Program Overview

Interior Design (Online) MA

Overview

Take your interior design expertise to the next level as you adopt strategic planning processes to develop creative interior spaces that are practical and stimulating.

Course Details

Core Modules

• Design in Context: Building for People and Society
  • Introduced to the social, cultural, and economic aspects of current design and built environment thinking.
  • Consider people and communities, current spatial design trends, innovation, and new models of construction.
  • Explore the cultural understanding of home, work, community, health, wellbeing, and place.
• Emerging Spatial Trends: Wellbeing and Sustainability
  • Investigate the links between interior design and the built environment with new thinking on designing for health and wellbeing.
  • Focus on notions of environmental wellness in interior design as a growing design ethos.
• Final Design Project
  • Identify, lead, and manage a large-scale, innovative, and complex interior design project.
  • Display a deep understanding of creative and innovative design.
• Future Technologies
  • Introduced to new and emerging design tools and software that are becoming more widespread in interior and architectural design practice.
  • Explore how building performance and sustainability is considered from the beginning of the design process.
• Interior Practice: Managing Design
  • Consider the management and business of interior design practice and the role of the interior designer in professional relationships.

How You Learn

• All learning is online.
• Learn through lectures, workshops, and seminars, as well as through educationally purposeful packages of digital learning.
• Develop creative skills and commercial awareness by working to industry briefs.
• Learning focuses on reflecting the reality of working in the creative industries.

How You Are Assessed

• Most modules include a progressive assessment strategy, with practical tasks set each week to support you in working towards in-course assessment (ICA).

Entry Requirements

• Typically have a first degree (2.2 minimum).
• Consider other relevant experience or qualifications.
• Present a portfolio of work or a completed project showing the development of your work.
• International students require IELTS 6.0 or equivalent.

Employability

Career Opportunities

• Work as a designer in commercial, residential, hospitality, and health sectors.
• Design and space planning in schools and further and higher education.
• Retail design and visual merchandising.
• Technical computer-aided (CAD) design work or CAD visualisation.
• Lighting design.
• Exhibition and museum design.
• Interior product and branding.
• Interior specialist within architectural practices.

Learning Platform

• Our virtual learning environment (VLE) is the platform you use to access your online course.
• Benefits include:
  • Accessible on your smartphone, tablet, and computer.
  • Easy to use and navigate.
  • Modules are set out by topics and themes.
  • Support to become familiar with your VLE.

Fees

• £855 for each 20 credits.
• £7,695 in total.
• Not eligible for any fee discounts.

Duration and Attendance

• Part-time: 2 years.
• Attendance: 100% online.
• Start date: January, May, or September.

University Information

• Teesside University ranked in the top 50 for online learning in the Uswitch Online Learning Index 2022.
• Teesside University was named University of the Year at the Edufuturists Awards 2022.
• Ranked in the top 350 list of global universities aged 50 years or under.
• Over 1,000 students enrolled on our open learning courses.