Program Overview

Interior Design BA (Hons)

Overview

We are proud to be one of the longest established Interior courses in Europe with our graduates working all over the world and are a SBID Centre of Excellence.

Course Details

• Duration: 3 years (or 4 with a work placement)
• UCAS Code: W250 BA/ID
• School: School of Arts & Creative Industries

Course Structure

Year 1 Core Modules

• Collaboration Project: Enhance your skills in team-working, communication, project management, and negotiation.
• Introduction to Interior Design Skills and Practice: Learn drawing and drafting for architectural communication, model building techniques, working to scale, and historical style and context.
• Introduction to the Creative Industries: Understand the structure of the sector and the interdisciplinary relationships between art, design, and media.
• Residential Design and Communication: Understand the fundamentals of the interior design process and the complexities of dealing with spatial change within a given building.

Year 2 Core Modules

• Commercial, Branded Environments and Visualisation: Explore commercial spaces and new landscapes for workspaces, considering client branding, employee health and wellbeing, and contemporary debate.
• Creative Research Project: Develop critical thinking and analysis skills, exploring contemporary issues and debates related to the creative industries.
• Industry Project: Develop and explore, in depth, a creative industry-based project in your specialist area of design, art, media, music, photography, or illustration.
• Working in the Creative Industries: Research the social, political, or ecological challenges around us to generate a small-scale project.

Optional Work Placement Year

• Work Placement: Spend one year in industry learning and developing your skills.

Final-Year Core Modules

• Major Project: Produce a self-managed, individual extended piece of independent investigation and/or creative production or portfolio of work.
• Professional Practice: Plan and implement your departure from education to your first or new career, or to further study.

How You Learn

• Think, Dream, and Make: Learn through doing, with focused studio time for practice-based creative work.
• Develop Your Creative Voice: You are coached to find and grow your creative voice.
• Join the Creative Sector: Our intensive, career-focused modules help you understand working in the arts and creative industries.
• Become Connected: Access our network of alumni and practising creatives working in practice and at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA).

How You Are Assessed

• The Work Produced is the Work Assessed: There are no separate written examinations, and the use of design projects is a key feature.
• Critique of Project-Based Assignments: This is a process widely used in the design field and allows for both staff and peer group appraisal.

Entry Requirements

• Year 1 Entry: 96-112 points, including a creative subject, from any combination of recognised Level 3 qualifications and a creative portfolio showing skills in your chosen discipline.
• Non-EU International Students: Check our web pages on UKVI-compliant English language requirements.

Employability

• Career Opportunities: You might pursue a career in interior design or as a designer in the retail, exhibition, set design, leisure, surface pattern, merchandising, or housing areas.
• Work Placement: A work placement officer and the University's award-winning careers service help you with applying for a placement.

Tuition Fees

• UK Applicants: £9,535 a year
• International Applicants: £17,000 a year

Professional Accreditation

• Society of British and International Design (SBID): The course is fully accredited by the SBID, and interior design at Teesside University is recognised as a SBID National Centre of Excellence.