Interior Design

Faculty of Architecture
Department of Architecture and Urbanism

Major:Interior Design

Professional qualification: Interior Designer

Level of qualification: Educational-and-qualification degree Bachelor

Duration of programme: 4 years / 8 semesters

Number of credits allocated: 240

Field of study (ISCED-F): 0212: Fashion, interior and industrial design

Admissions requirements: to be diploma holders of completed secondary education and to sit an entrance exam

Specific arrangements for recognition of prior studies:
ECTS Coordinator - Desislava Hristova, Arch., tel.: +359 52359579, e-mail: arch@vfu.bg - provides information about the opportunities for recognition of prior education - formal and informal.
Procedure: recognition of credits from academic transcripts of domestic and foreign universities (if the academic transcript is from a foreign university, it must be legalized and translated into the Bulgarian language), foreign language diplomas, computer skills certificates and diplomas.

Requirements and rules for qualification: 240 credits, of which 10 are obtained for successfully defended diploma thesis. The training ends with a diploma thesis defence, but only students who have successfully passed all their exams throughout their course of studies and have defended successfully their semester projects are admitted to defence.

Profile of the major: The main goal of the programme is to prepare professionals in the field of interior and furniture design, and to provide them with the opportunity to pursue career in other present-day fields such as re-design, eco-design, innovative design, etc.
The high quality of education is guaranteed by the involvement of outstanding Bulgarian experts in the field and practicing designers, as well as with the collaboration of experts from Italy, Germany, Spain and the US, with which the university has partnership relations or works jointly on mobility programmes for lecturers and students. The latter may take part of their training modules at partner European universities under the Erasmus programme. The curriculum is flexible and allows adaptation to such practices, given the uniform European credit system in higher education.

Key learning outcomes: The interior designers will be able to design complete interior solutions including furniture configurations, lighting and spatial solutions, exposition and museum design, interior and facade advertisements and others.
The successful graduates receive the qualification "interior designer" with diploma and the special labels for quality and recognition of the education in Europe - ECTS Label and DS Label, which Varna "Chernorizets Hrabar" has been awarded with.

Structural diagram of the courses with credits*:

