Course Descriptions

ID 2840 - Design Process + Planning

• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
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• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize a range of problem identification and problem solving methods.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Recognize methods of idea generation and design thinking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in oral communication.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.
• Recognize the origins and intent of laws, codes, and standards.

ID 2840 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Space Planning Basics, 4th Edition - ISBN: 978-1118882009

Human Dimensions + Interior Space - ISBN: 9780823072712

Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, 2nd Edition - ISBN: 9780071346160
Required Course Materials:

• Basic Drafting Equipment
• Colored Markets and pencils
• ¼” and 1/8” graph paper
• ¼” and 1/8” combination plumbing template
• Circle Template
• 11” x 14” vellum sheets
• Roll of 18” white tracing paper (aka “bum wad” or “trash”)
• 3-ring binder
• 25’-0” or 30’-0” tape measure
• Calculator (smartphone app available at Construction Master)
• Clipboard (optional, for fieldwork)
• Storage tube (plastic or cardboard to fit 24” drawings)

ID 3000 - Interior Design Junior Portfolio Review

• GLOBAL CONTEXT Apply a global view and consider social, cultural, economic, and ecological contexts in all aspects of their work.
• COLLABORATION Collaborate and participate in interdisciplinary teams.
• BUSINESS PRACTICES + PROFESSIONALISM Understand the principles and processes that define the profession and the value of interior design to society.
• HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN Apply knowledge of human experience and behavior to designing the built environment.
• DESIGN PROCESS Apply all aspects of the design process to creatively solve a design problem.
• COMMUNICATION Demonstrate effective and polished written and oral communication skills.
• HISTORY + THEORY Apply knowledge of the history of interiors, architecture, decorative arts, and art to design work.
• DESIGN ELEMENTS + PRINCIPLES Apply elements and principles of design.
• LIGHT + COLOR Apply the principles and theories of light and color effectively in relation to environmental impact and human wellbeing.
• PRODUCTS + MATERIALS Create design solutions that integrate furnishings, products, materials, and finishes.
• ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS + HUMAN WELLBEING Apply the principles of acoustics, thermal comfort, indoor air quality and water and waste management in relation to environmental impact and human well- being.
• CONSTRUCTION Understand interior construction and its interrelationship with base building construction and systems.
• REGULATIONS + GUIDELINES Apply laws, codes, standards, and guidelines that impact human experience of interior spaces.

ID 3000 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

ID 3510 - Building Structures + Systems

• Understand that human and environmental conditions vary according to geographic location and impact design and construction decisions.
• Understand how systems thinking informs the practice of interior design.
• Recognize the integration of multi-disciplinary collaboration in design practice.
• Understand the terminology and language necessary to communicate effectively with members of allied disciplines.
• Understand technologically- based collaboration methods specific to the problem-solving process for built environment disciplines.
• Understand the dynamics of team collaboration and the distribution and structure of team responsibilities.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively collaborate with multiple disciplines in developing design solutions.
• Recognize evolving communication technologies.
• Understand that design decisions relating to acoustics, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality impact human well-being and the environment.
• Understand the principles of acoustical design.
• Understand appropriate strategies for acoustical control.
• Understand the principles of thermal design.
• Understand how active and passive thermal systems and components impact interior design solutions.
• Recognize the environmental impact of construction.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by base-building structural systems and construction methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by interior systems, construction, and installation methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by detailing and specification of interior construction materials, products, and finishes.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by the integration of building systems including electrical (such as power, data, lighting, telecommunications, audio visual) and mechanical (such as HVAC, plumbing, and sprinklers).
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by monitoring systems pertaining to energy, security, and building controls systems.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.
• Understand the formats, components, and accepted standards for an integrated and comprehensive set of interior construction documents.
• Read and interpret base- building construction documents.
• Contribute to the production of interior contract documents including drawings, detailing, schedules, and specifications appropriate to project size and scope.

ID 3510 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Building Construction Illustrated, 5th Edition - ISBN: 9781118458341
Required Course Materials:

• (3) Ring Binder
• Drawing Tube
• Flash Drive
• Drafting Supplies
• Trash/trace paper (18” roll)
• Sharpies (black)
• Vellum as needed
• Misc. model making/presentation supplies
• Camera
• Measuring Tape

ID 3530 - Lighting Layout + Design

• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Understand the principles of natural and artificial lighting design.
• Understand strategies for using and modulating natural light.
• Competently select and apply luminaires and light sources.
• Recognize a range of sources for information and research about color.
• Understand color principles, theories, and systems.
• Understand color in relation to materials, textures, light, and form.
• Understand the principles of thermal design.
• Understand how active and passive thermal systems and components impact interior design solutions.
• Understand the principles of indoor air quality.
• Understand how the selection and application of products and systems impact indoor air quality.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by monitoring systems pertaining to energy, security, and building controls systems.

ID 3530 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Fundamentals of Lighting, 3rd edition - ISBN: 9781501317668

Lighting Design Basics, 3rd Edition - ISBN: 9781119394310

ID 3550 - Custom Furnishings

• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Understand the relationship between the natural, built, virtual, and technological environments as they relate to the human experience, wellbeing, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply wayfinding techniques to design solutions.
• ID5 DESIGN PROCESS - Apply all aspects of the design process to creatively solve a design problem.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Understand the elements and principles of design, including spatial definition and organization.
• Demonstrate the ability to explore a range of two- and three-dimensional design solutions using a variety of media.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to two-dimensional design solutions.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand typical fabrication, installation methods, and maintenance requirements.
• Understand appropriate design or specification of products and materials in relation to project criteria and human and environmental wellbeing.
• Recognize the environmental impact of construction.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by base-building structural systems and construction methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by interior systems, construction, and installation methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by detailing and specification of interior construction materials, products, and finishes.

ID 3550 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

ID 3610 - Interior Design Professional Practices

• Recognize current and relevant events that are shaping contemporary society and the world.
• Define the contexts for interior design practice.
• Define the impact of a global market on design practices.
• Define the breadth and depth of interior design’s impact and value.
• Define the components of business practice.
• Understand types of professional business formations.
• Understand elements of project management.
• Understand the instruments of service such as contract documents, transmittals, schedules, budgets, and specifications.
• Understand professional ethics and conduct.
• Engage in career opportunities an interior design education can afford and the options for advanced study.
• Engage with role models who are qualified by education and experience in interior design.
• Recognize the role and value of legal recognition for the profession.
• Recognize the role and value of professional organizations.
• Recognize the role and value of life-long learning.
• Recognize the role and value of public service.

ID 3610 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Professional Practice for Interior Designers in the Global Marketplace - ISBN: 9781609011383

Professional Practice for Interior Designers, 5th Edition - ISBN: 9781118090794
Required Course Materials:

• (3) Ring 3” Binder
• (16) Dividers with Index/Table of Contents Page

ID 3630 - Interior Design Portfolio Development

• GLOBAL CONTEXT Apply a global view and consider social, cultural, economic, and ecological contexts in all aspects of their work.
• COLLABORATION Collaborate and participate in interdisciplinary teams.
• BUSINESS PRACTICES + PROFESSIONALISM Understand the principles and processes that define the profession and the value of interior design to society.
• HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN Apply knowledge of human experience and behavior to designing the built environment.
• DESIGN PROCESS Apply all aspects of the design process to creatively solve a design problem.
• COMMUNICATION Demonstrate effective and polished written and oral communication skills.
• HISTORY + THEORY Apply knowledge of the history of interiors, architecture, decorative arts, and art to design work.
• DESIGN ELEMENTS + PRINCIPLES Apply elements and principles of design.
• LIGHT + COLOR Apply the principles and theories of light and color effectively in relation to environmental impact and human wellbeing.
• PRODUCTS + MATERIALS Create design solutions that integrate furnishings, products, materials, and finishes.
• ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS + HUMAN WELLBEING Apply the principles of acoustics, thermal comfort, indoor air quality and water and waste management in relation to environmental impact and human well- being.
• CONSTRUCTION Understand interior construction and its interrelationship with base building construction and systems.
• REGULATIONS + GUIDELINES Apply laws, codes, standards, and guidelines that impact human experience of interior spaces.

ID 3630 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

ID 3715 - Building Information Modeling: Revit

• Apply knowledge and skills learned to synthesize information to generate evidence-based design solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Demonstrate the ability to explore a range of two- and three-dimensional design solutions using a variety of media.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to two-dimensional design solutions.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Understand color in relation to materials, textures, light, and form.
• Appropriately use color solutions across different modes of design communication.

