Interior Design

Do you find yourself noticing the layout and design finishes in a room? Are you passionate about creating spaces that reflect how they will be used and the people using them? If this sounds like you, then the interior design program will teach you how to turn your love for design into a career!

Allan Hancock College’s interior design program gives students the technical knowledge and skills they need to transform the interiors of spaces. Courses will teach students the fundamental relationship between interior design, architecture, and decorative arts.  Students will also compare different types of design elements, such as window treatments, wall coverings, floor coverings, paint, lighting, and much more. Using this knowledge, they will prepare drawings and complete a student portfolio.

The interior design program prepares students for a variety of careers in the interior-design industry, such as store buyer or manager, interior consultant, interior promotion, and sales representatives. Students may also transfer to a four-year university to complete a bachelor’s degree in interior design or other design-related fields. 

This program will help you to:

• integrate fashion principles with respect to industry changes and marketing strategies and present project
• analyze textile characteristics for sensory appeal and present project
• create a portfolio and project using interior design elements and principles by selecting color and furniture combinations and placements which achieve the desired interior character and effect
• compare and contrast various types of window treatments, wall coverings, soft and hard surface floor coverings, paints, glass, metals, plastics, woods, fabrics, and lighting fixtures

Degrees and Certificates Offered

Each program has unique requirements. The order in which you take courses may affect your completion time. Visit the links below to view the program requirements and a general semester-by-semester course schedule.

Associate in Science- Family and Consumer Science: Interior Design Merchandising

Associate in Science- Family and Consumer Science General

Certificate of Achievement- Family and Consumer Science: Interior Design Merchandising

To view all available degrees and certificates visit the Allan Hancock College course catalog.

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• Business
  
• Human Services
• Speech Communication

 

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