Interior Design with Art & Design Foundation Year

Got a passion for creative design? Not quite ready to undertake a full honours degree? Solent University’s Design Foundation Programme is perfectly suited to students who may not be from an art- design- or fashion-related background or whose qualifications do not meet the admissions requirements of their chosen course.

To help get you up to speed, this one-year foundation course provides all the creative, technical and study skills needed for entry onto a degree-level art, design or fashion course. Upon completion, you will be able to progress onto a range of art-, design- and fashion- related courses here at Solent.

The course begins with a five-week group project. This enables students to mix with like-minded peers and helps them to settle in quickly. This project also helps students to decide which area they might like to follow at a later stage.

The following ten weeks are spent introducing students to the world of art, design and fashion. This includes design history, vocabulary, methods and academic foundation. This ten-week block will also give students the opportunity to learn and apply two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualisation techniques, giving them the tools required to conduct their final project.

This final project takes place in the last fifteen weeks of the course and is based around the specific discipline that the student will go on to study. The project will be supported by tuition in visual presentation techniques, enabling students to communicate their concepts, development processes and final proposals. Students will also receive instruction in verbal communication and presentation techniques, increasing their confidence in pitching design ideas.

Students can develop an understanding of the ethos and expectations associated with degree-level study, enabling them to more easily make the transition to higher education.

What does this course lead to?
You will go on to study the BA (Hons) Interior Design course.

Who is this course for?
Our design foundation programme is ideal for students who aren’t quite ready to undertake a full undergraduate degree, either because they aren’t from an art- design- or fashion-related background, or they don’t quite meet the entry requirements.

FOUNDATION MODULES
Group Design Project
Industry Awareness
Design Visualisation 
Industry Skills
Personal Development Planning
Degree-related Project

On successful completion of the foundation year, you will automatically progress onto the BA (Hons) Interior Design course where you will study the following modules:

YEAR 1 - CORE MODULES
Architectural Design Development
Architectural Design Realisation
Design Communications
Materials and Finishes
History of Design
Interior Design Practice

YEAR 2 - CORE MODULES
Commercial Interior Design
Ergonomics
Interior Detailling
Modern and Contemporary Studies
Architectural Visualisation

YEAR 2 - OPTIONS (please note that not all options are guaranteed to run each year)
Sustainable Refurbishment
Building Information Modelling

YEAR 3 - CORE MODULES
Sustainability and Interior Design Development
Sustainability and Interior Design Realisation
Final Major Project
Professional Practice

To accommodate individual differences in both learning styles and communication skills, the foundation course will apply a programme of summative assessment methods. This programme will include portfolios, reports, verbal presentations and reflective statements. Each module will employ a mix of methods appropriate for that module. For example, the module ‘Personal Development Planning’ will be assessed by reflective statement and an accompanying portfolio.