Interior Design & Interior Architecture

UC Berkeley extension’s program in interior Design anD interior arChiteCtUre was
developed in response to a need to provide adult students with a comprehensive interior design education
that is of professional quality, affordable, and available to working individuals on a part-time basis.
The program supports the internationally accepted definition of an interior designer
as stated in the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER) standards and guidelines.
Our mission is specifically to produce such informed, skilled, and inspired designers with the educational
qualifications to become a Certified Interior Designer (CID) in the State of California.
In carrying out this mission, the UC Berkeley Extension Certificate Program in Interior Design
and Interior Architecture offers design education that combines studio courses with the study of design
theory, history, presentation skills, and resources.
the specific goals of this program are to:
■ Offer a curriculum comprising courses in design, design communication, and design
resources, serving to prepare students for entry into the profession
■ Prepare students to identify and solve problems and to respond to user needs with con-
cern for the function and quality of interior environments
■ Provide students with instructors who are practicing design professionals and who bring
to the program their personal commitment to design, an awareness of society and its
changing technologies, and the tools and methodologies essential to contemporary interior
design practice
■ Provide design education that can develop creative designers able to formulate, propose,
and carry out design solutions relevant to the needs of people and the environmen.







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