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The Certificate in Interior Design will program provides the students with a strong foundation in the general principles of Interior interior Designdesign. The curriculum includes both academic and studio classes. History and theory classes include academic study in the areas of art history, architecture, interior design, and decorative arts. In addition, participants learn the fundamentals of color theory, space planning, building code and access issues, as well as beginning technical drawing skills. through the Introduction to Interior Design class. This Certificate is designed for the returning students seeking non-professional academic experience in the field of interior design field.

Three (3) required studio courses:
ID1000 Introduction to Interior Design
ID2100 Color Theory for Interiors
ID3110 Materials, Methods and Finishes

Three (3) required academic courses:
AH1010 Art History II
AH3020 Survey of Decorative Arts II (1800 – Present)
AH3030 History of Architecture and Interior Design

Credit certificates
Designed for individuals seeking professional development or a focused, sequential approach to a specific discipline, credit certificates from the Corcoran College of Art + Design may be completed through part-time study in one to three years. Certificate students fully participate in classes, often with Degree students, and are held to the same high standards.

Certificates in Design prepare students to enter one of several expanding technology-based fields, or advance their current design careers. Fine Arts Certificate students access the Corcoran’s well-equipped studios, extensive offerings, and outstanding faculty. Electives are chosen in consultation with an advisor who can also approve substitutions for required courses, based on students’ prior studies or experience.

Each certificate program is either 15.0 or 18.0 credits in length. With the exception of some Botanical Art and Illustration courses, each course carries 1.5 or 3.0 credits. For a certificate to be issued, the requirements must be completed within a three-year period with a grade of C or better in each course. Students must ensure that the Office of the Registrar receives notification of their completion of high school or the equivalent before submitting their certificate request form.

Interior Design Professor Nancy VanOver maintains her own design clientele and holds professional memberships with design organizations such as the National Council for Interior Design Qualification, American Society of Interior Designers and the International Interior Design Association. She attends yearly conferences and continuing education programs and, as a result, will pass on to you the latest trends, codes, standards, and research.

You’ll take a variety of courses, including principles of both residential and commercial design, the history of architecture and interiors, and business practices. You’ll learn technical drafting and rendering skills and will develop a working knowledge of building construction and sustainable design and aging in place. You’ll take the best of what you design in each course and add to your portfolio, which you’ll use in your job search.

There are several opportunities that will help prepare you for a career in interior design. During your internship between your junior and senior years, you might follow in the footsteps of former Adrian students who spent the summer at American International University in London. In addition, the department invites designers, building inspectors, manufacturer representatives, and architects as guest speakers to help provide you with an inside perspective on the industry. Many trips are also planned to Chicago to visit the Merchandise Mart, the Art institute of Chicago, attend kitchen and bath shows, take architectural walking tours, or attend trade shows and career days. By the end of the program, the department will have prepared you to successfully design and implement interior environments that meet the needs of your clients. Recent graduates are employed as showroom consultants, buyers, designers, kitchen and bath planners, commercial designers, and residential designers.

Professional profile

A graduate in Architecture and Design is a professional expert able to analyze in a critical way architectural works and the evolution of the space inhabited by humanity. He/She can cooperate in planning and realizing changes in the environment; he/she can make historical and morphological analysis, reliefs, surveys, etc.
Qialifying aspects
The European Community considers the architects as experts to be protected. This implies a growing importance in the field of safeguard of places and environmental upgrading processes.
This is possible because of the multidisciplinary character of this course: the space on which an architect intervenes has no physical dimensions, but has an historical identity, with specific features. It is important that the students of this course have many interests.
Job opportunities
A graduate can be employed in professional offices, in public and private bodies, in industries, etc. There is a specific section in the Register of Architects, on which an architect can be put after having passed the exam, in section B (junior architect).
Course structure