ID 3715 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

ID 4000 - Interior Design Senior Portfolio Review

The textbook Portfolios for Interior Designers: A Guide to Portfolios, Creative Resumes, + the Job Search is also used in IDSD4250.

• GLOBAL CONTEXT Apply a global view and consider social, cultural, economic, and ecological contexts in all aspects of their work.
• COLLABORATION Collaborate and participate in interdisciplinary teams.
• BUSINESS PRACTICES + PROFESSIONALISM Understand the principles and processes that define the profession and the value of interior design to society.
• HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN Apply knowledge of human experience and behavior to designing the built environment.
• DESIGN PROCESS Apply all aspects of the design process to creatively solve a design problem.
• COMMUNICATION Demonstrate effective and polished written and oral communication skills.
• HISTORY + THEORY Apply knowledge of the history of interiors, architecture, decorative arts, and art to design work.
• DESIGN ELEMENTS + PRINCIPLES Apply elements and principles of design.
• LIGHT + COLOR Apply the principles and theories of light and color effectively in relation to environmental impact and human wellbeing.
• PRODUCTS + MATERIALS Create design solutions that integrate furnishings, products, materials, and finishes.
• ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS + HUMAN WELLBEING Apply the principles of acoustics, thermal comfort, indoor air quality and water and waste management in relation to environmental impact and human well-being.
• CONSTRUCTION Understand interior construction and its interrelationship with base building construction and systems.
• REGULATIONS + GUIDELINES Apply laws, codes, standards, and guidelines that impact human experience of interior spaces.

ID 4000 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Portfolios for Interior Designers: A Guide to Portfolios, Creative Resumes, + the Job Search - ISBN: 9780470408162

ID 4611 - Interior Design Internship Program Part I

Required textbooks from this course are also used in ID4612.

• Recognize the role and value of life-long learning.
• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Understand the relationship between the natural, built, virtual, and technological environments as they relate to the human experience, wellbeing, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply wayfinding techniques to design solutions.

ID 4611 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life - ISBN: 9780399144462

The Interior Design Intern - ISBN: 9781563679070

ID 4612 - Interior Design Internship Program Part II

Required textbooks from this course are also used in ID4611.

• Recognize the role and value of legal recognition for the profession.
• Define the contexts for interior design practice.
• Define the impact of a global market on design practices.
• Define the breadth and depth of interior design’s impact and value.
• Define the components of business practice.
• Understand types of professional business formations.
• Engage with role models who are qualified by education and experience in interior design.
• Recognize the role and value of life-long learning.
• Recognize the role and value of public service.

ID 4612 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life - ISBN: 9780399144462

The Interior Design Intern - ISBN: 9781563679070

ID 4715 - Advanced Building Information Modeling: Revit

• Understand professional ethics and conduct.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.
• Read and interpret base- building construction documents.
• Contribute to the production of interior contract documents including drawings, detailing, schedules, and specifications appropriate to project size and scope.

ID 4715 Course Learning Outcome Rubric   

 

Required Textbooks:
Revit Architecture 2020 for Designers 4th Edition, Douglas R. Seidler, ISBN 978-1501352980

ID 4883 - Senior Project III: Construction Documents

• Recognize the environmental impact of construction.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by base-building structural systems and construction methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by interior systems, construction, and installation methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by detailing and specification of interior construction materials, products, and finishes.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by the integration of building systems including electrical (such as power, data, lighting, telecommunications, audio visual) and mechanical (such as HVAC, plumbing, and sprinklers).
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by monitoring systems pertaining to energy, security, and building controls systems.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.
• Understand the formats, components, and accepted standards for an integrated and comprehensive set of interior construction documents.
• Read and interpret base- building construction documents.
• Contribute to the production of interior contract documents including drawings, detailing, schedules, and specifications appropriate to project size and scope.
• Apply federal, state/provincial, and local codes including fire and life safety.
• Apply barrier-free and accessibility regulations and guidelines.

ID 4883 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Interior Construction + Detailing for Designers + Architects, 6th Edition - ISBN: 9781591264200

Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors, 3rd Edition - ISBN: 9781118944356
Required Course Materials:

• (3) Ring binder
• Basic drafting equipment and /or AutoCAD/Revit
• Roll of trace paper
• Redlining pens

IDSD 2860 - Sustainable Residential Design

The textbook Designing for Privacy + Related Needs is also used in IDSD 2870 and IDSD 4870.

• Understand how social, economic, cultural, and physical contexts inform interior design.
• Understand how systems thinking informs the practice of interior design.
• Reconize current and relevant events that are shaping contemporary society and the world.
• Recognize a variety of cultural norms.
• Demonstrate multi-cultural awareness.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively collaborate with multiple disciplines in developing design solutions.
• Define the breadth and depth of interior design’s impact and value.
• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Understand the relationship between the natural, built, virtual, and technological environments as they relate to the human experience, wellbeing, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply wayfinding techniques to design solutions.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize a range of problem identification and problem solving methods.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Recognize methods of idea generation and design thinking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in oral communication.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Recognize evolving communication technologies.
• Competently select and apply luminaires and light sources.
• Understand color terminology.
• Understand color principles, theories, and systems.
• Understand color in relation to materials, textures, light, and form.
• Appropriately select and apply color to support design concepts.
• Appropriately select and apply color to multiple design functions.
• Appropriately use color solutions across different modes of design communication.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand typical fabrication, installation methods, and maintenance requirements.
• Understand appropriate design or specification of products and materials in relation to project criteria and human and environmental wellbeing.
• Select and apply products and materials on the basis of their properties and performance criteria, including ergonomics, environmental attributes, life safety, and life cycle cost.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.
• Recognize the origins and intent of laws, codes, and standards.

IDSD 2860 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Residential Design Studio - ISBN: 9781563678417

Designing for Privacy + Related Needs - ISBN: 9781563673405

IDSD 2870 - Sustainable Holistic Design

The textbook Designing for Privacy + Related Needs is also used in IDSD 2860 and IDSD 4870.

• Understand that human and environmental conditions vary according to geographic location and impact design and construction decisions.
• Understand how social, economic, cultural, and physical contexts inform interior design.
• Understand how systems thinking informs the practice of interior design.
• Recognize current and relevant events that are shaping contemporary society and the world.
• Recognize a variety of cultural norms.
• Demonstrate multi-cultural awareness.
• Recognize the integration of multi-disciplinary collaboration in design practice.
• Understand the dynamics of team collaboration and the distribution and structure of team responsibilities.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively collaborate with multiple disciplines in developing design solutions.
• Define the contexts for interior design practice.
• Define the components of business practice.
• Understand professional ethics and conduct.
• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Understand the relationship between the natural, built, virtual, and technological environments as they relate to the human experience, well-being, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply way finding techniques to design solutions.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to synthesize information to generate evidence-based design solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize a range of problem identification and problem-solving methods.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Recognize methods of idea generation and design thinking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Demonstrate active listening skills in the context of professional collaboration.
• Understand the elements and principles of design, including spatial definition and organization.
• Demonstrate the ability to explore a range of two- and three-dimensional design solutions using a variety of media.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to two-dimensional design solutions.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Understand color terminology.
• Understand color principles, theories, and systems.
• Understand color in relation to materials, textures, light, and form.
• Appropriately select and apply color to support design concepts.
• Appropriately select and apply color to multiple design functions.
• Appropriately use color solutions across different modes of design communication.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand the principles of indoor air quality.
• Understand how the selection and application of products and systems impact indoor air quality.

IDSD 2870 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Environmental Psychology for Design - ISBN: 9781501321801

Designing for Privacy + Related Needs - ISBN: 9781563673405
Required Course Materials:

• Drawing Media-drafting pencils and pens
• Rolls of trace paper (“bum wad” or “trash”)
• Scale
• Straight edge
• Sketchbook
• Model making materials-paper, glue, tape, x-acto knife and blades, matte board, chipboard, cardboard, etc.
• Drafting Tools
• Markers
• Vellum
• Computer-drafting and adobe suite programs

IDSD 3200 - Sustainable Design Strategies + Technologies

The textbooks Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science + Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life and Green Studio Handbook, 2nd Edition are also used in IDSD 4200.

