This is a composition course that stresses the writing process. Students will write multi-paragraph essays using the following expository modes: description, narration, example, comparison/contrast, classification/division, process analysis, and causal analysis. Nonfiction readings will be covered to help illustrate writing structures and the organization of ideas. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ASSET placement OR successful completion (grade "C") of GE0011EN and/or GE0012RD
This course surveys Western art forms relative to political, social, religious, and economic movements from antiquity to the Mannerist period. Topics include painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: None
This is a composition course that focuses primarily on analytical and persuasive writing, as well as the research paper. Emphasis is also placed on critical reading and thinking. Cultural issues such as diversity, multiculturalism, tolerance, and effective communication will be discussed in connection with some writing assignments. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE10110
This course covers algebraic techniques and problem-solving, such as algebraic and complex fractions, operations with real numbers, linear functions and systems, quadratic equations, radicals and radical expressions, factoring, polynomials, conic equations and applications, exponents and radicals. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ASSET placement OR successful completion (grade "C") of GE0013MA, GE0013MA
This course surveys Western art forms relative to political, social, religious, and economic movements from the Baroque to present day. Topics include painting, sculpture, decorative arts, architecture, photography, and conceptual art. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
In this course, students will learn professional methods of speaking and of communicating their ideas and experience to others. Students will prepare and deliver demonstration and persuasive speeches designed to be effective with a variety of audiences. Students will also participate in small group presentations. Topics include subject selection, audience analysis, research, organization, and the use of voice and body in speech delivery. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course focuses on a working knowledge of human sensory processes and their subsequent perceptual and behavioral manifestations. Topics include learning, memory, consciousness, and cognition. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE10110, GE10210
This is course an introduction to the concepts, theory and practice of ethical decision-making in the personal and social realms. Concepts such as justice, mercy, responsibility, and morality are considered. Students will learn about a broad range of ethical theories and theorists, ancient to modern. These theories will be compared, contrasted, and applied to a variety of ethical problems, dilemmas, and controversies. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
In this course students will examine group interaction within human society. Through texts, lectures, videos, and discussions, students will learn about the variety of ways sociologists view human culture and society, as well as the sociological phenomena that affect the lives of individuals within the world-wide human family. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course covers the period of U.S. history from early colonization to the Spanish/American War. Primary emphasis is on the English colonies and the period of nationhood. This course will examine U.S. history in terms of social, economic and political perspectives, and students will also trace the histories of various American populations, such as women, African-Americans, Native Americans, etc., throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
The creative professions require innovative individuals with clear vision. Freshmen at The Art Institute of Philadelphia will work together to develop the vision of what makes a successful student and professional. The course begins by welcoming students into The Art Institute of Philadelphia community and helping them integrate into this student environment. Students will become acquainted with college and community resources, explore their goals for success, and work on establishing a visionary course for the development of their professional portfolio. The course concludes with attending the portfolio show of the graduating class. (0 quarter credits, 2 hours per week)
The student learns to identify and use basic drafting equipment, drafting terminology, and symbols. Emphasis is on line and lettering and good drafting habits. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course introduces the student to freehand perspective as it applies to interior design. Students use a variety of media to learn drawing skills and develop an awareness of light as it affects objects and figures in the environment. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course is an exploration of the basic language of design and how it applies to color as perceived in the interior environment. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
An introduction to the principles and techniques of one point perspective drawing. Perspectives are generated from dimensioned floor plans that include a variety of interior architectural elements. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10110, ID10120
An introduction to the spatial implications of common interior elements. Through the survey of drafting of furniture, doors, windows, fireplaces, and stairs in context, the student will learn the parameters of their design and depiction. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10110
This course begins the basic design series. It is an introduction to the principles and elements of interior design and the process of design development. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10110, ID10130
An introduction to the principles of two point perspective drawing. Detailing interior perspective drawings in one and two point perspective. The use of perspective in developmental design drawings is emphasized. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10210
A continuation of the principles and elements of interior design and the process of design development; introduction to programming, schematics, space planning, and alternate design solutions. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10210, ID10220, ID10230
Students learn the drawing skills and architectural symbols needed to interpret and execute a design. Plans, sections, elevations and details are developed for a design project. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10220
