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612
Product Design | This studio explores the marketing, psychology, conceptualization, and design of products commonly found in interiors, from tableware to telephones. |
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613
Lighting Design | This studio course focuses on the design of the decorative luminaire, its history, and functionality. Studies include period styles, thematic content, and religious context as well as form, materials, and luminous characteristics. Students will research, design, and fabricate a working prototype of a custom decorative luminaire and visit museums, glassworks, shade restoration specialists, and manufacturing plants. |
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614
Set Design | This course introduces the related discipline of set design. Students will utilize their previously acquired knowledge, technical skills, and creativity to investigate the issues and techniques involved in designing for the theater, television, and film. |
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621
Office Design | This course traces the development of the design of the office workplace, the single biggest speciality in contract interior design. Beginning with the rise of commerce and banking, progressing through the revolution in technology, downsizing and globalization, students examine in depth the interdisciplinary contributions by interior designers, architects, industrial designers, real estate and development firms, bankers, and business users.
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622
Green Design | Interior designers and architects have become increasingly responsible for formulating environmentally responsible design solutions. In this course, students learn to incorporate parameters for energy reduction, health, and sustainable construction and finish materials, HVAC, lighting, recycling, and cost payback into the research and completion of one or more "green" design projects. |
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623
Furniture Design | This course focuses on the process of designing furniture prototypes from the initial articulation of design objectives to the technical exploration of their manufacture. Seminar discussions and research lead to the design of an original furniture prototype. |
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624
Hospitality Design | In this course, students undertake a design project that develops a restaurant or hotel interior. Discussion topics covered include: the growth of tourist industries; the impact of changing economic conditions and public tastes; and the planning and furnishing of hotels and restaurants. |
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625
Exhibition Design | A successful exhibit generates interest and excitement about its subject matter. This course focuses on the special challenge of designing an appropriate exhibition for a gallery, museum, trade show, convention, or showroom. |
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640
Design Studio I | The objective of this studio is to focus conceptually and analytically on the manipulation of interior space using a contemporary program in a historical context. Students analyze a landmarked building and develop a design that accommodates a program of new uses.
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645
History & Theory of Interior Design | This research seminar is an in-depth analysis of the classical tradition in architecture and interior design from Versailles to Post-Modern classicism. Students will read primary theoretical texts, give an oral presentation and develop a research paper on an aspect or work of classical design. Students will be instructed in how to conduct advanced scholarly research and write formal analyses of buildings and interiors. |
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647
Sociology of the Domestic Interior | This seminar analyzes the factors that shape domestic interiors from Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism. A variety of sources of meaning for each period will be examined including language of furniture, social factors, power, prestige, gender issues, the role of childhood, and technological advances. In addition to lectures and discussions, emphasis will be placed on conducting scholarly research using databases and libraries. |
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650
Design Studio II | The subject of this studio is a comprehensive and detailed design of interior spaces within a modern building shell, such as a residential condominium, office building, airport, or shopping mall. Students analyze the complex relationships among tenants, developers, architects, engineers, interior designers, and others in the planning and implementation of tenant projects within such structures. |
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651
Landscape Design | This studio explores the concepts, principles, and methods of landscape design with special focus on the relationships between landscape and interior design. Students will develop a studio project that relates interior and exterior space through the discourse of landscaping and plant design. |
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655
History & Theory of Interior Design | This seminar analyzes the modernist and avant-garde traditions in architecture and interior design. Emphasis is on the critical reading and in-class discussion of the major writings on modern design theory and criticism from the Gothic Revival and the Arts and Crafts to Free-Form Modernism. Students will develop research topics into a final paper dealing with the relationship between modern theory and practice. |
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656
Sociology of Cont. Environment | This seminar explores the relationship of contemporary interior and architectural design and their subtle sociological and psychological effects on the general public. The changing environment is examined in relation to the resulting innate human response as it weighs the influences of technology, communication, workplace, and megastructures against the collective psyche. |
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660
Directed Thesis Research | In consultation with faculty, students select challenging subjects that relate to issues in the world of design today. Each student conducts systematic research and analyzes ideas that become the foundation for the thesis (670). |
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665
History and Theory of Aesthetics | This seminar focuses on the history and theory of Aesthetics from the late 17th century writings of Claude Perrault to the Surrealist Manifestos of the 20th century. Writers covered include the Germans Baumgarten, Kant and Hegel; the French theorists Laugier, Boullée, and Breton; the English authors Hogarth, Wordsworth, Burke, Price, and Ruskin. Emphasis is on an analysis of major aesthetic categories (the Beautiful, the Sublime, the Picturesque, the Exotic, the Surreal) and their relationship to actual works of art and design, past and present. |
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670
Thesis Studio | The thesis is a culminating interior design project requiring a comprehensive solution to a stated design problem of the student's choice. This capstone experience involves advanced exploration of pertinent theoretical issues and is based on systematic research and analysis. |
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680
Independent Study | This course option allows the experienced student with a 3.50 GPA or better to create an individual program of study with a faculty member. Students are required to present an outline of their intended study to their faculty advisor and coordinator of the graduate program for approval prior to registration. |
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690
Internship | The NYSID internship program offers elective academic credit for college-monitored work experience to qualified students matriculated in the second year of the MFA degree program. It is designed to help students build on skills already learned in the classroom and to acquire new ones. Students have the opportunity to integrate theory and practice and, in doing so, gain professional experience. Students are also able to make valuable contacts and explore opportunities for permanent employment after graduation.
An internship for credit consists of 240 hours of contact time at the job placement site. Customarily, this consists of two 8-hour workdays for the 15-week fall or spring semester or six 40-hour weeks during the summer break. A student may take no more that one internship for credit towards their degree.
The student works with an academic advisor prior to registration to identify a suitable placement. A learning contract is developed by the student and the advisor in collaboration with the placement mentor. The student keeps a journal of the experience, documenting the fulfillment of the learning contract objectives. The placement mentor signs off on the journal and submits an evaluation of the student at the conclusion of the placement. The student is assigned a grade of "P" or "F."
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