3.5+0 BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Take the creatively challenging Bachelor of Art (Honours) Interior Architecture & Design programme that introduces you to all aspects of interior design. Develop the range of practical and intellectual skills that encourage risk-taking and inventive problem-solving approaches.

• Accredited by Board of Architects Malaysia
• Specialist lecturers who are design professionals
• A compulsory industry placement programme provides students with the opportunity to experience real-life industry practice
• Programme and curriculum designs are enhanced by professional input from design practitioners
• Degree awarded by Sheffield Hallam University, UK
• Students will stand a chance to be awarded the Annual Inspirational Student Awards by Sheffield Hallam University
• Through the “Co-Exist” initiative, student will experience interdisciplinary practice

  Year 1

   

  Subjects include:
  • Interior Architecture Design Space, Form and Architecture Part 1
  • Interior Architecture Design Space, Form and Architecture Part 2
  • Interior Design People and Place Part 1
  • Interior Design People and Place Part 2

  Electives:
  • Green Design
  • Building Construction and Materials

  Learning Focus:
  • Theory and Practice of Design
  • Architecture and Interior Design Vocabulary
  • Fundamentals of design process and thinking
  • Re-ordering, manipulating, and transforming space
  • Understanding of space, place, and people
  • Architecture history, human and cultural
  • AutoCAD, SketchUp

  Year 2

   

  Subjects include:
  • Interior Design Context Part 1
  • Interior Design Context Part 2
  • Interior Design Application Part 1
  • Interior Design Application Part 2
  • Building by Law (Malaysia)

  Learning Focus:
  • Understanding of design culture and practice
  • Differences in perceptions and interpretations of concepts and practice
  • Creative, innovative spatial practice in interior design
  • Professional practice as Interior Designer
  • Project management, construction and documentation
  • Projects and collaborations with industry professionals
  • Live project and competition
  • V-Ray for 3Ds Max

  Year 3

   

  Subjects include:
  • Interior Design Inhabitation
  • Interior Design Resolution

  Industry Attachment (Compulsory)
  • Industry Placement (Interior Design)

  Learning Focus:
  • Innovative and sustainable designs
  • Emerging design practices
  • Professional development
  • Critical and self-directed study
  • Design integration
  • Graduation project
  • Design research report
  • Autodesk Revit

  MPU Subjects

   

  • Bahasa Kebangsaan A*/Design Thinking
  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Engagement
  • Integrity and Anti-Corruption
  • Appreciation of Ethics and Civilisations (Local students) / Communicating in Malay 2 (International students)
  • Philosophy and Current Issues