The Interior Design program at Bellevue College offers a broadly-based and professionally-relevant curriculum that leads to a three-year degree: the Associate of Arts in Interior Design. The program challenges students to achieve excellence, and is designed as a terminal degree that prepares graduates to successfully compete for jobs and to function as professional interior designers. Program faculty are professionally active, and degree requirements include internships that provide hands-on work experience in the field. Program courses form the backbone of transfer agreements with universities offering baccalaureate degrees in Interior Design.
Summer 2010 Program Change
Beginning in Summer 2010, a new two-year Associate of Arts in Interior Studies will begin. At that time, new students will no longer be able to choose the three-year AA in Interior Design option. However, students who began the three-year program prior to that can elect to follow it to completion. The three-year AA degree will likely be retired in 2013.
Admission
Bellevue College has an open door policy, and all interested students are eligible and invited to apply. There is no pre-screening or portfolio review for admission, and new students need only to comply with Bellevue College's basic eligibility requirements as described in the Bellevue College Course Catalog. We value diverse backgrounds and seek to create an inclusive learning atmosphere with universal relevance. The Interior Design program typically attracts students from the Seattle metro area, but we also have students from outside the Pacific Northwest region as well as many international students.
Location and Administration
The Interior Design department occupies facilities designed and constructed in 1998 specifically for the department. Flexible studio, presentation and display areas, a large sample library, and a state-of-the-art CAD studio are among the amenities enjoyed by students and faculty alike. These dedicated facilities are supplemented by studio space in the Art department and a well-equipped furniture-making shop. Bellevue College's lush, 95-acre campus is located approximately 12 miles east of Seattle, in the Puget Sound metropolitan area. This urban location provides ample opportunities for internships and employment, as well as access to showrooms and other professional resources.
The department has four full-time instructors, numerous professionally-active adjunct instructors, and more than 500 students. The program is administratively housed in the Arts and Humanities division along with Art, Music, and other Liberal Arts disciplines that comprise this organizational unit.
This information is maintained by Michelle Chavez and Janis Juarez for the Bellevue College Interior Design Department, a program within the Arts and Humanities division at Bellevue College. Program questions should be directored to the faculty of the Interior Design Department.
Copyright 2006, Bellevue College. Site last update:
September 18, 2009
This website was developed with funding from a Bellevue College Foundation Mini-Grant. Bellevue College is an Equal Opportunity Institution.
