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Interior Design Assessment Mission

Mission

Students who successfully complete the Interior Design Comprehensive major in the Department of Family Studies and Interior Design at the University of Nebraska at Kearney will:

  1. Develop a broad knowledge and understanding of their disciplinary studies and how these can be applied in the working world. Interior Design substance areas:
    1. Design Fundamentals
    2. Interior Design
    3. Communication
    4. Building Systems and Interior Materials
    5. Regulations
    6. Business and Professional Practice
    7. Professional values
  2. Demonstrate proficiency in their profession through a supervised work site experience.
  3. Be prepared to assume entry-level professional positions or pursue advanced studies.
  4. Demonstrate clear, critical thinking, and communication.
  5. Develop intellectual qualities essential for responsible citizenship in society such as integrity, respect for others and diversity, initiative, diligence, a capacity for life-long learning.

Objectives

Knowledge

  1. Students will develop an understanding of a broad knowledge and understanding of their disciplinary studies and how these can be applied in the working world. Interior Design substance areas are:
    1. Design Fundamentals
    2. Interior Design
    3. Communication
    4. Building Systems and Interior Materials
    5. Regulations
    6. Business and Professional Practice
    7. Professional values

Skills

  1. Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of computer technologies necessary for competence and proficiency in the workplace.
  2. Students will demonstrate the ability to write in their professional field.
  3. Students will demonstrate competency in oral communication by creating and delivering public presentations related to their disciplinary studies.

Values

  1. Students will demonstrate professional attitudes such as good work place habits, motivation, anticipating work demands, and ethical and social sensitivity, deemed essential for professional competence.
  2. Students will demonstrate professionalism in the workplace regarding appropriate dress, deportment, sensitivity to diversity issues, as well as ethical and moral issues that may confront them. Length of Internships is 320 clock hours or seven credits. Internships are processed through an Internship Coordinator the department shares with another department.
 

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