• Develop a comprehensive interior design project based on project intent, instructor guidance and in accordance with the CIDA indicators provided for this course.
• Conduct research and develop sustainable design strategies for existing spaces and new projects.
• Analyze and research-built projects that address sustainable design through high tech and low-tech strategies and budget parameters.
• Identify and qualify sustainable products and processes in order to develop effective design solutions.
• Conduct a “green analysis” of an existing commercial building and make recommendations for effective sustainable changes.
• Develop a working knowledge of how sustainable design principles, processes and products may be integrated effectively into the design of the built environment.
• Explore how Need for Nature Theories may be used as a premise for the design of the built environment in order to maintain optimum physical and emotional health and well-being.
• Analyze Green Design issues from all angles in an effort to increase the likelihood of making choices that are best for each individual project.

The Green Studio Handbook - ISBN: 9780080890524

IDSD 3845 - Sustainable Hospitality Design

• Understand how social, economic, cultural, and physical contexts inform interior design.
• Understand how systems thinking informs the practice of interior design.
• Recognize current and relevant events that are shaping contemporary society and the world.
• Recognize a variety of cultural norms.
• Demonstrate multi-cultural awareness.
• Understand technologically- based collaboration methods specific to the problem-solving process for built environment disciplines.
• Understand the dynamics of team collaboration and the distribution and structure of team responsibilities.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively collaborate with multiple disciplines in developing design solutions.
• Define the contexts for interior design practice.
• Define the impact of a global market on design practices.
• Understand the instruments of service such as contract documents, transmittals, schedules, budgets, and specifications.
• Engage in career opportunities an interior design education can afford and the options for advanced study.
• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Understand the relationship between the natural, built, virtual, and technological environments as they relate to the human experience, well being, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to synthesize information to generate evidence-based design solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize a range of problem identification and problem-solving methods.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Recognize methods of idea generation and design thinking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Recognize evolving communication technologies.
• Demonstrate active listening skills in the context of professional collaboration.
• Understand the elements and principles of design, including spatial definition and organization.
• Demonstrate the ability to explore a range of two- and three-dimensional design solutions using a variety of media.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to two-dimensional design solutions.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Recognize the environmental impact of illumination strategies and decisions.
• Understand the principles of natural and artificial lighting design.
• Recognize a range of sources for information and research about color.
• Understand how light and color in the interior environment impact health, safety, and well being.
• Understand color terminology.
• Understand color principles, theories, and systems.
• Understand color in relation to materials, textures, light, and form.
• Appropriately select and apply color to support design concepts.
• Appropriately select and apply color to multiple design functions.
• Appropriately use color solutions across different modes of design communication.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand appropriate design or specification of products and materials in relation to project criteria and human and environmental well being.
• Select and apply products and materials on the basis of their properties and performance criteria, including ergonomics, environmental attributes, life safety, and life cycle cost.
• Design and specify a broad range of appropriate products, materials, objects, and elements in support of the design intent.
• Understand the principles of acoustical design.
• Understand appropriate strategies for acoustical control.
• Recognize the environmental impact of construction.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by base-building structural systems and construction methods.
• Recognize the origins and intent of laws, codes, and standards.
• Understand standards and guidelines related to sustainability and wellness.

IDSD 3845 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Designing Commercial Interiors, 2nd Edition - ISBN: 9780471723493

Hotel Design, Planning, + Development, 2nd Edition - ISBN: 9780393733853
Required Course Materials:

• Roll of Trash/trace paper (“bum wad”)
• Drawing media (pens. Pencils, sharpies)
• Scale
• Straight Edge
• Sketchbook
• Model making materials-paper, glue, tape, x-acto knife and blades, matte board, chipboard, cardboard, ect
• Drafting tools
• Markers
• Vellum
• AutoCAD and Adobe suite and Revit

IDSD 3870 - Sustainable Office Design

• Define the contexts for interior design practice.
• Engage with role models who are qualified by education and experience in interior design.
• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• ID5 DESIGN PROCESS- Apply all aspects of the design process to creatively solve a design problem.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to synthesize information to generate evidence-based design solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize a range of problem identification and problem solving methods.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Recognize methods of idea generation and design thinking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in oral communication.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Understand the elements and principles of design, including spatial definition and organization.
• Demonstrate the ability to explore a range of two- and three-dimensional design solutions using a variety of media.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Recognize the environmental impact of illumination strategies and decisions.
• Understand the principles of natural and artificial lighting design.
• Understand strategies for using and modulating natural light.
• Competently select and apply luminaires and light sources.
• Appropriately use color solutions across different modes of design communication.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Select and apply products and materials on the basis of their properties and performance criteria, including ergonomics, environmental attributes, life safety, and life cycle cost.
• Design and specify a broad range of appropriate products, materials, objects, and elements in support of the design intent.
• Recognize the environmental impact of construction.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by base-building structural systems and construction methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by interior systems, construction, and installation methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by detailing and specification of interior construction materials, products, and finishes.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by the integration of building systems including electrical (such as power, data, lighting, telecommunications, audio visual) and mechanical (such as HVAC, plumbing, and sprinklers).
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by monitoring systems pertaining to energy, security, and building controls systems.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.
• Understand the formats, components, and accepted standards for an integrated and comprehensive set of interior construction documents.
• Read and interpret base- building construction documents.
• Contribute to the production of interior contract documents including drawings, detailing, schedules, and specifications appropriate to project size and scope.
• Recognize the origins and intent of laws, codes, and standards.
• Understand standards and guidelines related to sustainability and wellness.
• Understand sector-specific regulations and guidelines related to construction, products, and materials.
• Apply federal, state/provincial, and local codes including fire and life safety.
• Apply barrier-free and accessibility regulations and guidelines.

IDSD 3870 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Space Planning for Commercial Office Interiors - ISBN: 9781563679056

Codes Guidebook for Interiors - ISBN: 9780470592090
Required Course Materials:

• (3) Ring binder
• Basic drafting equipment and /or AutoCAD/Revit
• Roll of trace paper
• Redlining pens

IDSD 4200 - Sustainable Design Studio

• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize the environmental impact of illumination strategies and decisions.
• Understand how light and color in the interior environment impact health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand that design decisions relating to acoustics, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality impact human wellbeing and the environment.
• Understand the principles of indoor air quality.
• Understand how the selection and application of products and systems impact indoor air quality.
• Recognize the environmental impact of construction.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by base-building structural systems and construction methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by interior systems, construction, and installation methods.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by detailing and specification of interior construction materials, products, and finishes.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by the integration of building systems including electrical (such as power, data, lighting, telecommunications, audio visual) and mechanical (such as HVAC, plumbing, and sprinklers).
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by monitoring systems pertaining to energy, security, and building controls systems.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.

IDSD 4200 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science + Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life - ISBN: 9780470163344

Sun, Wind, + Light : Architecture Design Strategies, 3rd Edition - ISBN: 9780470945780

Green Studio Handbook, 2nd Edition - ISBN: 9780080890524

IDSD 4250 - Sustainable Design Senior Portfolio Review

The textbook Portfolios for Interior Designers: A Guide to Portfolios, Creative Resumes, + the Job Search is also used in ID4000.

• GLOBAL CONTEXT Apply a global view and consider social, cultural, economic, and ecological contexts in all aspects of their work.
• COLLABORATION Collaborate and participate in interdisciplinary teams.
• BUSINESS PRACTICES + PROFESSIONALISM Understand the principles and processes that define the profession and the value of interior design to society.
• HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN Apply knowledge of human experience and behavior to designing the built environment.
• DESIGN PROCESS Apply all aspects of the design process to creatively solve a design problem.
• COMMUNICATION Demonstrate effective and polished written and oral communication skills.
• HISTORY + THEORY Apply knowledge of the history of interiors, architecture, decorative arts, and art to design work.
• DESIGN ELEMENTS + PRINCIPLES Apply elements and principles of design.
• LIGHT + COLOR Apply the principles and theories of light and color effectively in relation to environmental impact and human wellbeing.
• PRODUCTS + MATERIALS Create design solutions that integrate furnishings, products, materials, and finishes.
• ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS + HUMAN WELLBEING Apply the principles of acoustics, thermal comfort, indoor air quality and water and waste management in relation to environmental impact and human well-being.
• CONSTRUCTION Understand interior construction and its interrelationship with base building construction and systems.
• REGULATIONS + GUIDELINES Apply laws, codes, standards, and guidelines that impact human experience of interior spaces.

IDSD 4250 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Design Portfolios: Presentation & Marketing for Interior Designers - ISBN: 9781501317248

Portfolios for Interior Designers: A Guide to Portfolios, Creative Resumes, + the Job Search - ISBN: 9780470408162

IDSD 4870 - Sustainable Special Use Design

The textbook Designing for Privacy + Related Needs is also used in IDSD 2860 and IDSD 2870.

