 290
improving their sketching and focusing on perspective projections. major movements overtime. The scheme, and furniture selection study A study of fibers, yarns, fabric
conceptual skills. It would enable in addition to the understanding of
The courses also introduces basic 3D course will focus on the way design construction and finishes as related

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