喬治亞學(xué)院

This program specializes in creating interior environments in the context of professional interior design standards and practice. The curriculum emphasizes space planning and management, design process, research methodologies, socially responsible design, building systems, technological applications, contract documentation, and interior design presentation. Sustainable practices, entrepreneurship models, and regulatory codes are integrated throughout the curriculum. The curriculum is designed to meet current Council for Interior Design Accreditation’s (CIDA) standards of delivery and content. Our program offers a uniquely collaborative learning experience which facilitates a hands-on model incorporating creative development, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and teaming protocols, providing our graduates with exceptional interior design knowledge and skills.

Program Learning Outcomes: The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• solve design problems using analysis, synthesis, and creativity;
• analyze the universality of design principles and elements;
• produce sophisticated designs with character and quality of space;
• integrate the principles of sustainability in creative design concepts;
• assess the merits of a freethinking, random idea creative process in creating, and delivering an inventive solution;
• apply the principles and elements of design, line, rhythm, shape, colour, texture, proportion, etc., in the development of their work;
• articulate the characteristics of an aesthetically pleasing built environment;
• apply the criteria for method and material selection in design projects;
• select appropriate materials and processes to achieve the technical and visual functionality of their designs;
• explain the relationship between aesthetic and utilitarian dimensions (form and function) of design solutions;
• analyze the complexity of forces – economic, political, sociological, and technological – which influence the design of the physical environment;
• explain the relationship between human behaviour and the built environment and the implications in preparing design solutions;
• assess the implications for interior design presented by key developments in current and emerging materials, media and technologies, and in interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary practice in design;
• examine the technical issues, which challenge interior design practice;
• analyze the role of technology in the built environment through research, analysis, and creative development;
• employ appropriate conventions of measurement, scale, site measuring, drafting, and volumetric manipulation through modeling;
• employ new methods, materials, processes, and technologies appropriate to interior design and explain their cultural, social, and environmental implications;
• interpret, develop, and communicate ideas in the history, theory, and practice of design.

Career Opportunities: There are numerous avenues to pursue for productive and creative interior design careers. These pathways include corporate/office design, residential and condominium design, hospitality design, retail design, exhibition design, health care design, civic design, and historic preservation. Many graduates enter directly into positions within established interior design and architectural firms. Career opportunities also include interior design positions in government, facilities space planning, and real estate development.

Practical Experience: All co-operative education programs at Georgian contain mandatory work term experiences aligned with program learning outcomes.

Work Integrated Learning: 1 Co-op Work Term