• Understand that human and environmental conditions vary according to geographic location and impact design and construction decisions.
• Understand how social, economic, cultural, and physical contexts inform interior design.
• Understand how systems thinking informs the practice of interior design.
• Recognize current and relevant events that are shaping contemporary society and the world.
• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human-centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply way-finding techniques to design solutions.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to synthesize information to generate evidence-based design solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Recognize methods of idea generation and design thinking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in oral communication.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Understand the elements and principles of design, including spatial definition and organization.
• Demonstrate the ability to explore a range of two- and three-dimensional design solutions using a variety of media.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to two-dimensional design solutions.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Recognize the environmental impact of illumination strategies and decisions.
• Understand the principles of natural and artificial lighting design.
• Understand strategies for using and modulating natural light.
• Competently select and apply luminaires and light sources.
• Recognize a range of sources for information and research about color.
• Understand how light and color in the interior environment impact health, safety, and well-being.
• Understand color terminology.
• Appropriately select and apply color to support design concepts.
• Appropriately select and apply color to multiple design functions.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand typical fabrication, installation methods, and maintenance requirements.
• Understand appropriate design or specification of products and materials in relation to project criteria and human and environmental well-being.
• Select and apply products and materials on the basis of their properties and performance criteria, including ergonomics, environmental attributes, life safety, and life cycle cost.
• Design and specify a broad range of appropriate products, materials, objects, and elements in support of the design intent.
• Understand that design decisions relating to acoustics, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality impact human well-being and the environment.
• Understand the principles of acoustical design.
• Understand appropriate strategies for acoustical control.
• Understand the principles of thermal design.
• Understand the principles of indoor air quality.
• Understand how the selection and application of products and systems impact indoor air quality.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by monitoring systems pertaining to energy, security, and building controls systems.
• Understand how design solutions affect and are impacted by vertical and horizontal systems of transport and circulation such as stairs, elevators, or escalators.
• Understand the formats, components, and accepted standards for an integrated and comprehensive set of interior construction documents.
• Read and interpret base-building construction documents.
• Contribute to the production of interior contract documents including drawings, detailing, schedules, and specifications appropriate to project size and scope.
• Recognize the origins and intent of laws, codes, and standards.
• Understand standards and guidelines related to sustainability and wellness.
• Understand sector-specific regulations and guidelines related to construction, products, and materials.
• Apply federal, state/provincial, and local codes including fire and life safety.

IDSD 4870 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Designing for Privacy + Related Needs - ISBN: 9781563673405

Building Type Basics for Senior Living - ISBN: 9781118007457
Required Course Materials:

• Roll of trace paper
• Scale
• Sharpies

IDSD 4881 - Senior Project I: Sustainable Design Research

• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Demonstrate active listening skills in the context of professional collaboration.
• Recognize a range of sources for information and research about color.
• Understand how light and color in the interior environment impact health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Understand color terminology.
• Understand appropriate design or specification of products and materials in relation to project criteria and human and environmental wellbeing.
• Design and specify a broad range of appropriate products, materials, objects, and elements in support of the design intent.
• Recognize the origins and intent of laws, codes, and standards.
• Understand standards and guidelines related to sustainability and wellness.
• Understand sector-specific regulations and guidelines related to construction, products, and materials.
• Apply federal, state/provincial, and local codes including fire and life safety.
• Apply barrier-free and accessibility regulations and guidelines.

IDSD 4881 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Evidence Based Design: A Process for Research and Writing by DAK Kopec ISBN: 9780132174060

Interior Designer’s Portable Handbook, 3rd Edition - ISBN: 9780071782067
Required Course Materials:

• Roll of Trash/trace paper (“bum wad”)
• Digital Camera
• Drawing media (pens. Pencils, sharpies)
• Scale
• Basic drafting equipment and /or AutoCAD/Revit

IDSD 4882 - Senior Project II: Sustainable Design Project

The textbook Interior Designer’s Portable Handbook is also used in IDSD 4881.

• Understand that human and environmental conditions vary according to geographic location and impact design and construction decisions.
• Understand how social, economic, cultural, and physical contexts inform interior design.
• Understand how systems thinking informs the practice of interior design.
• Recognize current and relevant events that are shaping contemporary society and the world.
• Understand the terminology and language necessary to communicate effectively with members of allied disciplines.
• Define the breadth and depth of interior design’s impact and value.
• Understand the relationship between the natural, built, virtual, and technological environments as they relate to the human experience, well being, behavior, and performance.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply way finding techniques to design solutions.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to synthesize information to generate evidence-based design solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize a range of problem identification and problem solving methods.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in oral communication.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Recognize evolving communication technologies.
• Demonstrate active listening skills in the context of professional collaboration.
• Understand the basic context and framework of history as it relates to Interior Design.
• Understand the basic context and framework of history as it relates to furniture, decorative arts, and material culture
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to explore and iterate multiple ideas.
• Understand the basic context and framework of history as it relates to architecture.
• Understand the basic context and framework of history as it relates to art.
• Understand the elements and principles of design, including spatial definition and organization.
• Demonstrate the ability to explore a range of two- and three-dimensional design solutions using a variety of media.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to two-dimensional design solutions.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Recognize the environmental impact of illumination strategies and decisions.
• Understand the principles of natural and artificial lighting design.
• Understand strategies for using and modulating natural light.
• Competently select and apply luminaires and light sources.
• Understand color principles, theories, and systems.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand typical fabrication, installation methods, and maintenance requirements.
• Understand appropriate design or specification of products and materials in relation to project criteria and human and environmental well being.

IDSD 4882 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Interior Designer’s Portable Handbook, 3rd Edition - ISBN: 9780071782067
Required Course Materials:

• Roll of Trash/trace paper (“bum wad”)
• Digital Camera
• Drawing media (pens. Pencils, sharpies)
• Scale
• Basic drafting equipment and /or AutoCAD/Revit

IL 1000 - Freshman Drawing Portfolio for Illustrators

• Communicate realistic form and value structure within a composition. 
• Depict accurate human proportions.
• Use linear perspective to communicate an accurate sense of space and depth.

IL 1000 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

IL 1225 - Fundamentals of Illustration

• Develop technical ability in drawing, rendering, and presentation. 
• Implement the design process and ideation strategies to develop well-designed ideas. 
• Expand visual knowledge and the ability to recognize effective design.

IL 1225 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
None
Required Course Materials:

• Sketchbook, and or Notebook for research
• Pencils (a wide range from the Hs to the Bs)
• Eraser (kneaded, and or electric)
• Tracing paper (suggested size 11x17)
• Camera (for photo reference) 
• Props, models, maquettes 
• Artist tape (black is preferred, also used for presentation) 
• Photocopier/Printer/Scanner (available on campus) 
• Straight edge/Ruler
• Charcoal (B Pencils)
• Transfer paper (Graphite, not carbon copy) OR Lighter fluid/Soft rag
• Gesso
• Board cut to size (wooden panel) OR Heavy Weight, Cold Press, Illustration Board (Crescent 110) 
• Acrylic paints 5+
• Stay-wet palette system
• Brushes: 5+
• Clean up rags OR Paper Towels
• Water container
• Retarder medium (optional)
• Spray bottle (this will help a lot)
• Palette Knife (optional) 
• Mat board
• Foam core 

IL 1510 - Perspective

• Demonstrate the principles and tools involved in three-dimensional construction from a particular viewpoint.
• Define and use key terms in the study of perspective.
• Demonstrate an understanding of perspective through exercises and studio projects, using a combination of freehand drawings and digital applications.

IL 1510 Course Learning Outcome Rubric   

Required Textbooks:
ON-CAMPUS: Basic Perspective Drawing, A Visual Approach - ISBN: 978-1118134146
Required Course Materials:

• Ruler
• Spray Fix
• Sketchbook
• Tracing Paper Pad and/or Drafting Film
• Masking Tape
• Graphite Pencils (1-4)
• Large Pad (Sketch)
• India Ink
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub);
• Drawing Paper (Specialty)
• Digital Camera/Smart Phone
• Drafting Tools (T-Square, Triangle, etc)

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 2520 - Illustration Media

• Explore new media and experiment with alternative surfaces and tools, including digital media.
• Combine media and drawing styles to create innovative visual images.
• Apply various media techniques efficiently.

