Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design/Master of Arts in Design - Interior Design for Sustainability

The Department of Design offers a grad track pathway for the existing UNT undergraduate student pursuing a major in interior design to first earn their bachelor's and then earn their master's degree in a shorter period of time. In this grad track option, the student will take a maximum of 6 credit hours of graduate courses while completing the BFA with a major in interior design. These credits will then be counted toward the MA with a major in design and a concentration in interior design for sustainability. Prior to registering for graduate courses, the student must have been admitted into the grad track option.

Let your creativity flourish where we live, work and play. Interior design is the professional and comprehensive practice of creating an interior environment that addresses, protects, and responds to human needs. Delve into the art, science, and business planning of a creative, technical, sustainable, and functional interior solution that corresponds to human needs and the architecture of a space. You will learn to incorporate process and strategy, well-being, safety, and health with informed decisions about style and aesthetics. Interior designers create the environments in which we live, work and play. Students learn about residential and commercial spaces and generally specialize in one or the other.

As a student in the Interior Design program, your coursework will focus on understanding human needs, design for special populations, sustainable design solutions through space planning and finishes selection, color, computer-aided design, lighting, and the history of furniture and architecture, among other subjects.

Graduates of the program understand the fundamentals of design and technical development in areas such as construction document development, computer-aided design, presentation and interior construction. Interior designers also must have knowledge regarding lighting and building systems and federal, state and local building codes.