Topics
There is one single curriculum for this course.
The aim of this course is to give skills that make the engineer able to be employed as soon as possibile, and impart knowledge that give him/her the opportunity to attend a Master of Science (Laurea specialistica)(recognized in Europe). The basic topics are drawings, geometry, computer science and mathematics. But also characterizing topics are studied, from the I year on (history of architecture, planning, analysis of town, etc). During the II and III year some very specific topics are studied, like topography, assessable value, town planning, etc; besides sociology and a foreign language, are studied.
One of the most interesting aspects of the course is the opportunity to apply what is studied to concrete examples. According to this a lot of laboratories are arranged: there are annual labs, within which students learn how to work in a group, supported by a professor, and how to write projects. Students develop communication skills, which are very important in this profession.
Those who want to attend the course Land, Town and Environment Planning can choose the curriculum Architecture of Green Areas, which includes some specific topics at the Faculty of Agriculture.
During the III year it is compulsory to undergo training and the final exam consists of the oral discussion of a tesi, a work written by the student, with his inputs on the course.
Laboratories
Architectural planning labs are arranged during each year of the course. During the II year a lab on Construction is arranged. During the III year in Torino there are labs on Town Planning and Technological Innovation; in Mondovì there are labs on Town Planning and Environmental Technology.
Further activities
Students can attend thematic workshops in order to deepen their knowledge.

Final exam

The final exam consists of a public discussion of a dissertation or of a written thesis. The final assesment of the student is a combination of the average score obtained through all courses attended during his/her academic period plus the score of the final exam.
Master of Science (Laurea specialistica)

This Bachelor (Laurea di I livello)gives access to the following Master of Science Degrees(Laurea specialistica):
Master of Science Degree (Laurea specialistica) in Architecture (Torino)
Master of Science Degree in Architecture (Rehabilitation and Revaluation)(Torino)
Master of Science Degree in Architecture (Environment and Land)(Mondovì)
Master of Science Degree in Land, Town and Environment Planning (Torino)
After having passed the exam it is possible to be put on the Register of Architects, section A.
Master of Science Degree (Laurea specialistica)in Architecture (Torino) This Master of Science creates designers that can represent theoretical and methodological aspects of the basic sciences, technological and structural aspects of contructions. They can understand and solve complex architectural problems, transform and modify the environment, according to the need of the contemporary society.
They can plan works and manage their realization, coordinating the work of other experts in architecture, restoration, urban green and landscape.
Master of Science Degree (Laurea specialistica) in Architecture (Rehabilitation and Revaluation)(Torino)
To have more information on this course you can see the paragraph on the Bachelor in History and Preservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage.
Master of Science Degree (Laurea specialistica) in Architecture (Environment and Land)(Mondovì)
This Master of Science Degree creates planners with a deep knowledge of the tools to represent theoretical and methodological aspects of architecture, technological and structural aspects of contructions. A graduate can face with great competence functional, managing, economic and technical aspects related to environmental problems. Master of Science Degree in Land, Town and Environment Planning The aim of this course is to give precise skills in parks and historical gardens planning, finalized to the definition of correct new interventions, to maintenance and to restoration.

FAQ

With a Bachelor in Architecture and Design is it possible to work as an interior designer? Yes, it is marginally possible but the skills of a graduate are oriented to the construction field: there are just a few topics dedicated to interior design.

