DS220 Interior Architecture & Design I (The Design of Built Form)
This course serves as the students' introduction into the design of built form. Content for the course includes a discussion into the nature of human experience and perception of built form as the basis for the design of built form, an examination of the process of design and an introduction into the "vocabulary" of form. Students are called upon to design a series of small-scale projects.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS221 Interior Architecture & Design II (Residential Design )
The focus of this course is on the design of the home. Students are presented with a broad survey of house design through a cultural/historical perspective that incorporates the study of numerous contemporary examples.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: DS220 DS222 Interior Computer Drawing I
This course will introduce students to the role of the computer in the Interior Architecture & Design field and in today's professional office. The students' introduction to computer drawing is intended to parallel their instruction in the more traditional forms of visual communication i.e., drawing and sketching. Students will be instructed in the software programs that are currently dominant in this profession.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS223 Interior Computer Drawing II
This course is a continuation of the Interior Computer Drawing I course. Students will further develop their understanding and ability relative to the programs introduced in the earlier course and, simultaneously, gain familiarity with additional software programs.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: DS222 DS224 Architectural Drawing
This course serves as a comprehensive introduction into the full, broad range of drawing types that have been traditionally employed by designers of the built environment. The teaching of traditional drawing skills is intended to compliment the students' computer drawing instruction. Students will learn to execute a range of drawing types and to explore a variety of different media.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS225 Interior Architecture & Design Systems I
The systems I course presents students with an understanding of the building as a series of fully integrated, interlocking systems. This broad overview is directed at the student gaining a fundamental awareness of these systems from which to then build a more thorough working understanding.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS230 Computer Studio I
This course introduces students to the general structure of the Macintosh computing platform and engages them in an intensive tool- and function-based experience with QuarkXpress and Adobe Illustrator. Digital pre-press fundamentals are also introduced.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS231 Interior Architecture & Design III (Commercial/Retail Design)
This course serves as an introduction to design within the scope of the commercial/retail industry. Students study and learn from published material and visit local examples of the particular type of space that they will be called on to design.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS322 Architectural Resource Lab
The Architectural Resource Lab is designed to give students the opportunity to attend to the comprehensive nature of a real-life design scenario within the scope of small-scale projects within a controlled setting. The projects involve the redesign or further design of existing spaces through the study, exploration, design, and actual implementation of the design process. The course gives students first-hand exposure to the potential for space to become transformed through the design.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS323 Interior Computer Drawing III
Students are called upon to further develop their understanding and ability relative to the programs introduced in Interior Computer Drawing I and II, and simultaneously to gain familiarity with additional software programs which allow students to develop and produce advanced and complex projects.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: DS222 DS325 Interior Architecture & Design Systems II
The Systems II course is set up around the design of a small-scale project that students take from initial conception (sketching and modeling) through actual construction. Prior to construction, students document their designs through the production of a set of construction drawings.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS420 Interior Architecture & Design Thesis
The Interior Architecture & Design Thesis demands a comprehensive effort of a self-directed course of study. This course permits each student to choose a project specific to his/her area of interest. The selected project is intended to serve as the culmination of the graduating senior's three-year Interior Architecture & Design studio experience.
Credits: 6.0
Prerequisites: DS420 DS421 Thesis Presentation
Thesis Presentation provides the student with an opportunity to develop the design of the public exhibition and presentation of his/her thesis project in the final model and drawing form, as well as, full-scale mock-ups.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: DS420 DS423 Portfolio Preparation
This course gives each student an opportunity to assemble his/her best work from school and professional practice into a compact, presentable format for review by prospective employers or graduate school admission committees.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS425 Business Principles & Practices of Interior Architecture & Design
This course is intended to offer students a broad overview of the business principles and practices that characterize the interior architecture & design profession. Students are instructed in the various forms of design practice, how to establish one's own design practice, and the various stages of a job.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None DS484 Internship
The internship is an off-campus learning experience which provides students an opportunity to apply knowledge, theories, skills, and techniques learned in the classroom to the working environment.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: None | 