A study of different materials and their appropriate use on walls, floors, ceilings, windows and furniture. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course is a continuation of the principles and elements of design used in the planning of residential space. Kitchen and bath design and problems and guidelines used in new construction and in renovation are emphasized. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10310, ID10320, ID10410
Students learn to make realistic presentations of two- and three-dimensional drawings including materials such as fabric, steel, masonry, and glass utilizing marker and colored pencil. Emphasis is on light sources, shades, shadows, and board presentation. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10420, ID10430 AND must be taken with ID20541
An introduction to computers and computer technology. Lessons emphasize computer-aided design and drafting (CADD). Hands-on laboratory time is provided. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10410
This course is an introduction to three major parameters of interior design: ADA, sustainable and universal design. Students will interpret client preferences and identify appropriate materials and design components based on the principles of these three integral design issues. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10420, ID10430 AND must be taken with ID20510
An introductory course to contract design where students learn how to design and plan commercial interiors, stressing the basic concepts and principles of contract design. Emphasis is on employee job functions, interdepartmental relationships, traffic flow, and equipment needs. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10420, ID10430 AND must be taken with ID20561 and ID20851
A study of artificial lighting as well as lighting fixtures, terminology, and applications. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10420, ID10430 AND must be taken with ID20550
Students acquire a working knowledge of building materials and construction, as well as basic support systems, plumbing, heating, ventilation, and electric, and their importance to interior design execution. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10420, ID20520
A study of residential types, architectural styles, and the selection of furnishings for traditional residential spaces. Attention is given to the aesthetic and functional needs of people with various lifestyles and on a multi-level historic restoration. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20541, ID20510, ID20550, ID20561, ID20851
Students learn how to design and plan commercial, industrial, corporate, and institutional interiors. Emphasis is on employee job functions, interdepartmental relationships, traffic flow, and equipment needs including retail circulation. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
The study of furniture from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on historic styles and individual efforts. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID10420
An overview of business and marketing principles is given in this course. Students are taught to plan budgets and work within plan, to draft invoices, and to develop contracts. Also, students work with methods that will promote their abilities in business. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20541, ID20550, course must be taken with, or after, ID20752
A study of residential types, locations, architectural styles, and the selection of furnishings for both traditional and contemporary residential spaces. Attention is given to the aesthetic and functional needs of people with various lifestyles. Emphasis is on adaptive re-use (utilizing a raw space, designing a specific residence). (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20630
Students learn how to plan and design a corporate office space for LEED CI submission. Emphasis on concepting, developing a planning module, developing a space plan, designing a reflected ceiling plan, design development of finishes and furniture and presentation skills all in a sustainable framework. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20641
The documentation of commercial design, including plans, elevations, sections, reflected ceiling, and dimensioning. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20610, ID20752
A continuation of CADD I with emphasis on AutoCADD and on producing a set of working drawings. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20520 AND must be taken with ID20550 and ID20561
Through the use of a variety of media and techniques, students learn to make realistic presentations from two- and three-dimensional drawings of various materials such as fabric, steel, masonry, and glass. Emphasis is on light sources, shades, shadows, and presentation techniques. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20741, ID20752, ID20841, AND must be taken with ID30931
Prerequisites: ID20741, ID20752, ID20841
Students learn how to design and plan commercial, industrial, corporate, and institutional interiors. Emphasis is on employee job functions, interdepartmental relationships, traffic flow, and equipment needs, stressing corporate design. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20741, ID20752, ID20841, AND must be taken with ID30910
A survey of furniture styles, terminology, construction methods, and materials. Emphasis is on the proper drafting of workroom specifications for custom designs. Lectures, slides, and field trips to workrooms are included. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20510, ID20661
A continuation of AutoCADD and the opportunity to apply this technology to enhance presentation techniques. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID20851
A study of residential types, locations and architectural styles and the selection of furnishings for traditional, transitional, and contemporary residential spaces. Attention is given to the aesthetic and functional needs of people with “high-end” lifestyles. Emphasis is on renovation for luxury residential hospitality. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID30910, ID30922, ID30931
Students explore educational facility interior design with emphasis on understanding the age specific requirements of the students and the interrelationships of the support areas and staff. The designs will incorporate barrier free, universal design and focus on environmentally responsible choices and sustainable design solutions. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course analyzes the evolution of modern architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries, exploring various architectural movements from the beginnings of industrialization to the present. The student will research architects and discover the theoretical foundations which have had an impact on architectural thought in the 20th century. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE10120, GE10230
