Program Overview

Interior Design Program

The Interior Design program is a 4-year degree program that applies to the 2025 catalog year.

Program Overview

The program is offered by the College of Health and Human Development, Family and Consumer Sciences.

Year 1: 1st Semester

• Course | Units
  • ART 124A (meets GE Area 3A Arts) | 3
  • ART 141 | 3
  • FCS 111 | 3
  • GE Basic Skills: Area 1A English Composition (Written Communication) | 3
  • GE Basic Skills: Area 2 Lower Division Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning | 3
  • Total | 15

Year 1: 2nd Semester

• Course | Units
  • ART 230 | 3
  • FCS 113 | 3
  • FCS 160 | 3
  • GE Basic Skills: Area 1C Oral Communication | 3
  • CARQ Lifelong Learning Campus Requirement | 3
  • Total | 15

Year 2: 1st Semester

• Course | Units
  • FCS 211 | 3
  • FCS 213/L | 1/2
  • FCS 214/L | 1/2
  • GE Basic Skills: Area 1B Critical Thinking | 3
  • GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science | 3
  • Total | 15

Year 2: 2nd Semester

• Course | Units
  • FCS 210 | 3
  • FCS 217 | 3
  • GE Area 5A Physical Science or GE Area 5B Biological Science (select from GE subarea not previously completed) | 3
  • GE Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences | 3
  • GE CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies | 3
  • Total | 15

Year 3: 1st Semester

• Course | Units
  • ART 315 (meets GE Upper Division CSUN Section F Comparative Cultural Studies) | 3
  • FCS 311 | 3
  • FCS 314/L | 2/1
  • FCS 316 | 3
  • GE Area 4A and Area 4B Constitution of the United States and California State and Local Government | 3
  • Total | 15

Year 3: 2nd Semester

• Course | Units
  • FCS 312/L | 2/1
  • FCS 317 | 3
  • FCS 318 (meets GE Upper Division Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences) | 3
  • FCS 380 | 3
  • CARQ American History Campus Requirement | 3
  • Total | 15

Year 4: 1st Semester

• Course | Units
  • FCS 410 | 3
  • FCS 411 | 3
  • FCS 412 | 3
  • FCS 413/L | 2/1
  • FCS 415 | 3
  • Total | 15

Year 4: 2nd Semester

• Course | Units
  • FCS 414 | 3
  • FCS 494 and FCS 494I | 2/1
  • GE Upper Division Area 2 Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning or GE Upper Division Area 5 Physical and Biological Sciences | 3
  • GE Area 3B Humanities | 3
  • GE Area 5C Science Laboratory Activity | 1
  • Elective | 2
  • Total | 15
• OVERALL TOTAL UNITS | 120

Additional Requirements

One course for the degree must have an Ethnic Studies/ES designation.