COUR S E OF F E R INGS
FINE ARTS (FNAR)
112 Two-dimensional Design
113 Drawing I
114 Painting I
115 Photography I
118 Printmaking I
119 Watercolor Techniques
120 Ceramics: Handbuilding
121 Ceramics:Wheelthrowing
123 Metalwork and Jewelry I
124 Sculpture I
126 Metal Sculpture andWelding
129 Printmaking: Monotypes
132 Visual Communication I
170 Three-dimensional Design
190 Color Theory
199 Art and Visual Culture
200 Art History: Prehistoric to Renaissance
201 Art History: Renaissance to Modern
202 Modern Art
203 Chicago: The Face of the City
207 Women, Art, and Society
213 Drawing II
214 Painting II
215 Photography II
216 Color Darkroom Photography
218 Printmaking II
219 Digital Photography
221 Ceramic Science
222 Ceramics Studio
223 Metalwork and Jewelry II
224 Sculpture andWelding II
232 Visual Communication II
233 Computer Graphics I
235 Figure Studio
304 Paris in the Nineteenth Century
305 American Art to 1945
306 Contemporary Art
311 StudioWorkshop for Advanced Drawing and Painting
316 View Camera and Studio Photography
322 Ceramics Seminar
332 Visual Communication III
333 Computer Graphics II
336 Introduction to Greek Art
337 Introduction to Etruscan and Roman Art
338 Medieval Art
342 Art in Rome
343 Baroque Art
344 Early Italian Renaissance Art
345 Italian High Renaissance and Mannerist Art
351 Pre-Columbian Art of Middle and South America
352 Mexican Art and Archaeology I
353 Mexican Art and Archaeology II
355 Art of Africa
357 Art of Indian Asia
358 Chinese Art and Culture
359 Japanese Art and Culture
365 History of Photography
367 History of Architecture
368 Gallery Internship
369 PicturingWomen in Renaissance and Baroque Art
380 Internship I
381 Internship II
383 Design for theWeb
390 Seminar in Art and Ideas
391 Senior Thesis I
392 Senior Thesis II
393 Topics in Studio Art
394 Topics in Art History
398 Senior Exhibition Preparation
399 Independent Study

Interior Design

Interior Design Professor Nancy VanOver maintains her own design clientele and holds professional memberships with design organizations such as the National Council for Interior Design Qualification, American Society of Interior Designers and the International Interior Design Association. She attends yearly conferences and continuing education programs and, as a result, will pass on to you the latest trends, codes, standards, and research.

You’ll take a variety of courses, including principles of both residential and commercial design, the history of architecture and interiors, and business practices. You’ll learn technical drafting and rendering skills and will develop a working knowledge of building construction and sustainable design and aging in place. You’ll take the best of what you design in each course and add to your portfolio, which you’ll use in your job search.

There are several opportunities that will help prepare you for a career in interior design. During your internship between your junior and senior years, you might follow in the footsteps of former Adrian students who spent the summer at American International University in London. In addition, the department invites designers, building inspectors, manufacturer representatives, and architects as guest speakers to help provide you with an inside perspective on the industry. Many trips are also planned to Chicago to visit the Merchandise Mart, the Art institute of Chicago, attend kitchen and bath shows, take architectural walking tours, or attend trade shows and career days. By the end of the program, the department will have prepared you to successfully design and implement interior environments that meet the needs of your clients. Recent graduates are employed as showroom consultants, buyers, designers, kitchen and bath planners, commercial designers, and residential designers.

Required Courses:

Year 1
ARCD – 101 History of Architecture 1
ARCD – 102 History of Architecture 2
ARCD – 110 Architecture Studio 1
ARCD – 120 Architecture Studio 2
ARCD – 121 Architectonics 1
ARCD – 122 Architectonics 2
Year 2
ARCD – 203 History of Architecture 3
ARCD – 204 History of Architecture 4
ARCD – 230 Architecture Studio 3
ARCD – 240 Architecture Studio 4
ARCD – 290 Intro to Structural Engineering
ARCD – 250 CAD 1
Year 3
ARCD – 350 Architecture Studio 5
ARCD – 330 Design in Crossroads International
ARCD – 310 Intro to Construction Materials
ARCD – 390 International Projects
ARCD – 300 CAD 1
Year 4
ARCD – 400 Community Design Outreach
ARCD – 410 Portfolio Lab
ARCD – 420 Practicum/Internship
ARCD – 320 Intro to Landscape Design
ARCD – 390 Special Topics
Electives
ARCD ? 200 Sustainable Design
ARCD – 290 Special Topics
ARCD – 390 Sacred Spaces

Note: Additional courses will be added as they develop.