Students will select their major project in either residential or non-residential design and develop a detailed program for that project. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE20510, ID31011, ID31021, ID31030
This course will have changing subject matter from quarter to quarter depending upon instructor expertise and/or industry demand. Topic selection will be at the discretion of the instructor and agreed upon the Interior Design department. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID31011, ID31021
After a thorough evaluation, the senior student’s portfolio is completed to bring it up to professional standards. Job interviews, portfolio presentation and what to expect from the first job are reviewed and discussed. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Students will develop their approved thesis research program, building, and site selections with a focus on spatial relatioships. Final presentations will demonstrate proficiency in all previously acquired skills and knowledge and are expressed both verbally and graphically. This course represents a specialized aspect of the overall project and an introduction to a professional interior design project. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID41110; Co-requisites: ID41260, ID41270
Students will develop their approved thesis research program, building, and site selections with a focus on interior materials. Final presentations will demonstrate proficiency in all previously acquired skills and knowledge and are expressed both verbally and graphically. This course represents a specialized aspect of the overall project and an introduction to a professional interior design project. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID41110; Co-requisites: ID41250, ID41270
Students will develop their approved thesis research program, building, and site selections with a focus on interior architecture. Final presentations will demonstrate proficiency in all previously acquired skills and knowledge and are expressed both verbally and graphically. This course represents a specialized aspect of the overall project and an introduction to a professional interior design project. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: ID41110; Co-requisites: ID41250, ID41260
Through a field experience, students will be able to apply acquired subject matter and career/professional skills in a real life situation. Through a field experience, students will be able to apply acquired subject matter and career/professional skills in a real life situation. The main objective of the internship is to allow students the opportunity to observe and participate in the operation of a successful business relating to their field of study. The students will gain experience needed to enter the field upon graduation. (3 quarter credits, 9 hours per week)
Prerequisites: completion of all courses required in the quarters prior to the last two OR Academic Director Approval
This course introduces the theories and applications of both the IBM and Macintosh computers. Topics include word processing, spreadsheets, databases, PowerPoint, computer graphics, file preparation for high-end output, file management, basic data storage and retrieval and the Internet. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course provides a framework for considering critically significant photographers and their work. Students will be expected to describe, interpret, and evaluate the origins, stylistic changes, and artistic innovations in the history of photography from the nineteenth century through contemporary times. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course focuses on international literary selections. Topics include the critical evaluation of the literary genres: short story, poetry, and drama. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course is an introduction to the principles and practices of American Government. Concepts such as democracy, civil rights, civil liberties; public opinion; mass media, political parties, and the three branches of government will be discussed. Students will learn about the framework of government from colonialism to the present day. Government ideologies will be discussed and applied to various situations in an unbiased manner. Students will be able to see the importance of government and how decisions made by the government affect our everyday daily lives. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course will introduce the student to the physical, ecological, social and political principles of environmental science. The student should gain an understanding of scientific method and how it is used to analyze the relationship between humans and the natural environment. The course will help the student to develop an analytical framework that he/she can use to judge environmental issues and intelligently discuss environmental responsibility. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Students will study the following principles: motion and the effects of unbalanced force systems acting upon rigid bodies; Newton’s laws of motion; motion along straight and curved paths; weight; work, energy and power; impulse, momentum and impact. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE10220 OR GE10450
This course covers the period of U.S. history from the turn of the century to the present. This course will examine U.S. history in terms of social, economic and political perspectives. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course provides an introduction to the principles of economics emphasizing an analysis of the economy as a whole. Interrelationships among the consumer, business, and government sectors are explored from American and international economic perspectives. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE10110, GE10210, AND GE10220 OR GE10450
This course is designed for students who wish to study abroad. Students will travel between the spring and summer quarters and will return to campus to complete a final exhibition project during the summer quarter. The course will consist of lectures, activities, research, and discussions designed to examine the culture, history, and aesthetics of the city or cities chosen for the study abroad experience. Students will also be encouraged to explore issues of identity and place, ideology (values, norms, customs), society (conformity/autonomy, gender, class), and structure (religious, political, economic) as they share, analyze, and reflect upon their experiences throughout the course. (3 quarter credits, 44 hours over two week break)
