Course description
BA (Hons) Interior Design
Have you ever stepped into an empty house and marvelled at the blank walls, the open space, with eagerness to design or deliver the rooms creative potential?
BA (Hons) Interior Design at OCA will challenge your preconceptions of what space is, and how you can shape it. Exploring how people and society relate to their environments. The course will harness your creativity, helping you to become a spatial dreamer, architectural investigator and playful innovator of interiors.
Throughout the course you’ll develop skills by envisaging, exploring and experimenting. Support from your specialist tutor and creative community will evoke new ideas and interpretations. You’ll question both the physical and the invisible, conducting experiment-led research and learn from these tests. Through model-making, drawing and self-reflection you’ll be encouraged to develop your own creative approach to interior design. The course supports you to develop the skills you need to become a professional interior designer, working with clients to capture spirit and essence.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Interior Design is an open access degree; this means that there are no formal qualifications or experience required to join the course. All you need is a passion for the arts, and willingness to learn.
All OCA courses require students to be IT literate, have a good internet connection, and have a good standard of English equivalent to CEFR B2.
For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Final Award Title and Type: BA (Hons) Interior Design
Upon successful completion of the course students are able to:
- Demonstrate proficiency in a comprehensive range of 2d and 3d design and technical skills
- (digital and analogue).
- Have detailed knowledge of spatial design strategies and the ability to critique, reflect and
- contextualise the strategies of application.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the wider social and cultural contexts that influence and
- shape interior design and how we use space.
- Critically and objectively evaluate own work
Training Course Content
Course Units
At Level 1 (HE4), you’ll take three core units, Exploring Principles & Theories, Exploration through Experimentation and Exploring Creative Practice. You’ll be introduced to the basics of interior design and the built environment, and learn higher education principles of creativity, evaluation, and reflection.
Level 2 (HE5) covers Advancing Forward, and Future Thinking. Here you’ll be introduced to conventions, and project management through negotiated briefs. You’ll also develop self-direction.
At Level 3 (HE6), all students take Final Major Project, Critical Research, and Sustaining Your Practice. You’ll study Final Major Project and Critical Research together, combining everything you’ve learnt throughout the programme. Sustaining Your Practice is about preparing you for life after study, enabling you to continue as a professional designer and using your degree in your hobbies, interests, career, or maybe to start a new career.
Course delivery details
As a flexible degree, you can complete the programme in 9 years, with a maximum of three years to complete each level of the course.
Expenses
UK 2020/21 Fees
- Foundations: £900 per course
- Level 1 (HE4): £4,050 for the level
- Level 2 (HE5): £3,340 for the level
- Level 3 (HE6): £3,340 for the level
Outside of the UK 2020/21 Fees
- Foundations: £1,050 per course
- Level 1 (HE4): £4,500 for the level
- Level 2 (HE5): £3,690 for the level
- Level 3 (HE6): £3,690 for the level
Continuing Studies
Upon completing this degree you’ll have the skills ready to be a professional Designer. This can encompass a variety of interior designer or spacial designer opportunities, such as in commercial, leisure, or domestic settings, as your own boss or in a consultancy. Prospects can tell you all you need to know about interior design jobs and vacancies.