Savannah College of Art and Design
B.F.A. in Interior Design
Savannah, USA
BA
DURATION
180 hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
USD 41,130 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total, full-time student for one academic year
Key Summary
Interior designers enhance quality of life as they curate the places we love. At SCAD, interior design students join a 40-year, award-winning tradition of creating energetic, inspiring spaces. SCAD students explore a wide range of career paths, learning to maximize health, wellness, style, and sustainable practices across corporate, residential, retail, and hospitality design. Students capitalize on this wealth of contexts through SCADpro, the university's in-house creative consultancy, applying them to collaborations with corporate partners like Amazon, Chick-fil-A, Disney, and more.
Foundation studies: 30 hours
- DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
- DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
- DRAW 101 Drawing II: Composition and Media
- DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
- SBLD 115 Graphics for the Building Arts
- SBLD 223 Form, Space, Order
General education: 60 hours
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- DIGI 130 Digital Communication
- ARLH 206 Modern Architecture Before 1900
- ARLH 208 Modern Architecture After 1900
- Select one of these two options:
- ARLH 211 Survey of World Architecture and Urbanism
- ARLH 363 World Vernacular Architecture
- BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
- General education elective
- Mathematics/natural sciences elective
Major curriculum: 80 hours
- INDS 101 Introduction to Interior Design
- INDS 110 Interior Design Studio I: Exploring People and Space
- INDS 204 Rendering for the Interior
- INDS 209 Interior Materials
- INDS 210 Interior Design Studio II: Specialized Interior Environments
- INDS 211 History of Interior Design
- ELDS 225 Electronic Design I: Digital Communication for the Building Arts
- INDS 302 Lighting for the Interior
- INDS 306 Building Construction and Systems for the Interior
- INDS 320 Interior Design Studio III: Documentation and Communication
- INDS 350 Interior Design Studio IV: Collaborative Practice in Design
- INDS 413 Professional Practice in Interior Design
- INDS 470 Interior Design Studio V: Capstone I - Design Thinking for Innovation
- INDS 480 Interior Design Studio VI: Capstone II - Design Development and Communication
- Select one of these three options:
- INDS 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
- ARCH, ARLH, ELDS, FURN, INDS, PRES, or SBLD elective
Additional electives: 10 hours
Total course of study: 180 hours
Become an interior designer. Become a corporate designer. Become a project manager. Interior designers identify, research, and creatively solve problems pertaining to the function, safety, and quality of interior environments. They consider purpose, beauty, and style, shaping the spaces that matter most.
Launch your career as a professional:
- Interior designer
- Lighting designer
- Retail designer
- Creative director
- Corporate designer
- Hospitality designer
- Cruise ship interior designer
- Health care facility designer
- Aviation interior designer
Get recruited and hired by the best of the best:
- Arquitectonica
- HOK
- Gensler
- Disney
- Microsoft
- NASA
- Steelcase