Curriculum and Instruction: Educational Computing, Design, and Learning

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The professional graduate degree in interior architecture & product design is a five-year program (a one-year environmental design studies program is followed by four years including a summer course of study) results in the Master of Interior Architecture & Product Design (MIAPD).

Students in the Master of Interior Architecture & Product Design program have the opportunity to gain competency in interior design, furniture design, product design, and space planning, with a strong foundation of understanding the architectural features and constraints.

The combination of coursework, experiences, field trips, and community involvement in a wide array of student organizations and interdisciplinary activities prepares students to be global design citizens. They learn to foster synergy, embrace successful collaboration, and recognize interconnectedness; with awareness of the responsibility of individual and collective actions in personal, social and environmental arenas; and, that positions them with the critical collaborative leadership skills to serve them throughout their careers.Interior projects include space articulation, programming, material and finish selection, furniture and fixture specification, signage and wayfinding; each with the underpinning of human behavior at the core.

Throughout projects of all scopes, students learn to gather information using research, identify problem(s), and propose innovative solutions. Topics such as sustainability, enhancing human interaction and satisfaction, life-safety, materiality, and designing for the wide array of users is coupled with function and aesthetics and embedded throughout the curriculum.

Courses include:

* Design Graphics Workshop
* Design Studio 6
* Lighting in IAPD
* Building Construction Systems IA
* Interior Architecture Internship
* Interior Architecture Internship Report
* Interior Architecture Summer Internship
* Interior Architecture Summer Internship Report
* Study Abroad Experience
* Advanced 3-D Computer Modeling
* Interior Architecture Seminar
* IAPD Design Studio 5
* Design Workshop II
* Design Workshop II Studio
* IAPD Capstone Studio
* Design Research
* Furniture Design Workshop Studio
* Furniture Design Workshop
* Advanced Studio Programming
* Advanced Seminar in IA
* Advanced Product Design Studio
* Advanced IA Design Studio
* Advanced Furniture Design Studio & Workshop
* Problems in Interior Architecture
* Facilities Management
* Professional Practice
* Contemporary Design

An applicant to the Graduate School at Kansas State University must have a bachelor's degree substantially the same as the ones granted by Kansas State University. That is, it must represent a broad range of courses in the basic academic disciplines. Applicants whose degrees do not meet these standards may be denied admission to graduate degree programs at Kansas State University.Admission is denied to applicants holding bachelor's degrees with a significant amount of credit for work that was not supervised by a faculty member of an accredited college or university or evaluated in units that identify the academic content. A limited amount of credit for experience, when awarded as an acceptable part of a bachelor's degree for internships, fieldwork, or the like, is not a cause for denial but must be clearly identified as graded work.Applicants to graduate degree programs pay a non-refundable application fee of: * $50 for U.S. citizens and permanent residents and * $75 for international applicants English Language Requirements IELTS band: 6.5 TOEFL paper-based test score : 550 TOEFL iBT® test: 79

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• ✔️ Certificate upon completion

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Most graduate students are able to finance their education with a variety of financial assistance tools specific to graduate school:

* Graduate Assistantships: Funded by individual departments and graduate programs, teaching, research and graduate assistantships are awarded based on a student's ability and promise.
* Graduate Fellowships
* Loans: Loans are available to U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have successfully applied for financial assistance
* Traineeships: Traineeships are offered through the university or departments that have federally supported traineeships.

Accreditation

The departments five-year program of study is one of the first curricula in this profession to be recognized and accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) in the United States. The Department of Interior Architecture & Product Design has a long history (50 years), of providing an enriching educational experience in preparing graduates for professional careers.

Situated in the College of Architecture, Planning & Design, we are among other professional programs (Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning) who each value the learning experiences associated with being in an interdisciplinary college.