Students majoring in interior design at Park University combine the common body of knowledge in interior design with the intellectual development found in Park’s liberal arts education. Our sequence of interior design studios, communications and lecture courses provide the practical content integral to the profession. Park University education, combined with work experience, enables students to sit for the NCIDQ examination and to become registered interior designers. Interior designs are created in response to the building shell, and acknowledge the physical location and social context of projects. The interior design process includes research, analysis and integration in the creative process.

Interior Design Major Course Requirements- 69 Credit Hours

Freshman Core: 15 credit hours

Interior Design: 54 credit hours
AR 290 Materials and Resources
AR 292A Interior Design Studio I: Visual Communications
AR 292B Interior Design Studio I: Introduction to Interior Design
AR 296 Textiles
AR 298 History of the Designed Environment I: Antiquity to Mid-19th Century
AR 299A Interior Design Studio II: Fundamentals
AR 299B Interior Design Studio II: Drawing Systems I
AR 390 History of the Designed Environment II: Mid-19th Century to the Present
AR 392 Human Factors
AR 393 Lighting Fundamentals
AR 396A Interior Design Studio III: Drawing Systems II
AR 396B Interior Design Studio III: Furniture Design
AR 397A Interior Design Studio IV: Visual Communications II
AR 397B Interior Design Studio IV: Office Design
AR 491 Professional Practice
AR 495 Building Construction Systems
AR 498 Senior Seminar I: Thesis
AR 499 Senior Seminar II: Project and Portfolio

Major requirements for a degree program are established by the University catalog at the time the major is declared.

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