Interior Design

Villa Maria’s Interior Design Assistant program can offer you:

• The education you need to become an interior designer. To become a Certified Interior Designer in the State of New York (and in many other jurisdictions), you must have a minimum of two years of college-level interior design education. Our Associate in Applied Science degree program satisfies this educational requirement. All credits required for the A.A.S. degree may be applied to the B.F.A. program upon acceptance as a transfer student into that program.
• The fundamentals for career success. Our Interior Design program stresses space planning and design, as well as the development of advanced graphic and verbal communication skills needed to express visual ideas. You’ll also use drawing, drafting, rendering, and modeling skills and computer-aided design (CAD) equipment at all levels to explore and communicate increasingly complex design issues.
• Training in specialized areas. Through our Interior Design studio courses, you will be prepared to create safe, functional and attractive environments for homes, workplaces, and users in the education, healthcare, hospitality and recreation markets.

Villa Maria College’s Interior Design program is accredited by the Council for Interior Design (CIDA). CIDA-accredited programs assure the public that interior design education prepares students to be responsible, well-informed, skilled professionals.

The Career Potential

With the fast pace of change in business and industry, demand for interior designers will continue to increase. In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of interior designers is expected to grow 19% from 2010 through 2020, which is faster than the average for all occupations. Designers with formal training or experience in green or energy efficient design, in particular, are expected to have better job prospects.

As a graduate of this program, you would qualify for entry-level positions such as:

• Assistant interior designers in areas of residential and commercial design
• CAD operators
• Renderers
• Home furnishings design associates

The Requirements

You must earn a grade of C+ or above for successful completion of all IND courses.

Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) in Interior Design Assistant Curriculum Requirements

Our program offers you:

• An opportunity to study basic topics in the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and sites.
• The ability to recognize, analyze and effectively communicate ethical strategies to solve preservation and restoration problems.

Students complete a 15-credit core of course work emphasizing: design history and theories of, and practical techniques in, historic preservation and restoration of sites. The courses and credits comprising the Certificate requirements are fully applicable towards the College’s currently offered B.F.A. degree program in Interior Design.

The Career Potential

Graduates of the Certificate Program in Historical Preservation should be able to:

• Integrate the theoretical and historical bases of preservation and restoration with practical design principles into a unified set of skills that is applicable to preservation and restoration problems.
• Apply knowledge of American architectural, art and design history to problems and issues of historic preservation and restoration.
• Research and document historic sites.
• Apply historic preservation standards, regulations and techniques to specific sites.
• Apply historic restoration techniques to specific sites and communicate historic preservation and restoration values to the general public.

The Requirements

• You must earn a grade of C+ or above for successful completion of all IND courses.
• Historic Preservation Certificate requirements