IL 2520 Course Learning Outcome Rubric   

Required Course Materials:

• Exacto Knife & Blades (or Utility Knife)
• Spray Fix
• Sketchbook
• Masking Tape
• Tracing Paper Pad and/or Drafting Film
• Graphite Pencils (1-4)
• India Ink
• Pen & Ink Pen Nibs Set
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub);
• Drawing Extras (blending stump, sandpaper, etc)
• Gauche Paint (5 or more)
• Colored Pencils ( qty. 1-4)
• Plate Bond
• Illustration Board (5 or more)
• Watercolor or Acrylic Synthetic Brushes (5 or more)
• Acrylic Paints (5 or more)
• Acrylic Pallette
• Oil Paints (5 or more)
• Oil or Acryic Mediums (glazing, drying, mixing, etc.)
• Super Sculpey Modeling Clay (1 lb)
• Sculpture Hand Tools
• Sculpture Armature Items (wire, foil, tacks, etc.)
• Pastel Set (Color)

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 2550 - Life Drawing III: Human Anatomy

• Explore the expressive possibilities of the figure through gesture drawings.
• Apply advanced understanding of chiarascuro, human proportion, and anatomy to accurate figurative & anatomical drawings.
• Demonstrate observation and constructive drawing methods.
• Identify all basic anatomical landmarks, structures, and muscles of the body.
• Apply the expressive possibilities of the figure to large scale drawings using dry media such as conté, pastels, and charcoal.

IL 2550 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Classic Human Anatomy - ISBN: 978-0823024155
Required Course Materials:

• Exacto Knife & Blades (or Utility Knife)
• Spray Fix
• Sketchbook
• Tracing Paper Pad and/or Drafting Film
• Graphite Pencils (1-4)
• Charcoal Pencils or Conte (5 or more)
• Vine Charcoal
• Markers, Black & White (1-4)
• Pastel Set (Color)
• Drawing Board w/Clips
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub);
• Drawing Extras (blending stump, sandpaper, etc)
• Plate Bond
• Large Pad (Sketch)
• Drawing Paper (Specialty)
• Illustration Board (1-4)
• Watercolor or Acrylic Synthetic Brushes (5 or more)
• Painting Extras (rags, towels, pallette knife, etc.) 
• India Ink

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 2560 - Still Life Painting

• Demonstrate the basics of observational painting in acrylic paint, using still life as subject matter.
• Apply color theory and pictorial composition using materials such as acrylics or oil and methods used historically by artists with similar representational aims.
• Demonstrate the ability to accurately paint from observation and apply lighting to show texture

IL 2560 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ONLINE: DK Art School: An Introduction to Acrylics - ISBN: 9780789432872

ONLINE: “The North Light Book of Acrylic Painting Techniques” - ISBN: 978-0891345756
Required Course Materials:

• Spray Fix
• Sketchbook
• Masking Tape
• Tracing Paper Pad and/or Drafting Film
• Color Wheel
• Charcoal Pencils or Conte (1-4)
• Vine Charcoal
• Drawing Board w/Clips
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub) 
• Illustration Board (1-4)
• Canvas Boards/Canvas
• Watercolor or Acrylic Synthetic Brushes (5 or more)
• Painting Extras (rags, towels, pallette knife, etc.)
• Acrylic Paints (5 or more)
• Acrylic Palette
• Oil or Acrylic Mediums (glazing, drying, mixing, etc.)
• Brush Cleaner/Thinner
• Binder, Notebook and/or Plastic Sleeves
• Viewfinder 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 2575 - Illustration I

The textbook Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist is also used in IL3250, IL3595, and IL4551.

• Apply problem-solving methodology such as the use of thumbnails, visual reference, research and ideation to convey a story to an audience.
• Demonstrate effective use of compositional devices and techniques in creating unique narrative illustrations.
• Demonstrate technical proficiency in various media.
• Analyze the visual style of contemporary professional illustrators.

IL 2575 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist, James Gurney - ISBN: 9780740785504
Required Course Materials:

• Ruler
• Sketchbook
• Masking Tape
• Tracing Paper Pad and/or Drafting Film
• Graphite Pencils (1-4)
• Charcoal Pencils or Conte (1-4)
• Markers, Black & White (1-4)
• India Ink
• Pen & Ink Pen Nibs Set
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub)
• Drawing Extras (blending stump, sandpaper, etc)
• Illustration Board (1-4)
• Digital Camera/Smart Phone 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 2710 - Sequential Art I

• Apply the basics processes of sequential illustration, i.e., a series of drawings that tell a story that takes place through time.
• Implement anatomy, gesture, costume, props, and background into the sequential illustration process.
• Integrate the basics of perspective into composition for sequential illustration.

IL 2710 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ON-CAMPUS: Comics + Sequential Art: Principles + Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist - ISBN: 9780393331264

ON-CAMPUS: Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga + Graphic Novels - ISBN: 9780060780944
Required Course Materials:

• Ruler
• Masking Tape
• Tracing Paper Pad and/or Drafting Film
• Graphite Pencils (1-4)
• Markers, Black & White (1-4)
• India Ink
• Pen & Ink Pen Nibs Set erasers (kneaded, magic rub)
• Plate Bond 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 2715 - Sequential Art II

• Develop a personal language of Sequential Illustration.
• Practice compositional skills in pencil and ink.
• Demonstrate advanced skills in sequential art.
• Research the uses of storytelling techniques in sequential media.
• Analyze the sequential art industry to identify trends and opportunities. 

IL 2715 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures  ISBN: 9781596431317

Unnatural Talent: Creating, Printing + Selling Your Comic in the Digital Age - ISBN: 9781493758296
Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

IL 2750 - Life Drawing IV

• Implement storytelling techniques in composition, using various media.
• Demonstrate advanced skills in drawing human anatomy from observation.
• Apply the expressive possibilities of the head and hands to large scale drawings.
• Analyze the commercial potential of drawing within the contemporary art market.

IL 2750 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ON-CAMPUS: The Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expression - ISBN: 9780823004324

ON-CAMPUS: Drawing the Human Head - ISBN: 978-0823013760
Required Course Materials:

• Exacto Knife & Blades (or Utility Knife)
• Spray Fix
• Sketchbook
• Masking Tape
• Graphite Pencils (5 or more)
• Charcoal Pencils or Conte (5 or more)
• Vine Charcoal
• Pastel Set (Color)
• India Ink
• Drawing Board w/Clips
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub)
• Drawing Extras (blending stump, sandpaper, etc)
• Plate Bond
• Large Pad (Sketch)
• Drawing Paper (Specialty)
• Toned Paper (5 or more)
• Watercolor or Acrylic Synthetic Brushes (5 or more) 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 2840 - Animal Anatomy + Drawing

• Execute anatomical studies of wildlife skeletal and muscle structure, and demonstrate the resulting knowledge in expressive and constructive animal drawings.
• Implement storytelling techniques in a final composition of an imaginary hybrid animal.

IL 2840 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ONLINE: An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists - ISBN: 9780486200828

ONLINE: How to Draw Animals - ISBN: 9780399508028
Required Course Materials:

• Sketchbook
• Graphite Pencils (1-4) 
• Markers, Black & White (1-4)
• Colored Pencils ( qty. 1-4)
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub)
• Plate Bond
• Illustration Board (1-4) 
• Tracing Paper 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 2850 - Figurative Sculpture

• Demonstrate the basic sculptural practices of three-dimensional structure, plane, anatomical proportion, volume, lighting and gesture.
• Develop an accurate portrait bust based on the model.

IL 2850 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
The Artist’s Way - ISBN: 9781585421473
Required Course Materials:

• Sketchbook
• Markers, Black & White (1-4)
• Sculpture Hand Tools
• Wed Clay (30 lbs)
• Clay Extras (t-shirts, trash bags, clipboard) 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 3000 - Illustration Junior Portfolio Review

• Organize and present a junior-level portfolio representing program outcomes, and evincing readiness to move into advanced courses in the major.

IL 3000 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

IL 3100 - Life Painting I

• Demonstrate basic life painting skills.
• Students understand basic topics in life painting for Illustrators, i.e., understanding of tonal keys, light/dark, warm/cool, and chromatic color relationships, as well as a good grasp of gesture, anatomy, proportion, and composition.
• Develop a personal style while utilizing the above principles.

