Mission

The mission of the Interior Design (INDS) program is to educate and improve career prospects of skilled designers and planners who will successfully enhance the human experience and improve the natural, social and built environment. By fostering creativity, logical thinking, and contemporary problem solving strategies through teaching excellence and progressive curricula, we aim to deliver a generation of innovative and human-centered designers capable of creating human habitation spaces that are healthy, safe, and inspiring.

Objectives

• Provide students with both print and multi-media design courses.
• Provide students with the necessary thinking, planning and execution skills to succeed in the workplace.
• Provide students with the key elements to develop a portfolio and CV that stands out in the market.
• Allow students to explore various platforms through personal creative skills.
• Emphasize both theoretical and practical aspects of design, which will in turn present a complete understanding of the design field.
• Explore the diverse roles of designers as effective visual creators, ethical and social beings and problem solvers.
• Provide students with the ability to integrate broad-based knowledge of standards and models related to sustainable practice, material research, environmental quality, aesthetics and technology in the design of interior spaces.
• Provide students with the ability to develop sensitivity to the concerns of people, sustainable design practices and the social, economic and cultural differences in interior design.
• Engage students in multi-disciplinary collaborations. 

Program Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the BS program in Interior Design, graduates will acquire:

• An ability to apply systematic design process, design principles, Psychology of design theory, and color style in order to solve abstract and real interior design problems for various market sectors.
• An ability to produce competent construction documents for residential building project utilizing manual and digital drafting techniques.
• An ability to apply relevant building codes, laws, regulations, sustainability and universality to human welfare and safety when designing interior spaces.
• An ability to apply current industry practices and methods to select materials of interior finishes and furnishings for interior design projects
• An ability to reinforce design ideas with empirical evidence, qualitatively and quantitatively.
• An ability to apply contemporary tools to communicate design ideas and concepts.
• An ability to collaborate effectively with others to achieve common goals.
• An ability to uphold best in class business practices and professional and ethical conduct.
• An ability to develop a professional portfolio.