Theatre Appreciation introduces students to the art, in theory and in practice, of live theatre and the many types of artists who collaborate to create a theatrical production. This course will enhance students’ appreciation of the nature and place of theatre in contemporary culture. Students will experience theatre in depth through reading scripts, analyzing productions, and completing a creative theatre project. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course focuses on aesthetics, which is alternately defined as philosophy of art, philosophy of beauty, and philosophy of taste. All three definitions point to the ways in which we create, experience, think about, and write about the fine arts. Through texts, lectures, videos, and discussions, students will learn about the variety of ways in which individuals generate their own critical voice and aesthetic theories. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE10110, GE10210 AND GE10120 OR GE10230
This course introduces students to the aesthetic, technical, and historical principles of film and the artists who were instrumental in its development and growth. Students will examine the creative process and analyze the different genres of film. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course gives an overview of basic legal principles related to starting and conducting a business. Topics include legal systems, litigation, dispute resolution and contracts. The protection of intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and service marks, is also emphasized. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course is an introduction to theories about the process of communication, including key concepts and terms for human communication. Additionally, listening and feedback, nonverbal communication, intrapersonal and interpersonal communication, group and organizational communications will also be a focus. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course focuses on the development of critical reasoning skills, including the ability to evaluate a wide variety of information. Students will consider what an argument is, how arguments go wrong and what makes an argument valid. Students will study both informal and formal logical arguments and structures. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course focuses on past and current social issues and political and economic trends that influence America and its people. Additionally, the course will focus on how political and economic trends impact world affairs. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course offers students the opportunity to explore the diversity of cultures through the reading and analysis of modern literary works. Included in the study will be historical and political influences, social trends, customs and values. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course will introduce the student to the historical development of music and the composers of different eras. Students will focus on the role that music plays in our lives today as well as examining the cultural influences that have determined the varied musical languages throughout the world. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course will focus on the museum and its function in society. Topics will include the role of museums, their history and philosophy, and their structure and nature. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE10110, GE10210, AND GE10120 OR GE10230
This course will cover the history of 20th Century art. It will explore the inter-relationship between historical, social, political, religious and technological developments in the 20th century and the art that was a reflection of these developments. The course will discuss the modern artist’s role in society as innovator, social activist, explorer, critic and prophet. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course will consider up to three genres of creative writing: fiction, poetry and the nonfiction essay. Throughout the quarter, assignments and activities will provide students with opportunities to hone their creative voices and have their work, as well as that of their peers, critiqued in a workshop setting. In addition to producing creative writing, critical and formalist approaches will be applied to contemporary and canonical works; these exercises will provide students with an objective vocabulary with which to evaluate two rather polished pieces that they will generate during the course. Students will also be introduced to the methods and procedures of the publishing market. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
This course will examine emerging photographic styles and perspectives of a newer generation of photographers reacting to the cultural revolution of the 60’s and 70’s; the eruption in the 80’s of Post-Modernism and Critical Theory; and the digital revolution of the 90’s. Students will further examine contemporary issues focusing on the theoretical swing from Post-Modernism back to Modernist practices; and lastly a look at the popular trend of using alternative processes from the nineteenth century. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE10110, GE10210, GE10130
This course is designed for students who wish to study abroad. Students will travel between the spring and summer quarters and will return to campus to complete a final exhibition project and an in-depth research paper during the summer quarter. The course will consist of lectures, activities, research, and discussions designed to examine the culture, history, and aesthetics of the city or cities chosen for the study abroad experience. Students will also be encouraged to explore issues of identity and place, ideology (values, norms, customs), society (conformity/ autonomy, gender, class), and structure (religious, political, economic) as they share, analyze, and reflect upon their experiences throughout the course. (3 quarter credits, 44 hours over two week break)
This course includes representing and analyzing data through such measures as central tendency, dispersion, probability theory, the binomial distributions, the normal curve and normal distributions, central limit theory, and sampling distributions. Graphing and using polynomial functions and systems of equations and inequalities in the interpretation and solution of problems will be examined. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
The Comparative Religions course is an introduction to the academic study of religion. The course objectively examines religious beliefs and practices across human history, with particular emphasis upon how the human past has shaped worldwide religious belief and experience in the present. Students learn about a broad range of religious traditions, and how particular beliefs might affect ritual behavior, interpersonal relationships and the practice of “community.” (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)
Prerequisites: GE20510 OR GE20530
In this course students will explore the different media theories and their impact upon society, ethics, and popular culture. Students will use this information to inform and enrich their own work and to critically evaluate media art. (3 quarter credits, 4 hours per week)