Guided by its institutional mission, strategic priorities, existing academic strengths, and market feasibility study, Effat University offers a Bachelor of Science in Design in Effat College of Architecture and Design. This degree includes two academic concentrations: Interior Design, and Industrial Design.
Design as a professional activity is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative and therefore, the Bachelor of Science in Design (B.Sc. DESN) program is based on an educational framework that is broad, rigorous and discipline specific. In addition to its close alignment to architecture, engineering, and the social sciences and humanities, the studio-based design program provides an interdisciplinary orientation to the history and theory of design disciplines. Core areas include design thinking, the creation of space and place, material culture and production, and environmental sustainability. The program's location in the College of Architecture and Design is a deliberate choice to emphasize the role of technology in the creation, representation, production and perception of the materials, processes and assemblies associated with our experience of space, place and products.
The Bachelor of Science in Design degree is intended for students who seek a broad understanding of the influential role of design in our daily lives. Through one of two, distinct concentrations - Interior Design and Industrial Design - students are able to focus on specific areas of interest, which in turn, position them for practice in these fields or for further graduate study. The two concentrations were carefully chosen due to overlapping academic domains, closely aligned professional practices and the increasing employment opportunities available regionally, nationally and internationally.
The Bachelor of Science in Design (B.Sc. Design) provides two concentrations as follows.
- Interior Design (INTD)
- Industrial Design (IDES)
