2024-2025
Interior Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts
VCU
Community college:
Uniform Certificate of General Studies (Virginia Community College System)
Associate degree
Uniform Certificate of General Studies (UCGS)
Associate of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (please consult with the VCU Transfer Center for additional course recommendations)
Completing the UCGS or associate degree will waive VCU's general education requirements.
Program description
The mission of the VCUarts Department of Interior Design is to provide an intellectually rigorous, studio-based experience grounded in the issues of interior architecture. Accredited since 1973, the department develops in its students an enduring passion and curiosity for their work, a determination to continually seek quality in their endeavors, an ability to reflect constructively upon their actions as individuals, and a responsibility for their lifelong education. The department focuses a student's professional activities while encouraging connections between these activities to a larger forum of ideas that enrich their culture and their environment.
Career opportunities
A degree in interior design can open up career opportunities in diverse areas of interior design as well as the potential to define one’s own career path. The interior design profession encompasses project types ranging from single-family residence to hospitals, from academic spaces to offices, hotels to restaurant, and retail spaces to religious facilities and other related design fields. Additionally, interior designers find opportunities in furniture and materials specification and sales, facilities and space planning, lighting design, production and set design, and visualization specialists.
Bachelor-level job titles
- Design Captain
- Design Entrepreneur
- Design Principal
- Design Strategist
- Design Thinking Consultant
- Drafter
- Interior Architect
- Interior Designer
- Project Manager
Graduate and professional level job titles
- Design Professor
- Interior Architect
- Interior Designer
- Project Designer
Contact information
Telephone: (804) 827-1349
Email: transferinfo@vcu.edu
VCCS Transfer Planning Checklist
Telephone: (804) 828-1222 or (800) 841-3638
Email: ugrad@vcu.edu
Apply Here.
Guaranteed transfer admission requirements
- No guaranteed admission.
- Apply for admission during first year at community college.
- Review deadlines and portfolio requirements for transfer applicants here.
Degree requirements in Bulletin
Plan of study in Bulletin
Requirements
Highest level of math required
- Quantitative Foundations requirement only
Science required
- Natural Sciences requirement only
Foreign language requirements
- No
Additional tuition/fees
- Yes
GPA requirements (to progress/graduate in the major)
- 2.5+ cumulative GPA
VCU Major Maps
Transfer major map
2024-2025
Interior Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Virginia Community College System (Uniform Certificate of General Studies)
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MAXIMIZE COURSE AND DEGREE PLANNING
- Schedule an appointment with your community college advisor to map out your course plan.
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- Explore community college financial aid resources and submit your FAFSA on time.
- Submit a transfer advising request to the VCU Transfer Center.
GET CONNECTED WITH YOUR COMMUNITY
- Review application deadlines and portfolio requirements for visual arts applicants.
- Research housing options for next year.
- Register to vote.
- Volunteer for community service projects.
- Get involved with student clubs and organizations at your community college.
- Explore the School of the Arts website.
DEVELOP CULTURAL AGILITY
- Identify a mentor in a diversity organization.
- Attend diversity-focused events on your community college campus and in your community (e.g., international festival).
- Make friends with people with diverse perspectives and join a cultural or identity-related student organization.
EXPLORE CAREERS AND DEVELOP ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Create LinkedIn profile.
