INTD 50A INTERIOR DESIGN I
3 units • LG-C/NC • Three hours lecture
This course for consumer and pre-professionals alike includes studying the fundamental principles of making a home comfortable, attractive, and appropriate for its inhabitants. Students will work with floor plans, color, and design principles. Furniture and accessory selection, furniture arrangement and surfaces will be studied.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 50B INTERIOR DESIGN II
3 units • LG-C/NC • Three hours lecture
This course is organized as though students are associates in a large design firm. Each student will be involved in a minimum of three projects. Team participation and universal design are important elements. Basic drafting skills are needed. Projects involve developing practical, creative concepts and specifying materials and components.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 51 HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS
3 units• LG-C/NC • Three hours lecture
This class includes construction, architectural styles, alternative housing, location and site, and landscaping as well as kitchen, bathroom and storage planning, traffic patterns and energy conservation.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 52 FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHTING
2 units • LG-C/NC • Two hours lecture
Students will explore residential, commercial and institutional lighting systems including concepts of psychology, perception, color, lamps, luminaries and design. New technologies and energy conservation will be emphasized.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 53 COLOR
1.5 units • LG-C/NC • One and one-half hours lecture
This course explores color and color theory, emphasizing problem solving to achieve increased satisfaction in living and working with color. The course stresses skills to enable students to be successful with the color selection of the NCIDQ examination.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 54 BASIC MATERIALS AND FINISHES
1.5 units • LG-C/NC • One and one-half hours lecture
This course relates the nature of design to basic building materials and finishes of wood, masonry, ceramics, glass, metals, and plastics. Considerations of these materials includes appropriateness, quality, aesthetics, and integrity.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 55 BUSINESS PRACTICES
1.5 units • LG-C/NC • One and one-half hours lecture
This course covers essential business procedures for interior designers, including contracts, charges, and business forms.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 56 SURVEY OF FURNITURE
3 units • LG-C/NC • Three hours lecture
This course surveys period furniture styles from Egyptian to 20th Century Victorian. Also included are architecture, textiles, motifs, and the decorative arts as they complement each furniture period.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 57 CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE AND DESIGN
3 units • LG-C/NC • Three hours lecture
This course traces the development and interrelationship of 20th Century furniture, design and architecture from the English Arts and Crafts movement through Post-modernism.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 58 FOUR CENTURIES OF AMERICAN FURNITURE
3 units • LG-C/NC • Three hours lecture
This course surveys distinctive and new forms, characteristics of design, and techniques of decoration. Beginning with Colonial America, the class will explore regional traits, cabinetmakers, signatures, and social influences.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 60 INTERIOR DESIGN WORKSHOP
1 unit • C/NC • Total hours: Eight hours lecture; twenty-four hours lab
This course is structured to give design students practical experience in measuring, estimating and specifying. Topics covered include paint, wallpaper, floor coverings, walls and windows. Finishing details and quality are emphasized.
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 93 INTERIOR DESIGN PRACTICUM
1 unit • LG-C/NC • One hour lecture
This culminating course prepares students to work with professionals in interior design-related businesses and to prepare for the NCIDQ exam. Students will acquire and perfect skills, including effective office communications, informational/professional log keeping, and attaining employment.
Corequisite: COOP 91.23 (1 unit)
Advisories: Eligibility for ENGL 111 and 112 or ENSL 10 and 55
Credit transferable: CSU
INTD 200 INTERIOR DESIGN UPDATE
.5 unit • C/NC • Total hours: Eight hours lecture
Interior design specialists present current topics of importance. May be taken four times for a maximum of two units provided there is a change in content for each lecture series.