INTERIOR DESIGN 150	HISTORY OF FURNITURE
Fall 2002

Instructor:	Connie Wais
Office:	L114C
Phone:	564-2623 or 564-2341
e-mail:	cwais@bcc.ctc.edu
Office Hours:	T & H 12:30-3:00 p.m.
Text:	Course Module Available at the BCC Bookstore Recommended: Dictionary of Furniture by Charles Boyce Limited # available at the BCC Bookstore
Website:	http://online.bcc.ctc.edu/indes150

A.	COURSE DESCRIPTION This course meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-2:40 p.m. It will include lecture, discussion, slide presentations, the development of a resource notebook, review charts and completion of weekly worksheets.
B.	COURSE OBJECTIVES You should be able to identify different styles and periods of furniture from the antiquity through the mid-nineteenth century. You will gain an understanding of why furniture took the forms that it did in different historic periods. You should be able to analyze furniture from four different points of view: Function Technology Aesthetics Social Status You should know the relationship of concurrent periods to each other. (A Time Line has been supplied in your module. Refer to it frequently!)
C.	COURSE REQUIREMENTS 100% ATTENDANCE: We will move quickly through a great deal of information and if you miss class you will miss valuable details. A complete tentative schedule of lecture topics, worksheet assignments and exams is attached. Put this in your notebook and refer to it constantly. The worksheet assignments are to be completed and handed in on the dates indicated after discussing them in class. They will be graded on a credit/no credit basis – if you don’t hand in a worksheet or if it is not completed, no credit will be given. These worksheets cover the important information to be learned. They are your responsibility and for your benefit. If you don’t do them you will not learn anything and risk failing the course. It’s a cliché, but it’s true: Learning is not a spectator sport. Please take careful note of the due dates for the worksheets. No late worksheets will be accepted. NEATNESS AND ACCURATE PRESENTATION IS VERY IMPORTANT in everything that you do within the field of Interior Design. Work had and set high standards for yourself. It will pay off in this class and in your future. The student is expected to augment the text and class module with his/her own lecture notes. It is expected that the student will use research materials to further clarify lecture topics.
D.	RESOURCE BOOK AND REVIEW CHARTS: You will be required to create a Resource Book and Review Charts to be handed in at the end of the quarter. This will be your Resource Notebook. Included in this notebook should be examples or pictures relating to each period that we study in addition to your worksheets, notes and articles to enhance the content of your book. Many modern furnishings borrow heavily from the past, so look for these examples and add them to your notebook along with good examples of furnishings of the periods we are covering. This is a time consuming project, so keep up with it as we study each period throughout the quarter!
E.	SUPPLIES Folder with interior pockets for turning in weekly assignments. (Place your name clearly in the upper right-hand corner.) Three-ring, loose-leaf binder and index dividers (for dividing the periods, etc.) Scissors or exacto knife. Rubber cement or glue stick Unlined notebook paper or other unlined paper for drawing different period designs. Tracing paper Black marking pen (i.e. not ballpoint) Magazines with pictures of room interiors and furnishings.
Please keep your notebook well organized and crisply neat! Your drawings should be clear and unmarked.
F.	GRADING: Your final grade will be computed as follows:
	1. Worksheets	15%
	2. Mid-term exam #1	15%
	3. Mid-term exam #2	15%
	4. Resource Notebook	20%
	5. Review Chart	15%
	6. Final Exam	20%
	Your grades will be assigned to percentage point totals as follows:
	95 – 100% = A	76 – 79 = C +
	90 – 94 = A -	74 – 75 = C
	86 – 89 = B+	70 – 73 = C-
	84 – 85 = B	65 – 69 = D+
	80 – 83 = B-	60 – 64 = D
		< 60 = F

G.	ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
	As professional Interior Designers we are expected to maintain the highest of personal standards and an unwavering code of ethics. Therefore, academic dishonesty, in any form will not be tolerated. Any instances of cheating or dishonesty will be dealt with as outlined in the BCC Student Handbook and the A/H Division Policies.
H.	Accommodation of Students with Disabilities Students with disabilities who have accommodation needs are required to meet with the Director of Disability Support Services, Room B132 (telephone 425-564-2498), to establish their eligibility for accommodation. In addition, students are encouraged to review their accommodation requirements with each instructor during the first week of the quarter.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

TENTATIVE ASSIGNMENTS

Week 1 September 24 & 26
Introduction, overview Meaning of Furniture AGE OF ANTIQUITY Egypt, Greek, Roman	Read text: Chapters 1, 2, 4 & 5 Worksheet 1 due: October 3
Week 2 October 1 & 3
Middle Ages & Gothic Periods 100-1500 AD	Read text: Chapters 6, 7 & 8 Begin Review Chart Begin Worksheet 2 Due: October 15
Week 3 October 8 & 10
Italian Renaissance Spanish Renaissance French Renaissance	Worksheet 2 due: October 15 Read text: Chapters 13, 14, 15 Complete Review Chart for Middle Ages, Gothic and Renaissance Study for Midterm #1 on October 17
Week 4 October 15 & 17
MIDTERM #1 Thursday, October 17 Louis XIV - Baroque Period 1643-1700 Régence 1700-1730 French Periods	Begin Worksheet 3 due: October 29 Read text: pages 354-357 Read text: pages 112-117
Week 5 October 22 & 24
Louis XV 1730-1760 (Rococo) Louis XVI 1760-1789 (Neo Classical)	Read text: pages 358-360 Read text: pages 362 Worksheet 3 due: October 29 Complete Review Chart for Louis XIV,XV & XVI
Week 6 October 29 & 31
Directoire Empire 1804-1815 Biedermeier, French Provencial	Read text: pages 360-363 Worksheet 4 due: November 5 Complete Review Chart for French Periods and Biedermeier Study for Mid-term #2 on Thursday, Nov. 7

Week 7 November 5 & 7
MIDTERM #2 Thursday, Nov. 7 ENGLISH PERIODS Transitional Period Tudor 1485-1558 Elizabethan Period 1558-1603 Jacobean Period 1603-1649 Commonwealth 1649-1660	Review text: Chapter 16 Read text: pages 396-407 Begin Worksheet 5
Week 8 November 12 & 14
Restoration 1660-1702 Queen Anne 1702-1714 Early Georgian 1714-1750 Middle Georgian 1750-1770	Read text: pages 401-404 Read text: pages 404-408 Worksheet 5 due: Nov. 19 View The Story of English Furniture Video
Week 9 November 19 & 21
Late Georgian 1770-1811 Adam, Sheraton, Hepplewhite Regency 1811-1830 American Periods Early Colonial 1608-1720	Work on Review Chart Begin worksheet 6 due: November 26 Read text: Chapter 18
Week 10 November 26 & 28
T HA N K S G I V I N G H O L I D A Y November 28 & 29 American Georgian 1720-1790 American Federal 1790-1820 Catch up and review	Read text: pages 475-485 Worksheet 7 due: Fri., Dec. 6 REVIEW CHART due: Fri., Dec. 6 WITH NOTEBOOKS due: Fri. Dec. 6 Study for Final: Thurs., Dec. 5
Week 11 November 27 & 29
Catch up and review for final. Review worksheet #7 - Thursday, Dec. 3	F I N A L E X A M: Dec. 5 Resource Books due for grading December 6, by 4:00 pm
Week 12 Dec. 10 & 12
Finals Week	Resource Book and Exam ready for pick-up between 1:30 and 3:20 on Thursday, Dec. 12, in my office (L114C).

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