IL 3100 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Classical Painting Atelier - ISBN: 9780823006588
Required Course Materials:

• Spray Fix
• Sketchbook
• Masking Tape
• Color Wheel
• Charcoal Pencils or Conte (1-4) erasers (kneaded, magic rub) 
• Large Pad (Sketch)
• Canvas Boards/Canvas
• Oil or Acrylic Bristle Brushes (5 or more)
• Painting Extras (rags, towels, palette knife, etc.) 
• Acrylic Paints (1-4)
• Oil Paints (5 or more)
• Oil Palette
• Oil or Acrylic Mediums (glazing, drying, mixing, etc.) 
• Brush Cleaner/Thinner
• Digital Camera/Smart Phone
• Viewfinder 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 3250 - Life Painting II

• Demonstrate the use of tone and color relationships: tonal keys, light/dark, warm/cool, saturation, and color schemes.
• Use oil paints to effectively portray the human figure.
• Express personal style using the principles of life painting.
• Apply advanced drawing/design skills in gesture, anatomy, proportion, and composition.

IL 3250 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
ON CAMPUS: Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist - ISBN: 9780740785504

ONLINE: The Big Book of the Human Figure - ISBN: 9781438003436
Required Course Materials:

• Spray Fix 
• Sketchbook Masking 
• Tape Color Wheel
• Charcoal Pencils or Conte (1-4) erasers (kneaded, magic rub)
• Large Pad (Sketch)
• Canvas Boards/Canvas
• Oil or Acrylic Bristle Brushes (5 or more) 
• Painting Extras (rags, towels, palette knife, etc.) 
• Acrylic Paints (1-4)
• Oil Paints (5 or more)
• Oil Palette 
• Oil or Acrylic Mediums (glazing, drying, mixing, etc.) 
• Brush Cleaner/Thinner
• Digital Camera/Smart Phone
• Viewfinder 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 3580 - Landscape Painting

• Create well-composed landscapes
• Demonstrate thoughtful color application, designed for realism, atmosphere, and mood in landscape.
• Apply drawing principles of chiaroscuro, and atmospheric and linear perspective to landscape
• paintings.
• Implement storytelling techniques in composition.

IL 3580 Course Learning Outcome Rubric   

Required Textbooks:
ONLINE: Landscape Painting Inside & Out - ISBN: 9781600619083

ONLINE: Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green (2002 edition)  - ISBN: 9780891346227
Required Course Materials:

• Sketchbook
• Color Wheel
• Charcoal Pencils or Conte (1-4) 
• Vine Charcoal
• Markers, Black & White (1-4)
• Pastel Set (Color)
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub)
• Drawing Extras (blending stump, sandpaper, etc) 
• Canvas Boards/Canvas
• Oil or Acrylic Bristle Brushes (5 or more)
• Painting Extras (rags, towels, palette knife, etc.) 
• Oil Paints or Acrylic Paints (5 or more)
• Oil Palette
• Oil or Acrylic Mediums (glazing, drying, mixing, etc.) 
• Brush Cleaner/Thinner
• Digital Camera/Smart Phone
• Viewfinder
• Easel 

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 3595 - Illustration II

The textbook Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist is also used in IL2575, IL3250, and IL4551.

• Apply ideation methods to develop dynamic and original illustrations.
• Analyze non-fiction stories in illustrations which create unique visual solutions.
• Use visual metaphor in illustrations to communicate narrative to a specific audience.
• Implement visual and verbal problem-solving skills in illustrations to communicate to a specific, defined, audience.
• Experiment with digital media to create unique images.

IL 3595 Course Learning Outcome Rubric   

Required Textbooks:
ON-CAMPUS: Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist, James Gurney  ISBN 978-0740785504

This text is recommended for ONLINE students.
Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

• Sketchbook
• Tracing Paper Pad and/or Drafting Film
• Graphite Pencils (1-4)
• Vine Charcoal
• Markers, Black & White (1-4)
• Pastel Set (Color)
• India Ink
• erasers (kneaded, magic rub)
• Large Pad (Sketch)
• Illustration Board (1-4)
• Watercolor or Acrylic Synthetic Brushes (5 or more) 
• Acrylic Paints (5 or more)
• Brush Cleaner/Thinner 
• Digital Camera/Smart Phone 

IL 3601 - Illustration Internship Part I

IL 3602 - Illustration Internship Part II

IL 3650 - Children’s Book Illustration I

• Apply the process of designing and illustrating a children’s picture book from manuscript.
• Demonstrate an understanding of publisher expectations for illustrating a picture book.
• Refine drawing, design, color, composition and storytelling skills for children’s books.
• Demonstrate an understanding of selected historic and current children’s book illustrators.

IL 3650 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

IL 3655 - Character Design

• Demonstrate professional character design and presentation skills used in film, video games and the comic book industry.
• Analyze and produce compelling and dynamic characters from written descriptions and stories using basic and advanced theories of design.

IL 3655 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ON-CAMPUS: The Silver Way - ISBN: 978-1-62465-0-345

ONLINE: Force: Character Design from Life Drawing - ISBN: 9780240809939
Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

IL 3700 - Topics in Illustration

IL 3850 - Digital Illustration I

• Apply the basic tools and techniques of digital media to various story-based projects.
• Combine traditional illustration skills and materials with digital media
• Cultivate the on-going ability to research and learn digital processes

IL 3850 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

IL 3895 - Illustration III

• Implement advanced storytelling techniques in composition.
• Apply advanced skills in drawing, character development, and applying color to narrative illustrations.
• Create illustrations based on analysis and interpretation of text, using a combination of traditional and digital methods.  

IL 3895 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

IL 4450 - Illustration Marketing

• Create a marketing plan and materials reflecting individual career goals and visual style.
• Employ digital and traditional marketing modalities to advertise the illustration brand.
• Research and analyze target audience for illustration services.

IL 4450 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook Pricing & Ethical Guidelines 15th Edition - ISBN: 9781507206683

ONLINE: Art Money Success, Maria Brophy - ISBN 9780999011508
Required Course Materials:
Hosting Solution for Personal Website

IL 4551 - Digital Illustration II

• Demonstrate understanding of Photoshop for professional set-up and completion of full-color digital paintings.
• Experiment with digital media to create unique visual solutions.
• Apply advanced tools and techniques of digital media to various story-based projects.

IL 4551 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ON-CAMPUS: Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist - ISBN: 978-0740785504
Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

IL 4600 - People, Places + Things: Elements of Concept Art I

• Develop skills in both traditional and digital concept art.
• Investigate character, prop and environmental design.
• Demonstrate skills in preproduction art for animation, game art and film.

IL 4600 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ONLINE: Character Mentor: Learn by Example to Use Expressions, Poses, and Staging to Bring Your Characters to Life - ISBN: 9781136147371

ONLINE: Mechanika: Creating the Art of Science Fiction with Doug Chiang by Doug Chiang - ISBN: 978-1600610233
Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

IL 4620 - People, Places + Things: Elements of Concept Art II

• Develop advanced storytelling skills in digital concept art.
• Create innovative preproduction art for animation, game art and film.
• Research and analyze the concept art industry to identify standards, trends, and opportunities.

IL 4620 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

IL 4640 - Typography for Illustration

• Identify and implement Typography vocabulary.
• Demonstrate basic skills in the application of Typography within the field of graphic design.
• Demonstrate an aesthetic awareness of letterforms as well as techniques and process to achieve expressive typography.
• Implement strategies for creating clear and concise visual communication, ideas, and themes through the use of typography.

IL 4640 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ONLINE: Thinking with Type, 2nd Revised + Expanded Edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students - ISBN: 978-1568989693
Required Course Materials:

• Ruler
• Sketchbook
• Graphite Pencils (1-4)

**Materials may vary depending on the instructor, make sure to check with your professor before purchasing.

IL 4650 - Children’s Book Illustration II

• Consider the publisher expectations in the process of designing and illustrating a children’s picture book from manuscript.
• Experiment with drawing style and media to create unique visual solutions for children’s literature.
• Students will be expected to have a working knowledge of selected historic and current children’s book illustrators.
• Apply advanced skills in illustration to create a children’s book prototype.

IL 4650 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ON-CAMPUS: Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market 2020: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published, 32nd Edition - ISBN: 978-1440301230

IL 4900 - Illustration Graduation Portfolio I

 

Prerequisites: IL 4450 - Illustration Marketing  

Notes: To be completed in the term prior to IL 4995 - Illustration Graduation Portfolio II  

• Demonstrate advanced thinking, planning, and storytelling abilities.
• Show improvement in illustration methods and materials.
• Imagine and incorporate an innovative style to finished illustrative work.

