2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Major in Interior Design (BA/BS)

Our program provides resilient, sustainable, and adaptive design solutions that enhance the function, safety, and aesthetic quality of indoor environments as a professional interior designer. Our bachelor’s degree in interior design will prepare you for an exciting and challenging career in a variety of settings like commercial offices, health care facilities, hospitality (restaurant and hotel), store planning, and much more.

As one of our students, you’ll develop strong visual design skills, which you’ll use to produce the drawings, structural models, computer simulations, or full-scale prototypes you’ll work on as a professional. You’ll also gain the verbal skills you’ll need when working with clients, contractors, architects, and others involved in design projects. Our curriculum focuses on global diversity and universal design, or design that is accessible to all people, as well as creating sustainable interiors. You’ll apply these lessons to professional experiences because we are one of the few programs in the country that will pair you with real-world clients.

82 credits

Requirements List

AHS 100Introduction to Art

3

IDES 100Introduction to Interior Design

3

IDES 101Rapid Visualization

3

IDES 113Historical & Theoretical Studies

3

IDES 116Basic Design 1

3

IDES 117Basic Design 2

3

IDES 120Design Technology 1

3

IDES 200Interior Design Professional Practice

3

IDES 215Interior Materials & Finishes

3

IDES 221Design Technology 2

3

IDES 222Interior Design Studio 1

3

IDES 224Interior Design Studio 2

3

IDES 228Design Technology 3

3

IDES 261Universal Design

3

IDES 312Sustainable Interiors

3

IDES 314Lighting Technology 1

3

IDES 315Lighting Technology 2

3

IDES 324Interior Design Studio 3

3

IDES 325Application of Interior Systems

3

IDES 327Project Management & Documentation for Interior Designers

3

IDES 334Interior Design Studio 4

3

IDES 362Interior Construction, Building Systems, and Regulations

3

IDES 369Interior Design Internship

3-9

IDES 400National Council for the Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) Exam Preparation

1

IDES 420Senior Capstone 1: Interior Design Programming and Research

3

IDES 421Furniture Design

3

IDES 424Interior Design Studio 5

3

IDES 484Senior Capstone 2 Interior Design Studio 6

3

Entry-level interior design students must complete a supplemental application process and secure admission into the Pre-Interior Design Program. For more information about the supplemental admission process, please log on to bsu.edu/admissions. Interior Design students are placed in the Pre-Interior Design program for the first year. Approval to pursue the Interior Design major requires the submission of a portfolio during spring semester of freshman year.

Students are required to complete an exit survey prior to graduation. Students may not progress through the program until they satisfy the requirements.

Total Credit Hours: 82