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Recommended courses
2024-2025
Interior Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Virginia Community College System (Uniform Certificate of General Studies)
| Course | Title | Equivalent course | Credits | Requirements |
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| SDV 100 | College Success Skills | UNIV 101 | 1 | Elective |
| ENG 111 | College Composition I Note: students with credit for AP English Language and Composition will only receive credit for UNIV 111 at VCU and should take ENG 112 to fulfill the VCU composition requirement. | UNIV 111-112 | 3 | General education |
| ENG 112 | College Composition II | UNIV 200 | 3 | General education |
| MTH 154 | Quantitative Reasoning (or any other approved MTH course) | MATH 131 | 3 | General education |
| ART 101 | History of Art: Prehistoric to Gothic (this course fulfills a requirement for the Art Foundation program at VCU) | ARTH 103 | 3 | Major (Art Foundation) |
| ART 102 | History of Art: Renaissance to Modern (this course fulfills a requirement for the Art Foundation program at VCU) | ARTH 104 | 3 | Major (Art Foundation) |
| ART 121 | Foundations of Drawing (depending on your portfolio and admission to VCU Arts, this courses will either transfer as an ARTS 1XX elective or as ARTF 131). | ARTS 1XX or ARTF 131 | 3 | Major (Art Foundation) |
| ART 131 | Two-Dimensional Design (depending on your portfolio and admission to VCU Arts, this courses will either transfer as an ARTS 1XX elective or as ARTF 132). | ARTS 1XX or ARTF 132 | 3 | Major (Art Foundation) |
| Social science | Select one of the following (UCGS Block III): ECO 150, ECO 201, ECO 202, GEO 210, GEO 220, PLS 135, PLS 140, PLS 241, PSY 200, SOC 200, SOC 211, SOC 268. | VCU equivalent | 3 | General education |
| Lab Science | Select one of the following (UCGS Block IV): BIO 101, BIO 102, BIO 106, CHM 101, CHM 111, CHM 112, ENV 121, ENV 122, GOL 105, GOL 106, GOL 110, PHY 100, PHY 201, PHY 202, PHY 241, PHY 242. | VC equivalent | 4 | General education |
| History | Select one of the following (UCGS Block VI): HIS 101, HIS 102, HIS 111, HIS 112, HIS 121, HIS 122. | HIST | 3 | General education |
| Community college credits transferred to VCU | 32 | |||
| Course | Title | Credits | Requirements |
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| Art Foundation Program. Students must complete the Art Foundation program at VCU or equivalent courses at another institution to be eligible for admission to the Interior Design degree. | |||
| ARTF 133 | Space Research (ART 132 at community college will fulfill this requirement if admitted to VCU Arts) | 3 | Major (Ancillary) |
| ARTF 134 | Time Studio (ART 130, ART 203, or ART 208 will fulfill this requirement if you are admitted to VCU Arts) | 3 | Major (Ancillary) |
| ARTF 139 or ARTF 138 | Project Studio or Project Seminar | 2 | Major (Ancillary) |
| Interior Design major requirements | |||
| IDES 201 | Introductory Interior Design Studio I | 4 | Major |
| IDES 202 | Introductory Interior Design Studio II | 4 | Major |
| IDES 211 | Interior Graphics I | 3 | Major |
| IDES 212 | Interior Graphics II | 3 | Major |
| IDES 231 | Fundamentals of Interior Design | 3 | Major |
| IDES 251 | Historic Environments: Ancient Through 19th Century | 3 | Major |
| IDES 252 | Historic Environments: 20th-21st Centuries | 3 | Major |
| IDES 301 | Interior Design Studio I | 4 | Major |
| IDES 302 | Interior Design Studio II | 4 | Major |
| IDES 311 | Advanced Interior Graphics I | 3 | Major |
| IDES 312 | Advanced Interior Graphics II | 3 | Major |
| IDES 321 | Interior Materials and Textiles | 3 | Major |
| IDES 323 | Light and Color in Interior Environments | 3 | Major |
| IDES 400 | Senior Interior Design Studio I | 4 | Major |
| IDES 401 | Senior Interior Design Studio II | 4 | Major |
| IDES 422 | Building Systems | 3 | Major |
| IDES 431 | ID Business Practices | 3 | Major |
| IDES 441 | Senior Design Seminar I | 2 | Major |
| IDES 442 | Senior Design Seminar II | 2 | Major |
| IDES 493 | Interior Design Internship | 3 | Major |
| Art/design elective (300 to 400 level) | 3 | Major (Ancillary) | |
| Art/design elective (any) | 3 | Major (Ancillary) | |
| Open elective | 10 | Elective | |
| REAL | The REAL requirement may be satisfied by successfully completing a 300-level (or higher) course that has received a REAL attribute of Level 2, 3 or 4 or through an approved “REAL” co-curricular experience that has received a REAL attribute of Level 3 or 4. See VCU advisor for options. | 0 | Major |
| Credits completed at VCU | 88 | ||
| Minimum credits required for bachelor's degree | 120 | ||