DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
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Introduction
Launch your career as a professional interior designer
Dream, inspire, and create. This ARIDO- and IDC-recognized, hands-on program will prepare you for your career as a professional interior designer.
This program specializes in creating interior environments in the context of professional interior design standards and practice. The curriculum emphasizes space planning and management, design process, research methodologies, socially responsible design, building systems, technological applications, contract documentation, and interior design presentation. Sustainable practices, entrepreneurship models, and regulatory codes are integrated throughout the curriculum. Our program offers a uniquely collaborative learning experience that facilitates a hands-on model incorporating creative development, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and teaming protocols, providing our graduates with exceptional interior design knowledge and skills.
Why study Honours Bachelor of Interior Design at Georgian?
Integrated curriculum
Our program is focused on a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to provide our students with a solid foundation to develop skills, achieve goals, and launch a successful career in the design industry.
Georgian’s unique learning style includes a core creative design problem, developed in the studio, and supported by digital media, communications, and building science courses.
Industry recognition
Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO)
The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) is the professional body for interior designers in Ontario.
Georgian’s Honours Bachelor of Interior Design program is an ARIDO-recognized interior design program in Ontario. In collaboration with ARIDO, graduating students can apply for intern status through the Alternative Pathways into ARIDO Membership.
Additionally, graduating fourth-year students are encouraged to display their work with on the ARIDO blog each spring to celebrate their thesis accomplishments and share their talents with the design community in Ontario.
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Curriculum
Semester 1
Core Courses
- INDE 1000 Interior Design Studio 1
- INDE 1001 Design Communications 1
- INDE 1002 Design Theory 1
- INDE 1003 Sustainable Practices
Non-Core Course
- INTS 1002 Introduction to Multidisciplinary Research
Semester 2
Core Courses
- INDE 1004 Interior Design Studio 2
- INDE 1005 Design Communications 2
- INDE 1006 Human Factors
- INDE 1007 Interior Detailing 1
- INDE 1008 Contemporary Design: Origins and Issues
Elective Non-Core Courses
- Select 1 of the following courses: SOCI 1000, HUMA 1012, SCEN 1000, or PSYC 1000.
Semester 3
Core Courses
- INDE 2000 Interior Design Studio 3
- INDE 2001 Design Communications 3
- INDE 2002I nterior Detailing 2
- INDE 2003 Design and Material Culture
Non-Core Course
- STAS 2000 Quantitative Methods and Statistics
Semester 4
Core Courses
- INDE 2004 Interior Design Studio 4
- INDE 2005 Design Communications 4
- INDE 2006 Case Studies in Design
- INDE 2007 Building Technologies 1: Lighting and Electrical Systems
- Non-Core Course
- RSCH 2000 Qualitative Research Methods
Elective Non-Core Courses
- Select 1 of the following courses: SOCI 1000, HUMA 1012, SCEN 1000, or PSYC 1000.
Semester 5
Core Courses
- INDE 3000 Interior Design Studio 5
- INDE 3001 Interior Detailing 3 - CADD 3D
- INDE 3002 Building Technologies 2: Mechanical and Safety Systems and Acoustics
- INDE 3003 Design Theory 2
- INDE 3004 Ontario Building Regulations
Elective Non-Core Courses
- Select 1 course at the 3000 level from the available list during registration.
Semester 6
Core Courses
- INDE 3005 Design Communications 5
- INDE 3006 Professional Practice 1
- INDE 3007I nterdisciplinary Practice
- INDE 3008I nterior Design Studio
- INDE 3009 Site Studies
Elective Non-Core Courses
- Select 1 course from the available list during registration.
Semester 7
Core Courses
- INDE 4000 Interior Design Advanced Studio
- INDE 4001 Design Communications 6
- INDE 4003 Interior Design Thesis 1
- INDE 4005 Professional Practice 2
Elective Non-Core Courses
- Select 1 course at the INTS 4000 level from the available list during registration.
Semester 8
Core Courses
- INDE 4002 Interior Detailing 4 - CADD Thesis
- INDE 4004 Senior Level Thesis Project 2
- INDE 4006 Independent Study Project
Elective Non-Core Courses
- Select 2 courses from the available list during registration.
Co-op Work Term
- COOP 1035 Bachelor of Interior Design Degree Work Term (occurs after semester 3)
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
There are numerous avenues to pursue for productive and creative interior design careers. These pathways include corporate/office design, residential and condominium design, hospitality design, retail design, exhibition design, health care design, civic design, and historic preservation. Many graduates enter directly into positions within established interior design and architectural firms. Career opportunities also include interior design positions in government, facilities space planning, and real estate development.