

Mission
The IDES program is designed to offer students the opportunity to become creative Interior designers by providing them with the best academic experiences. The FAD department provides the best expertise in teaching and learning, with continuous updates in Interior and architecture software and technological skills and innovation in the processes of creativity needed for students to succeed as individuals and as contributors in the betterment of their own lives and the surrounding communities, a generation of innovative and human-centered designers capable of creating private and public interiors that are functional, safe and healthy.
Objectives
- Provide students with a spectrum of design courses, from studio to technical and drafting software, from history and theory classes to practical and hands on projects.
- Prepare students to thinking, to plan and to execute their ideas with proper skills and technological faculties to succeed in the workplace.
- Provide students with the proper tools to deal with the client, to develop a portfolio and a CV that compete in the marketplace.
- Provide students with a solid theoretical background and strong practical tools of design that will give them ample command of the design field.
- Prepare students to various working platforms and diverse environments through personal communication skills.
- Prepare students to be ethical designers and social individuals who accept diversity and embrace multiplicity.
- Emphasize the theoretical and practical approaches in design production
- Prepare students to become effective visual creators, ethical and social problem solvers
- Provide students with the conventional design tools, basic standards and materials research for a sustainable practice and environmentally valid projects quality of interior spaces.
Program Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the BA program in Interior Design, graduates will:
- Display capabilities in designing meaningful interior spaces that can communicate with a specific client or target group.
Display competency in software and technical skills pertinent to interior design drafting and rendering. - Acquire and articulate Interior design lexicon and terminologies used to communicate with other designers, engineers or contractor on the construction site.
Implement and produce interior spaces designed from specified themes and valid concepts. - Demonstrate the ability to design spaces in conjunction with the end users.
- Apply methodological technics of design and design-thinking strategies to design interior spaces that are functional, meaningful and safe for the end user.
- Apply the elements and principles of design to produce functional interior spaces using compositions of valid materials, shapes and elements.
- Acquire and articulate conceptual thinking methodologies and prove the ability to scrutinize, synthesize, and construct successful solutions.
- Demonstrate awareness and involvement in the sociopolitical, cultural and ethical issues.
- Demonstrate the ability to research and access information through conventional and/or database archives, and be able to filter and use this information in specific design jobs.
- Understand the relationship of Interior Design to other adjacent fields of specialization like Architecture, Engineering and Construction.
credits
courses
semesters
years
course code | course title | credits | prerequisites |
first year / sophomore (33 credits) | |||
fall (15 credits) | |||
ARTS200 | Foundation Drawing I | 3 | ENGL051 |
ARTS210 | Color Theory – Painting | 3 | ENGL051 |
ARTS260 | Design Fundamentals – 2D | 3 | ENGL051 |
CSCI200 | Introduction to Computers | 3 | ENGL051 |
ENGL201 | Composition and Research Skills | 3 | ENGL151 |
spring (18 credits) | |||
IDES300 | Architectural Drawing | 3 | ARTS200 – ARTS210 – ENGL051 |
ARTS320 | Rendering and Perspective Techniques | 3 | ARTS210 – ENGL051 – ARTS200 |
ARTS270 | Design Fundamentals – 3D | 3 | ARTS200 – ENGL051 – ENGL101 – ARTS260 |
ARTS250 | Foundation Drawing II | 3 | ENGL051 – ARTS200 |
ENGL251 | Communication Skills | 3 | ENGL201 |
