Kitchen and Bath Design (COA)

Effective: Fall 2019
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

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Program Description

What can I do with this major?

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Arts and Design

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= Critical Course = Prerequisite for Other Courses = Prerequisite Required = Required for Major GE = General Education

Semester 1

12 units

ID 48
Drafting for Interior Design

3 units
This course will introduce basic drafting techniques as related to architectural working drawings for interior design. Emphasis is on lettering, measuring techniques, scale problems, use of architectural and NKBA graphic standards, dimensioning, plans, elevations, sections, Architectural lettering and perspective drawings.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring

ID 49 or ARCH 3 1

3 units
Terms Offered: Fall

ID 49
Digital Tools for Design and Visual Communication

3 units
Introduction to digital tools with computer-aided design drafting. Ability to effectively use basic design principles in two dimensions. Topics include command basics including drawing entity creation and modification, industry layering standards, text and dimensioning systems appropriate to architecture, creating symbol libraries, external reference techniques, model and paper space commands, and plotting techniques.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Fall
or

ARCH 3
Digital Tools for Design and Visual Communication

3 units
Introduction to digital tools with computer-aided design drafting. Ability to effectively use basic design principles in two dimensions. Topics include command basics including drawing entity creation and modification, industry layering standards, text and dimensioning systems appropriate to architecture, creating symbol libraries, external reference techniques, model and paper space commands, and plotting techniques.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Spring, Fall

ID 50
Residential Space Planning

3 units
This course will go through basic techniques for drafting kits in planning space and selecting a home for interior designers. Things to consider when planning a space in a home: a support system for private and group living spaces, functional elements for interior spaces, color in interior walls, relaxation area, entertainment space, and dining area.There are also factors to consider when selecting a home: location, climate, aesthetics and economy.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ID 48
Terms Offered: Fall

ID 54
Principles of Interior Design

3 units
The course is intended to provide students with the knowledge of elements and principles of design as they apply to interiors and to analyze interiors using basic design concepts. Emphasis is on the use of color and texture in the selection of home furnishings.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Fall
  • 1 - ID 49 is recommended.

Semester 2

6 units

ID 51
Digital Drafting Principles I

3 units
Introduction to vocabulary, tools, and graphic techniques for interior designers, communication utilizing computer aid methods, with emphasis on residential interior design drawings including elevations, perspectives, rendering and 3 dimensional modeling.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: ID 49
  2. Strongly Recommended: ID 48
Terms Offered: Spring

ID 62
Kitchen and Bathroom Design

3 units
Survey of the field of kitchen and bathroom designs. Includes resources, materials, trends, costs and needs, both functional and aesthetic.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ID 48
Terms Offered: Spring

Semester 3

6 units

ID 58
Fundamentals of Lighting

3 units
Residential and commercial lighting systems as they apply to what constitutes a well-lit interior space. Includes an investigation of current lighting fixtures and lighting resources.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ID 48
Terms Offered: Fall

ID 60
Materials and Resources

3 units
Survey of residential and commercial interior furnishings with attention to product knowledge of furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, metals, plastics, and composite materials. Skills needed to perform related activities.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Fall

Semester 4

6 units

ID 56
Professional Practices

3 units
Interior design practices including business and marketing aspects, wholesale resource development, design presentation and career preparation, contractual obligations.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Spring

ID 70
Advanced Kitchen and Bath Design

3 units
National Kitchen and Bath (NKBA) planning guidelines and NKBA Access Standards for kitchen and bath. Emphasis on designing a universal kitchen and universal bath. Creation of working documents to design a kitchen and bath from its beginning to completion.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: ID 62
Terms Offered: Spring
Total Units: 30 units
This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.