IL 4990 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing + Ethical Guidelines - ISBN: 978-0262542395
Required Course Materials:

• Optional Materials based on Student Preference
• Promotional Materials (cards, prints, etc.)
• Framing Materials for Graduation Exhibit

IL 4995 - Illustration Graduation Portfolio II

• Recognize the importance of individual style in the illustration marketplace.
• Create new work within their target market.
• Evaluate illustration business methodologies.
• Exercise time management and critical decision-making skills for multiple client-based projects.

IL 4995 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Course Materials:
Optional Materials based on Student Preference

Promotional Materials (cards, prints, etc.)

Framing Materials for Graduation Exhibit

ILD 3000 - Illustrative Design Junior Portfolio Review

Students demonstrate cultural competencies in recognizing the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social human factors that shape design decisions.

Students demonstrate communication competency in the ability to solve communication + design problems.

Students demonstrate communication competency in their understanding of basic business practices, including the ability to organize design projects and to work productively as a member of teams.

Students demonstrate communication competency in a strong use and proficiency in storytelling & communication.

Students demonstrate design competencies in understanding: symbolic representation, principles of visual organization/compositional theory and information hierarchy, and the proper use of typography and its various applications.

Students demonstrate design competencies in understanding art and design history, theory and criticism.

Students demonstrate design competencies in a strong use and proficiency in media and digital skills, and mechanical skills such as drawing and the use of value and color.

Students demonstrate design competencies in the ability to create and develop visual form in response to communication problems.

Students demonstrate design competencies in a strong sense of personal style.

Students demonstrate critical thinking skills in research and information gathering, analysis, generation of alternative solutions.

ILD 3000 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

ILD 4980 - Senior Illustrative Design Seminar

• Apply aesthetic theories to contemporary illustrative design problems.
• Develop an awareness of the power of visual materials, such as propaganda and advertising, within the sociocultural, political, philosophical and economic landscape.
• Synthesize the ethical implications of illustrative design and the associated responsibilities of the illustrative designer.
• Determine a contemporary issue that necessitates change, including requisite research methods and development of new ideas and strategies.
• Demonstrate the relationships between cultural, social, economic, and political policies and their impact on the contemporary challenges facing illustrative designers.

ILD 4980 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

ILD 4990 - Illustrative Design Graduation Portfolio

• Develop a complete personal branding system, a printed portfolio, an exhibition display of illustrative design work, a portfolio book and an online digital presence that includes social media.
• Exercise crucial time management and critical decision- making skills by planning and implementing the final presentation of design work.
• Solve communication problems through illustrative design.
• Apply research, information gathering and analysis to generate alternative solutions.
• Create prototypes, apply user testing and evaluate outcomes.
• Describe and respond to the audiences and contexts, which communication solutions must address.
• Recognize the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social human factors that shape human decisions.
• Create visual form in response to communication problems.
• Understand symbolic representation.
• Apply principles of visual organization/composi tion and information hierarchy.
• Apply typography properly in its various applications.
• Use industry-based tools in the creation, reproduction, and distribution of visual messages.
• Examine their position within illustration and design history, theory, and criticism.

ILD 4990 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

MA 1205 - College Algebra

• Understand algebra and functions in problem solving and modeling.
• Understand quantitative literacy skills.
• Understand examples of quantitative needs in other disciplines inside and outside the realm of academia.

MA 1205 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ON CAMPUS: Aufmann Introductory Algebra Paperback Student Support Edition - ISBN: 9781133365433

ONLINE: College Algebra with Modeling & Visualization, 5th Edition - ISBN: 9780321833105

MA 1215 - Applied Mathematics

• Understand real numbers, basic algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.
• Understand the philosophy of mathematics in the context of art and design.
• Understands basic math calculations.
• Understands the importance of mathematics for creative fields of study.

MA 1215 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Mathematical Ideas, 12th Edition - ISBN: 9780321693815

MA 1220 - Financial Principles + Practices

• Understands Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to identify the difference between assets, liabilities and net worth, along with analyzing, recording and reporting financial information for service organizations using Microsoft Excel.
• Understands the chart of accounts in day-to-day transactions to record general journal transactions, post to the general ledger and create a trial balance.
• Understands accounting worksheets (incorporating adjustments) based on the company trial balance.
• Understands the difference between an income statement, statement of owner’s equity, and balance sheet.
• Understands an income statement, statement of owner’s equity and balance sheet from an adjusted trial balance or worksheet.
• Understands company closing entries to the general journal and general ledger, culminating with a post-closing trial balance.

MA 1220 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
Accounting Principles, 12th Edition., Weygant, Kimmel, Kieso - ISBN: 9781118875056

MA 1221 - The Art of Math

• Understand how to apply mathematics logically and critically to analysis.
• Understand mathematical patterns.
• Understand the different branches of mathematics.
• Understand mathematics as a problem-solving tool.
• Understand the importance of mathematics in society, nature, the arts and design.
• Understand the connect of mathematics to the student’s field of study.

MA 1221 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

MA 1230 - Statistics

• Understand how data is collected, analyzed, and illustrated.
• Understand how to create graphs and charts using Excel.
• Understands descriptive statistics for sets of quantitative data.
• Understands fundamental inferential statistics for a set of data.
• Understands a variety of statistical analyses.

MA 1230 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life (5th edition, 2018))
by Jeffrey O. Bennett, William L. Briggs, Mario F. Triola
Pearson. ISBN: 9780134509884

MH 2020 - History of Popular Music

• Explain the musical, technological, commercial, and cultural significance of key milestones in the history of popular music.
• Evaluate popular music of past decades.
• Formulate historical connections to music styles relevant today.
• Analyze how the development of new recording technologies and media influenced musical styles.
• Explain through example how different folk or underground musical cultures have been influenced, accepted, appropriated, or excluded by the popular music industry.

MH 3120 - Musical Ethnography

• Apply critical listening skills to diverse music traditions in consideration of their cultural and contextual significance.
• Create written critical responses to ethnographic studies and recordings and present them orally.
• Critique, explain, and defend arguments about the music of diverse cultures from a perspective informed by ethnographic research and aware of issues concerning systemic bias and marginalization.

MH 3710 - History of Electronic Music

• Apply critical listening skills to diverse electronic music styles in consideration of technological, aesthetic, and cultural significance.
• Identify and explain the importance of key recordings and composers in electronic music history.
• Develop and defend arguments about the use of technology in making electronic music based on historical evidence and the contextual significance of specific works or artists.

MP 1000 - Music Production Styles + Analysis

• Formulate critical listening vocabulary.
• Evaluate instrumentation and musical arrangement for different production styles.
• Analyze and describe perception of audio spectrum and dynamics.
• Produce short recordings in specific musical styles.

MP 1100 - How Music Works

• Identify musical scales, keys, meter, intervals, and cadences.
• Analyze song form and basic harmonic progressions.
• Identify chord inversions.
• Evaluate musical dynamics, articulation changes, and non-chord tones.

MP 1110 - Theories of Musical Practice I

• Demonstrate diatonic chord functions and basic counterpoint.
• Identify rhythmic styles, syncopation, and meter.
• Analyze cadential motion in any key area.
• Create melodies and tonal chord progressions.

MP 1140 - Musicianship

• Identify pitch intervals and chord inversions.
• Perform notated diatonic melodies and chromatic intervals with voice.
• Perform notated diatonic melodies and chord progressions on keyboard.
• Identify diatonic melodies and chord changes by ear.
• Transcribe simple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic passages of music.

MP 1230 - Music Composition I

• Utilize melody and harmonic accompaniment to create tension, release, and musical form.
• Produce digital recordings of original music.
• Create lyrical/lexical meaning or programmatic narrative.

MP 1400 - How Digital Audio Works

• Record, edit, process, and export audio in alignment with digital audio theory.
• Produce libraries of recorded and synthesized sounds.
• Demonstrate basic Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) operations.

MP 1500 - How the Music Industry Works

• Evaluate music industry career options and case studies.
• Evaluate copyright violation and fair-use standards.
• Demonstrate project management and budgeting.
• Create professional writing examples.
• Analyze industry trends and growth areas.

MP 2110 - Theories of Musical Practice II

• Identify pivot chords & chromatic pre-dominant chords.
• Analyze modulations, secondary chord functions, 7th chords, and non-chord tones.
• Apply figured bass notation.
• Create 4-part harmony in multiple key areas.

MP 2140 - Critical Listening

• Demonstrate aural sensitivity to changes in pitch, loudness, timbre, and articulation.
• Justify critical listening and analysis of audible media using appropriate psychoacoustic descriptors.
• Explain basic mechanics, biology, and cognition processes involved in auditory perception.
• Evaluate and apply music production changes that reflect different modes of listening.

