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ID132 Foundations of Color Design
Credits: 2(2,0,2) Prerequisites: None
This is a basic course in the fundamentals of color and design. The course introduces students to
aesthetic, historical, perceptual, scientific, and psychological aspects of color, light and their
implications for interior design. Students explore color through experimentation, observation, and
evaluation. Contemporary design projects are analyzed for their use of color theory.

ID133 Interior Design Visual Presentation I
Credits: 2 (1,0,3) Prerequisites: ID131
This course is an introduction to different techniques, materials and processes used in painting.
Color rendering techniques are introduced as students continue to build on skills acquired in
Drawing. Traditional painting methods and contemporary approaches are explored. Media are
introduced in this course: pencil, color pencil, magic marker, pen, watercolor, gouache, chalk
pastel, and acrylic paints, for use in later ID courses.

ID212 Interior Design Studio II
Credits: 3(1,0,5) Prerequisites: ID111, ARCH112 and ARCH140
Students are introduced to programming, specifications, code requirements, and the use of
systems furniture as they relate to planning small commercial facilities. Emphasis is on the design
process using space planning concepts and methods, problem solving, and application of design
theory specific to commercial office environments.

ID213 Interior Design Studio III
Credits: 3(1,0,5) Prerequisites: ID212 and MMGD231
This course provides practice in the solution of functional and aesthetic problems of interior
environments relevant to office buildings. With the focus on the problem-solving discipline of the
design process and its application to public spaces, students work conceptually to achieve interior
design goals and present their projects professionally.

ID222 History Style of Furniture
Credits: 2(2,0,0) Prerequisites: ID121
The course surveys the main characteristics and motifs of Western and Eastern furniture from
antiquity to the 19th Century. Students examine how people, social conditions, and technology
influenced furniture design in each period. Class format includes illustrated lectures and
discussions.

ID223 History of Architecture and Interior Design
Credits: 2(2,0,0) Prerequisites: ID222
This course examines interior architecture, decoration and decorative arts within their cultural,
technological, social, economic and political contexts, from ancient times through to the
eighteenth century. Emphasis is placed on European, American and Islamic countries. Architecture
and interior design of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are discussed against a background
of interior architecture, furniture, and design philosophies.

ID234 Interior Design Visual Presentation II
Credits: 2(1,0,3) Prerequisites: ID132 and MMGD231
This course introduces students to Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw programs to present and
color projects. Using these highly creative tools for organizing and presenting digital images,
students learn to capture and digitally manipulate images and text expressively in both digital and
printed presentation documents and materials.

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