COMM285 | Theories of Perception | 3 | ENGL151 |
second year / junior (35 credits) | |||
fall (16 credits) | |||
IDES345 | Interior Design Studio I | 4 | IDES300 – ARTS320 |
IDES330 | CAD I | 3 | IDES300 – CSCI200 |
IDES310 | Materials – Techniques and Building Codes | 3 | IDES300 – ENGL151 |
ARTS215 | History of Arts | 3 | ENGL151 |
ARAB200 | Arabic Language and Literature | 3 | |
spring (19 credits) | |||
IDES394 | Interior Design Studio II | 4 | IDES310 – IDES330 – COMM285 – IDES345 |
IDES380 | CAD II | 3 | IDES330 |
IDES360 | Lighting and HVAC | 3 | IDES330 – IDES345 |
IDES400 | Architectural Modeling | 3 | IDES345 – ARTS270 |
IDES315 | History of Architecture | 3 | ARTS215 |
General Education Elective | 3 |
third year / senior (31 credits) | |||
fall (19 credits) | |||
IDES445 | Interior Design Studio III | 4 | IDES360 – IDES380 – IDES394 |
IDES430 | Computer Rendering for IDES | 3 | IDES380 |
IDES420 | Landscape Design | 3 | ARTS250 – IDES394 |
IDES370 | Furniture History and Design | 3 | ARTS215 – IDES315 |
CULT200 | Introduction to Arab – Islamic Civilization | 3 | |
Major Elective | 3 | ||
spring (12 credits) | |||
IDES495 | Interior Design Senior Project | 4 | IDES430 – IDES445 |
IDES480 | Professional Practice | 2 | IDES445 |
ARTS350 | Photography | 3 | ENGL151 |
Elective | 3 |
major elective courses | |||
ARTS300 | Painting | 3 | ARTS210 – ARTS200 – ENGL051 – ENGL101 |
COMM200 | Introduction to Communication Studies | 3 | ENGL101 |
COMM205 | Introduction to Western Civilization | 3 | ENGL151 – COMM200 |
COMM220 | Rhetoric & Persuasion | 3 | ENGL151 |
COMM225 | Workshop | 3 | ENGL101 |
COMM255 | Theories of Mass Media | 3 | COMM200 |
COMM265 | Performance Theory & Practice | 3 | COMM200 |
IDES355 | Sketching for Interior Design | 3 | |
IDES395 | Autodesk Maya & Adobe Photoshop | 3 | IDES330 |
IDES410 | History of Architects | 3 | |
IDES320 | Placemaking | 3 | IDES345 – IDES330 |
code | title | crds |
first year / sophomore (33 credits) | ||
fall (15 credits) | ||
ARTS200 | Foundation Drawing I | 3 |
ARTS210 | Color Theory – Painting | 3 |
ARTS260 | Design Fundamentals – 2D | 3 |
CSCI200 | Introduction to Computers | 3 |
ENGL201 | Composition and Research Skills | 3 |
spring (18 credits) | ||
IDES300 | Architectural Drawing | 3 |
ARTS320 | Rendering and Perspective Techniques | 3 |
ARTS270 | Design Fundamentals – 3D | 3 |
ARTS250 | Foundation Drawing II | 3 |
ENGL251 | Communication Skills | 3 |
COMM285 | Theories of Perception | 3 |
second year / junior (35 credits) | ||
fall (16 credits) | ||
IDES345 | Interior Design Studio I | 4 |
IDES330 | CAD I | 3 |
IDES310 | Materials – Techniques and Building Codes | 3 |
ARTS215 | History of Arts | 3 |
ARAB200 | Arabic Language and Literature | 3 |
spring (19 credits) | ||
IDES394 | Interior Design Studio II | 4 |
IDES380 | CAD II | 3 |
IDES360 | Lighting and HVAC | 3 |
IDES400 | Architectural Modeling | 3 |
IDES315 | History of Architecture | 3 |
General Education Elective | 3 |
third year / senior (31 credits) | |||
fall (19 credits) | |||
IDES445 | Interior Design Studio III | 4 | IDES360 – IDES380 – IDES394 |
IDES430 | Computer Rendering for IDES | 3 | IDES380 |
IDES420 | Landscape Design | 3 | ARTS250 – IDES394 |
IDES370 | Furniture History and Design | 3 | ARTS215 – IDES315 |
CULT200 | Introduction to Arab – Islamic Civilization | 3 | |
Major Elective | 3 | ||
spring (12 credits) | |||
IDES495 | Interior Design Senior Project | 4 | IDES430 – IDES445 |
IDES480 | Professional Practice | 2 | IDES445 |
ARTS350 | Photography | 3 | ENGL151 |
Elective | 3 |
major elective courses | ||
ARTS300 | Painting | 3 |
COMM200 | Introduction to Communication Studies | 3 |
COMM205 | Introduction to Western Civilization | 3 |
COMM220 | Rhetoric & Persuasion | 3 |
COMM225 | Workshop | 3 |
COMM255 | Theories of Mass Media | 3 |
COMM265 | Performance Theory & Practice | 3 |
IDES355 | Sketching for Interior Design | 3 |
IDES395 | Autodesk Maya & Adobe Photoshop | 3 |
IDES410 | History of Architects | 3 |
IDES320 | Placemaking | 3 |
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