MP 2230 - Music Composition II

• Apply tonal and atonal contemporary composition techniques governing pitch, rhythm, and orchestration toward the creation of original electronic or acoustic compositions.
• Justify composition decisions based on historical examples.
• Produce a portfolio of creative work that highlights areas of musical focus and indicates an emerging individual style.

MP 2330 - Sound Design I: Synthesis

• Create sounds based on listening, analysis tools, and knowledge of synthesis types and control parameters.
• Evaluate historical conventions for sound design in various music styles.
• Create custom synthesized and sample-based instruments.

MP 2430 - Recording + Production I

• Apply compositional skill to produce remixes and original musical arrangements in a DAW.
• Create programmed MIDI tracks to control virtual instruments and synthesized sounds.
• Demonstrate basic multi-track recording, sampling, editing, comping, and sequencing skills.
• Apply appropriate gain staging, signal routing, and automation changes to multi-track projects.

MP 2510 - Music Copyright + Ethics

• Utilize professional resources to establish, maintain, and defend artist rights and ownership of intellectual property.
• Formulate ethical guidelines concerning fair use, music sampling, music sharing, and cultural appropriation.
• Evaluate music recording and publishing contracts and music licensing agreements on the basis of intellectual property rights, royalty rates, and exclusivity.

MP 3150 - Reharmonization Techniques

• Create new harmonic accompaniment for existing melodies in various musical styles.
• Demonstrate understanding of note spacing, voice leading, and non-chord tones.
• Apply borrowed, chromatic, and extended chords in accordance with specific music style.

MP 3220 - World Music Composition Resources

• Utilize research and knowledge about world music styles, composition and performance techniques, and cultural contexts to compose original music.
• Demonstrate thoughtful and creatively interesting applications of alternative tuning systems, scales, and rhythmic devices.
• Compose original music using instrumental sounds not commonly used in Western art, folk, or popular music traditions.

MP 3250 - Contemporary Styles: Arrangement + Orchestration

• Evaluate and thoughtfully apply arrangement and orchestration conventions for different styles of music.
• Utilize different instrumentation, dynamics, and articulation changes to arrange existing pieces of music.
• Justify creative orchestration decisions that juxtapose or hybridize stylistic conventions.

MP 3330 - Sound Design II: Creative DSP

• Create sounds based on listening, analysis tools, and knowledge of DSP techniques and control parameters.
• Evaluate historical conventions for effects processing in various music styles.
• Justify musical application of particular audio effects.

MP 3430 - Recording + Production II

• Apply microphone techniques and phase alignment/correction tools.
• Demonstrate advanced automation, modulation, spatial imaging, and signal routing techniques.
• Produce non-linear musical structures for multitrack audio and MIDI projects.
• Apply advanced quantization and rhythmic grooves.

MP 3510 - Music Business Administration

• Create budgets, production schedules, and contracts for collaborative music and recording industry projects.
• Apply basic accounting, business development, assessment, and project management skills.
• Demonstrate how to conduct market research, form business entities, and assess tax liability.
• Create a road map for career growth with specific and measurable goals.

MP 3630 - Film + Game Music Production

• Apply appropriate harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and orchestrational devices for a variety of programmatic and visual cues.
• Create leitmotifs, themes, and variations for specific characters, locations, and emotions.
• Demonstrate ability to compose to specific timings, pictorial cues, and in balance with diegetic sound.
• Utilize film and game industry workflows to complete composition, orchestration, recording, and production.

MP 3650 - Sound for Media I

• Apply foley techniques to record and sequence diegetic sound for visual media.
• Utilize synthesis, DSP, and sound effect library to achieve audio effects appropriate to visual context.
• Apply industry-specific workflows and technical standards in the recording, production, and delivery of audiovisual content.

MP 3750 - Computer Music Systems

• Create stable software instruments, audio effects, and interactive performance tools.
• Demonstrate understanding of abstraction, iteration, control messaging, and signal flow.
• Formulate programmatic structures to represent relevant musical concepts, including tuning and pitch relationships, rhythm, and dynamics.
• Apply music programming concepts and techniques toward the creation of novels sounds, musical patterns, or performance interactions.
• Utilize technical documentation and computer programming resources to debug code and solve implementation problems.

MP 3840 - Digital Performance I

• Perform original music in engaging ways using a combination of hardware and software tools.
• Create live performance tech setups that enable control of multiple instruments, accompaniment strategies for composed music, and improvisation.
• Produce DJ sets.
• Produce a portfolio of music performances that highlights particular creative and technical competencies and shows growth toward an emerging individual style.

MP 4230 - Music Composition III

• Create original compositions in various electroacoustic forms.
• Demonstrate ability to integrate real time audio processes into composition and in support of concept.
• Justify the use of particular techniques in alignment with musical intent and interpretive listening.
• Produce a portfolio of that highlights advanced composition, production, and post-production skill sets and demonstrates an emerging individual style.

MP 4430 - Mixing + Mastering

• Control audio spectrum, dynamics, and spatial imaging to produce balanced and emotionally engaging music.
• Justify mixing and mastering decisions based on reinforcement of creative priorities, psychoacoustic principles, and digital audio theory.
• Apply industry-specific workflows, style-appropriate techniques, and technical standards in the post-production and delivery of broadcast quality music.

MP 4450 - Advanced Audio Engineering

• Create immersive audio projects using multiple spatialization and multichannel sound reinforcement techniques.
• Produce audio utilizing analog and outboard signal processing hardware.
• Apply specialized hardware and software tools for loudspeaker and room correction, signal processing, and sound level management.

MP 4570 - Music Branding + Marketing

• Create a strategic brand positioning statement and a marketing plan for their music or audio projects.
• Demonstrate professional work through the curation and presentation of an online creative portfolio.
• Produce, master, and distribute original creative work in alignment with faculty approved graduation project proposal.
• Create a digital brand presence via the channels specified in a marketing plan.

MP 4650 - Sound for Media II

• Control audio spectrum, dynamics, and spatial imaging to produce balanced, realistic mixes.
• Justify mix decisions based on reinforcement of creative priorities, psychoacoustic principles, and digital audio theory.
• Apply industry-specific workflows and technical standards in the post-production and delivery of audiovisual content.

MP 4840 - Digital Performance II

• Produce a musical performance using real-time audiovisual control systems.
• Identify performance strengths and weaknesses and work strategically and/or collaboratively to maximize audience engagement.
• Utilize a non-standard physical object or instrument to control digital music and/or video materials.

MP 4900 - Special Topics in Music Production

• Create work that represents knowledge of the special topic and appreciation for the practical or creative applications of the technologies and methods discussed.

NS 2030 - Biology

• Understand the nature of science to critically assess media reports of science, pseudoscience, and non-science.
• Understand the diversity of living things.
• Understand ecological environments local to the student and in a global context.
• Understand the relevance of these ecosystems, as well as the biotic and abiotic components of these ecosystems.
• Understand the structures and purposes of these structures in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
• Understand cell structures to examples of changes in cell function.
• Understand basic structures of living things using concepts of homology.
• Understand the relationship of the structure of living things to its function.
• Understand the observations that lead to the theory of evolution by natural selection.
• Understand different types of selection.

NS 2030 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ON CAMPUS: Biology Science for Life - ISBN: 9780321767592

ONLINE: Campbell Biology: Concepts & Connections, 7th Edition - ISBN: 9780321696816

NS 2040 - Environmental Studies

• Understand the earth’s natural environment and its relationships with human activities
• Understand and implement scientific research methods to address environmental issues
• Understand the Earth’s major systems and how they function and are affected by human activities

NS 2040 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
ONLINE: Campbell Biology: Concepts & Connections, 7th Edition - ISBN: 9780321696816

NS 3050 - Human Ecology

• Understand human ecology and environmental studies.
• Understand ecosystems and what is meant by human agency in an ecosystem.
• Understand the terminology of environmental studies.
• Understand various cultural practices and beliefs about nature.
• Understand ecosystems at local and global levels and feedback loops.
• Understand Geologic Cycles, Population Biology, and Evolution Theories.
• Understand sustainable and unsustainable human interactions in ecosystems dealing with specific human ecology topics.

NS 3050 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
EBSCO link: Human Ecology EBook - Steiner et al. (2016)

NS 3100 - Acoustics of Music

• Explain how sound propagates through a medium and how musical instruments work to emit sound.
• Formulate sound absorption plans for different rooms and listening spaces.
• Demonstrate an acoustical understanding of tuning, scales, harmony, and common musical effects.
• Create a musical instrument.