Interior Design Program
The Interior Design Program at Onaizah Colleges is one of the distinguished academic programs aimed at providing competitive higher education within a stimulating academic environment. It prepares qualified interior designers equipped with specialized knowledge, as well as technical and research skills, enabling them to meet the evolving demands of the local labor market and align with the objectives of Saudi Vision 2030.
The program offers a comprehensive curriculum that integrates both theoretical and practical components through design studios and real-world projects. It fosters creative and critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork skills, while also providing field training opportunities and professional partnerships that offer students direct exposure to actual work environments.
Graduates of the program are qualified to pursue careers across various areas of interior design, including residential and commercial space planning, supervision and implementation, design consulting, and project development. Furthermore, the program opens pathways for advanced studies in the fields of design and architecture.
The program offers a comprehensive curriculum that integrates both theoretical and practical components through design studios and real-world projects. It fosters creative and critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork skills, while also providing field training opportunities and professional partnerships that offer students direct exposure to actual work environments.
Graduates of the program are qualified to pursue careers across various areas of interior design, including residential and commercial space planning, supervision and implementation, design consulting, and project development. Furthermore, the program opens pathways for advanced studies in the fields of design and architecture.
Program Mission
To offer competitive higher education in interior design within a supportive academic environment that prepares qualified interior designer with vital employability skills, and to make research contributions, promote community engagement, and participate in realizing the Kingdom's Vision 2030.
Program Objectives
- Improve the quality of teaching and learning experiences, the quality of learning resources and the quality of basic facilities, equipment, and supporting infrastructure.
- Provide support to students through the improvement of academic, social, psychological, and professional advising, counselling and supportive services.
- Enhancement of the performance of faculty members both professionally and academically.
- Improvement of the program’s administrative efficiency and processes and procedures.
- Preparation of competent and qualified graduates with vital employability skills demanded in the labor market:
- Enable graduates to demonstrate core knowledge in interior design using essential technologies and basic research skills.
- Enhance students’ critical thinking, problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills.
- Improve students’ awareness of ethical values, principles of professional conduct, independence and autonomy.
- Contribute to the field of interior design through production of quality research in alignment with OC and program’s research priorities.
- Contribute to the local community through services, programs and consultations.
Program Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
- Identify fundamental interior design concepts, principles and theories in relation to other disciplines mainly architecture and engineering.
- Describe the basic characteristics of interior design materials, functions and equipment.
- Discuss the basic elements of planning and research processes of interior design projects.
- Explain interior design ethical values, safety provisions and precautions, principles of professional conduct, and indoor environmental and client-based requirements.
Skills:
- Generate material selection, equipment, furniture and fixture considering applicable codes, sustainability and indoor environmental quality.
- Design sustainable interior projects that enrich indoor environmental quality, and that solve real life issues, using appropriate research methods.
- Critically analyze sets of design ideas and documents for an interior design project.
- Critically evaluate abstract design concepts during all phases of the design process to indicate conditions and requirements within the interior environment.
- Produce creative interior design drawings and documents using a variety of media, design techniques, computational and quantitative tools and technology.
- Effectively communicate designs solutions, digital design models, inquiries and research results of complex issues in interior design projects with stakeholders.
Values, Autonomy, and Responsibility:
- Effectively participate in interior design projects and their discussion groups, in order to advance the discipline and society.
- Demonstrate ethical values, safety provisions and precautions, principles of professional conduct in interior design workplace.
- Act responsibly, independently and autonomously in making design decisions within interior design projects.
Career Opportunities for Program Graduates
- Interior Designer.
- Interior Design Consultant.
- Interior Space Planner.
- Interior Lighting Designer.
- Furniture Designer.
- Exhibition and Display Designer.
- 3D Visualization and Rendering Designer.
- Researcher / Academic in Interior Design.
- Site Supervisor / Interior Design Project Coordinator.
- Instructor / Trainer in CAD and Design Software.
