Of Interest
The Interior Design program recalls and reinforces the mission of the Institute by preparing and graduating students with excellent diverse skills qualifying them for the demands of professional life.
The program recognizes that academic preparation is the foundation of lifelong learning in a dynamic and evolving profession. It seeks to develop student fluency and competence in an array of basic skills and processes with equal insight into the artistic, technical, and managerial competencies of practice. More precisely, the program graduates students with a broad overview of the profession by balancing a curriculum equally weighted in creativity—the art of design—and rudimentary technical knowledge and business acumen required to realize their conceptions.
The program orientation and the structure of the curriculum rest on a tripartite base: Wentworth’s ‘Learning and Competency Objectives,’ CIDA accreditation standards, and the NCIDQ definition of the professional interior designer. These three standards recognize the reality of the specialized, diverse knowledge, and skills required in practice and affords graduates substantial preparation for professional licensure.
To achieve this balanced orientation, the program seeks:
- to foster creativity and artistic vision
- to develop fluency with a design process
- to broaden intellectual depth
- to develop technical skills and the craft of making
- to introduce students to the business of design
- to offer the opportunity to work efficiently both independently and collaboratively in teams
- to recognize the broad professional fiduciary responsibilities to the general public including, but not limited to ethical practice, regulatory requirements, and growing public concerns for resource conservation and sustainability.
The program is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA).
Advancement into the junior year of the BINT program is based on a student’s past performance and demonstrated skill level to succeed in the more advanced courses offered in the junior and senior years. Approval to continue on into the junior year will be based on the following:
- a minimum of 65 earned credits with an overall 2.0 GPA in their first two years of study
- a 2.5 GPA for all courses completed with the prefix DSGN and INTD
- successful portfolio review of their related discipline projects (completed and in progress). All first and second year requirements must be completed before the start of the fourth year
