Interior Design - BA (hons) Degree in Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

Interior Design - BA (hons) Degree in Cardiff Metropolitan University

Course Overview

Design has a profound impact on society, and effective interior design has the potential to change the way we live our lives for the better.

At Cardiff Met, your studies will focus upon objects and their relationships with space, as well as the ways in which they create user experience.

By studying our BA Interior Design degree, you will learn the importance of sustainability and environmentally responsible design; tradition and heritage of place; aesthetics and materiality; as well as the impact design has on human experience and well-being.

Our undergraduate Interior Design course will equip you with a critical and contemporary understanding of interior space. These skills will allow you to remodel the past, create the present and inform the future.

You will undertake collaborative projects spanning a range of contexts, countries and cultures. You will explore and employ a range of technologies, critically engage with live briefs and real-world concerns as you develop your own design identity.

This will enable you to compose, visualise and simulate unique and individual environments, preparing you for your future.

​Course Content​

​Your core subjects of creative thinking, drawing, model making, studio design techniques and CAD technologies will give you a solid basis in design fundamentals. From here you’ll explore different techniques, ideas and approaches in a variety of areas, including:

• Remodelling; preserving; restoring; renovating existing sites.
• Create user-centred environments (live; work; rest; play).
• Analyse Client Culture (design language; mood; atmosphere).
• Formulate design strategies
• Creating appropriate places for experience.
• Produce Tectonic Detail information
• Sketching and scaled detail design drawing;
• Model-making and 3D visualising (CAD; Virtual Reality; Perceptual Experience Lab).
• Developing relationships with clients, constructors and other specialists
• Legal and Regulatory Frameworks

You’ll learn about the creative, scientific and functional considerations you need to take into account when you’re dealing with space. And you’ll become familiar with technical, legal and regulatory constraints facing interior designers.

There are many options open to you – from studying abroad to research opportunities and industry experience – so you can get to know different client types and explore the countless career paths you can take as an interior design graduate.

Employability & Careers​

Whilst your learning is designed to develop you into a rounded and capable interior designer/artist and intellectual, your curriculum is similarly structured with your potential in mind. As such, the emphasis that will have been placed upon your work ethic, both creatively and academically, is matched with significant focus on real world experience; from building contacts and undertaking placements to live briefs and, should you choose so, support in forming your own business.

You will have the opportunity to engage with clients and in your final year and have the option of devising a detailed business plan should that be appropriate, rather than submit a dissertation.

Graduates from the programme are well placed to join interior design companies, work as independent designers. Some take further training, for example a PGCE. Some elect to take their studies further by studying at CSAD for a Master's level qualification and there are opportunities to take this further still, through a Professional Doctorate in Design or a PhD.

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Entrance Exams in UK	TOEFL: 88 | IELTS: 6.5 | PTE: 59 | GMAT: 590
Work and Study in UK	Permitted for 20 hours/week with a valid study permit.
Post Study Work Permit in UK	2 Year after graduation depending on the course.
Cost of Student Visa in UK	£348
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