📚College Mandatory Requirements (18 Credit Hours)

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 3 | Practical: 0

This course includes the study of ancient architecture beginning from Egyptian civilization, Mesopotamia, Greek civilization through Roman and Byzantine periods. It includes identifying the various influences that affected the development of design and architectural thought of these civilizations and the ability to critique and analyze them.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 3 | Practical: 0

This course includes the study of the philosophy, origins, emergence and development of Islamic art and architecture, its most important characteristics and principles upon which it is based, and following the most prominent artistic styles through successive eras and various regions. It includes implementing some practical applications that include the art of decoration, Arabic calligraphy, and some architectural elements through studying these styles.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes the study of design elements and principles with emphasis on the structural concept of two-dimensional design as well as studying the principles of abstract composition and their distribution on spatial surfaces to organize them visually for students, developing creative and expressive abilities.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes the study of three-dimensional design elements and principles, understanding the relationship between mass and space, shaping and linking them with architectural and design works, by training students to analyze work elements, study their relationships with each other, and compose them in design.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes learning about different drawing tools and materials and methods of using them, and implementing manual exercises for drawing nature and its design and architectural elements, as well as drawing different scenes of models showing continuous movement derived from aspects of daily life in cities, villages, and others.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes introducing students to the concept of beauty, its nature and philosophy by following the most prominent philosophical schools in this field (aesthetics), as well as addressing the most important artistic concepts and studying the most important opinions of philosophers of aesthetics and their different viewpoints. It also introduces the principles of sociology and environmental psychology as a basis for human behavior, mutual influences between humans and the environment, and how to translate social and psychological behavior into design and architecture.

🎨Major Mandatory Requirements (75 Credit Hours)

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes learning about technical drawing tools and materials and methods of using them, implementing manual exercises and drawing lines, curves, two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, in addition to how to draw architectural engineering plans necessary to illustrate design ideas.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 3 | Practical: 0

This course includes a historical study of the emergence and development of interior design and its fundamentals, including identifying the various influences that affected the course of design through different eras, starting from ancient and medieval civilizations up to modern developments in the field and their design trends in the twentieth century.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes introducing students to the method of drawing three-dimensional scenes from reality onto a two-dimensional flat surface at a certain drawing scale (reduced or enlarged), and introducing students to methods of drawing different perspective projections and drawing architectural spaces from inside and outside with shadow and lighting formed by rays falling from a natural or artificial light source.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 3 | Practical: 0

This course includes tracking various theories in design that emerged after the Industrial Revolution and focuses on comparing traditional and modern methodologies in an analytical and critical manner. In addition to studying the appropriate methodology in the design process and methods of creative design thinking.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes training students on computer software specialized in interior design such as AutoCAD two-dimensional and three-dimensional programs, focusing on different tools and commands and the extent of their use in interior design processes with two-dimensional and three-dimensional exercises representing the various techniques of the program.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 0 | Practical: 3

This course includes introducing the physical properties of various materials used in interior design, their employment methods and techniques, including wood, metals, stones, marble, glass, and plastics, in addition to partitions and interior structures, quantity calculation and cost estimation.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 0 | Practical: 3

This course addresses the study of human movement, body proportions and their impact on interior space dimensions, and the dimensions of furniture and equipment used inside buildings.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Introducing students to the fundamentals and elements of interior design, engineering rules, plans, sections, elevations and engineering perspectives with practical applications.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 0 | Practical: 3

Study of natural and artificial lighting, principles of acoustics and sound insulation, and their practical applications in interior spaces.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Introducing students to techniques for producing architectural drawings and rendering textures using pencils, markers, watercolors and gouache through practical exercises.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Training students on 3D Max software with focus on modeling, lighting, materials and final output through three-dimensional applications.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Learning about tools and raw materials in workshops and implementing functional and aesthetic models including furniture pieces and various interior elements.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Study of residential interior design in terms of function, circulation, furniture layout, lighting, and project presentation with plans, sections and perspectives.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Introducing students to the principles of environmental design and green architecture, sustainability, energy conservation and the use of environmentally friendly materials.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Interior design for public buildings including commercial, hospitality and cultural facilities with preparation of construction drawings and physical models.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Study of furniture evolution through the ages, creative design methods, preparation of construction drawings and manufacturing prototypes.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 0 | Practical: 3

Theoretical and practical aspects of building construction and maintenance, implementation methods and structural systems related to interior design.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

Learning to read and prepare construction drawings and produce them in an implementable format according to approved codes.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 6 | Practical: 0

Implementing comprehensive interior design for the graduation project and presenting it at a professional level before a specialized jury.

💻Supporting Mandatory Requirements (6 Credit Hours)

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes learning about the properties of color and its components physically and chemically through practical applications that contribute to its use in various designs, with study of color relationships, gradations and their effects by light and shadow, as well as studying the most important color theories and their applications.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 3 | Practical: 0

This course includes studying the theoretical aspect of the fundamentals of photography, its importance and origins, as well as traditional and digital cameras, their parts and how they work. It also contains a practical application component for employing photographs in creating innovative designs that reflect students' scientific and practical capabilities.

🏗️Elective Major Requirements (6 Credit Hours)

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes studying the fundamentals and elements of interior design, its characteristics and technical terminology in English, and training students to express interior designs and their artistic ideas in English.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes studying several topics that interior designers rely on to produce integrated design that achieves elements of human comfort, including sustainable design and environmentally friendly design, which encompass all stages of design from research and designing detailed plans to the final production of the project.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 3 | Practical: 0

This course includes the role that accessories and complements such as furniture, fabrics, curtains, lighting, indoor plants and artworks play in designing interior spaces for private and public buildings.

3 Credit Hours | Theory: 1 | Practical: 4

This course includes training students on three-dimensional computer software such as 3D Max and linking it with Vray software and Lumion software, learning advanced tools in them such as lighting, materials and rendering to benefit from them in the process of simulating interior spaces more realistically, and training students on animated scenes in virtual interior design.