DMT 110 Design Concepts
DMT 120 Design Studio I
AMS 202 CADD for Architecture
DMT 151 Intro to History of Architecture & Interior Design I
DMT 152 Intro to History of Architecture & Interior Design II
DMT 201 Design Studio II
DMT 221 Creative Problem Solving in Design and Merchandising
DMT 223 Textiles
DMT 243 Materials and Finishes for Interiors
DMT 300 Design Studio III
DMT 301 Design Studio IV
DMT 302 Design Studio V
DMT 303 Lighting Design Seminar
CFS 310 Management of Family Resources
CFS 311 Family Relations
DMT 321 Professional Ethics & Issues Seminar
DMT 322 Merchandising I for DMT
DMT 401 Design Studio VI
DMT 402 Desing Studio VII
DMT 403 Business Principles and Practices for ID
CFS 410 Internship
DMT 421 Portfolio Design
DMT 422 Textile Design and Performance
MKT 320 Basic Marketing Concepts
Selected Elective approved by advisor

Interior Design Electives
DMT 346 Architecture & Culture
CFS 411 Special Topics in CFS
DMT 423 Human Environment Study Tour
DMT 424 Historic Textiles
DMT 426 Fashion Desiign Market Trends
DMT 444 Environmental Design
DMT 446 Restoration of Historic Interiors
DMT 448 Interior Illustration
AMS 378 Architectural/Professional Presentation

The Bachelor of Science with a major in Interior Design is structured to prepare students for entry into the interior design profession in a variety of positions, both contract and residential.

For incoming freshmen and transfer students beginning Fall 2008, the following courses will be required of all Interior Design majors:

Required Courses
ART 105. Principles of Design I
ART 206. Drawing I
ART 120. Human Dimensions in Art
HFS 261. Introduction to Furniture
HFS 363. Furniture Retailing
INT 113. Design Fundamentals
INT 114. Introduction to Interior Design
INT 216. Design Drawing
INT 217. Visual Presentation of Interiors
INT 227. CAD
INT 230. Space Planning
INT 271. History of Architecture, Interiors and Furnishings Prior to 1830
INT 272. History of Architecture, Interiors and Furnishings Since 1830
INT 315. Textiles
INT 317. Lighting Design and Color
INT 319. Building Systems and Materials for Interior Design
INT 320. Materials and Calculations
INT 328. Contract I
INT 330. Residential Interiors
INT 331. Global Housing
INT 337. Architectural Detailing
INT 340. Portfolio Development
INT 398. Professional Practices
INT 428. Contract II
INT 499. Senior Seminar – Interior Design

Required Courses
INT 114. Interior Design Principles and Practices
INT 216. Design Drawing
INT 227. Computer-Aided Darfting for Interior Design
INT 271. History of Architecture, Interiors and Furnishings Prior to 1830
INT 272. History of Architecture, Interiors and Furnishings Since 1830
INT 315. Textiles

Industrial Design Course of Study ::

First Semester
Shop Orientation
2-D Design Principles
Design Drawing I
Introduction to Computer Apps I
Survey of Art History I
Composition & Rhetoric
First Year Seminar
Second Semester
Drawing/Drafting
Introduction to Computer Apps II
Survey of Art History II
Natural Sciences Core
Social Sciences Core

Third Semester
Industrial Design Studio I
Design Drawing III
Materials & Manufacturing I
SolidWorks I
Natural Sciences Core
Fourth Semester
Industrial Design Studio II
Design Drawing IV
Materials & Manufacturing II
Form•Z A
Internship

Fifth Semester
Industrial Design Studio III
Human Factors
CAD II
Professional Seminar III
Technical Elective
Social Science I
Sixth Semester
Industrial Design Studio IV
SolidWorks II
Alias A
Exhibition Design
Humanities Core Elective
Intermediate Algebra

Seventh Semester
Industrial Design Studio V
Alias B
Special Projects
Social Sciences Core Elective
Capstone Seminar
Eighth Semester
Industrial Design Studio VI
Video
History of Architecture & Urbanism
Liberal Arts Free Elective(s)

Suggested Electives

Students are encouraged to use their elective credits to explore other design areas beyond their own major.