No	ECTS Code		Course	Lectures and seminars	Out-of-class workload		Credits
				Tuition hours	Tuition hours
	1		2	3	4		5
1	ARC1267		History of Art	30	60		3
2	ARC1268		Colour Science	30	60		3
3	ARC1269		Structural Combinatorics	30	60		3
4	INF1461		Computer Design (Corel Draw )	45	90		4,5
5	ARC1240		Drawing – part I	30	60		3
6	ARC1243		Painting – part І	30	60		3
	ARC1315		Foreign Language - basic level	60	120		6
	SPO1160		Physical Culture and Sports	45	90		4,5
*Total for the 1^st semester*				*300*	*600*		30
7	ARC1247		History of Design	30	60		3
8	INF1457		Computer Design (InDesign)	30	60		3
9	INF1458		Computer Design (Photoshop)	40	80		4
10	ARC1249		Drawing – part II	30	60		3
11	ARC1251		Painting – part II	30	60		3
12	ARC1253		Ergonomics	15	30		1,5
13	ARC1315		Foreign Language - basic level	60	120		6
14	SPO1160		Physical Culture and Sports	35	70		3,5
15			Elective course А	30	60		3
*Total for the 2^nd semester*				*300*	*600*		30
			*Total for the1st year*	600	1200		60
16	ARC1255		History of Art of the 20^th century	30	60		3
17	INF1459		Computer Design (Illustrator)	60	120		6
18	INF1460		Computer Design (3D Studio Max)	60	120		6
19	ARC1270		Composition in Visual Arts	30	60		3
20	ARC1273		Introduction to the Architectural Design	60	120		6
21			Elective course В1	30	60		3
22			Elective course В2	30	60		3
*Total for the 3^rd semester*				*300*	*600*		30
23	ARC1316		Modelling	45	90		4,5
24	ARC1295		Scale Modelling	45	90		4,5
25	PSY1265		Psychology of Perception	30	60		3
26	ARC1317		Photography	15	30		1,5
27	ARC1318		Semiotics	15	30		1,5
28	ARC2022		Design of Materials and Technologies	45	90		4,5
29	ARC1272		Language Culture	15	30		1,5
30			Elective course С1	30	60		3
31			Elective course С2	30	60		3
*Total for the 4^th semester*				*300*	*600*		30
			*Total for the 2^nd year*	600	1200		60
32	ARC1298		History of Architecture	45	90		4,5
33	ARC1306		Residential Buildings – theory	30	60		3
34	ARC1307		Residential Buildings – project	45	90		4,5
35	ARC1299		Interior - theory	30	60		3
36	ARC1282		Interior – project	60	120		6
37	INF1462		Computer Program / AutoCAD	60	120		6
38			Elective course D1	30	60		3
*Total for the 5^th semester*				*300*	*600*		30
39	ARC1276		Introduction to Architectural Lighting	30	60		3
40	ARC1335		Technologies in Furniture Production	30	60		3
41	ARC1310		Interior - Project II	75	150		7,5
42	ARC1336		Textiles and Interior	30	60		3
43	ARC1337		Furniture Design	45	90		4,5
44			Elective course E	30	60		3
45			Optional course А1	30	60		3
46			Optional course А2	30	60		3
*Total for the 6^th semester*				*300*	*600*		30
			*Total for the 3^rd year*	600	1200		60
47	ARC1280		Urban Infrastructure And Building Installations	45	90		4,5
48	ARC1308		Public Buildings	30	60		3
49	ARC1338		Interior - Project III	75	150		7,5
50			Elective course F1	30	60		3
51			Elective course F2	30	60		3
52			Optional course В1	30	60		3
53			Optional course В2	30	60		3
54			Optional course В3	30	60		3
*Total for the 7^th semester*				*300*	*600*		30
55	ARC3178		National Traditions in Bulgarian Architecture	20	40		2
56	ARC2018		Design for Architecture – theory	30	60		3
57	ARC2018		Design for Architecture – project	60	120		6
58			Elective course G1	30	60		3
59			Elective course G2	30	60		3
60			Optional course С	30	60		3
*Total for the 8^th semester*				*200*	*400*		20
			Total for the 4^th year	500	1000		50
*Diploma thesis*					300		10
Total for the entire course of training:				2300	4900		240
Elective courses
A		PHI2004	Philosophy	30	60	3
		ARC1314	Perspective
B		ARC1265	Portfolio and Presentations	60	120	6
		ARC1249	Drawing III
		ARC1251	Painting III
С		ARC1271	Aesthetics	90	180	9
		ARC1296	Drawing IV
		ARC1297	Painting IV
		ARC1279	Urban Planning
D		ARC1339	Figural Composition / Drawing V /	30	60	3
		ARC1340	Sculpture
		GEO1005	Ecology
E		ARC1341	Parametric Design / Rino ceros	30	60	3
		ARC1278	Cultural Studies
		ARC3170	Graphic design
F		ARC2045	Design for Historic Environment	60	120	6
		ARC1302	Pre-project and Project Analysis
		ARC1342	Redesign
G		ARC1343	Multimedia and computer animation	60	120	6
		ARC1292	Web – design
		ARC1344	Offer documentations and Budget
		ARC1345	Plastic décor and ornament
Optional courses
А		ARC1219	Exposition Design	60	120	6
		ARC3177	Landscape design
		ART1236	Corporate Design
B		ARC3171	Industrial Design	90	180	9
		ARC3165	Introduction to Scenograrhy
		ARC1346	Special Lighting Effects
		ARC1347	Advertising Design
C		FLT 2006	Second Foreign Language	30	60	3
		ARC1348	Art Installations
Foreign languages
1.		FLE 1002	Foreign language – English	120	240	12
		FLG 1002	Foreign language – German
		FLF 1002	Foreign language – French
		FLS 1002	Foreign language – Spanish
		FLR 1002	Foreign language – Russian

Mode of training – full-time;

Examination regulations, assessment and grading: The assessment is according to ECTS and its Bulgarian equivalent. The assessment is based on the following criteria: comprehensiveness of the demonstrated knowledge, quality of documenting of the course assignments and projects, comprehensiveness of research of the problems of particular subject, structure and graphic arrangement of the projects.

Optional or compulsory mobility: Possibility for mobility under Erasmus programme

Internship: none

Apprenticeship programmes: none

Professional profile of the graduates: employability of graduates – The graduates can work as designers in design studios for interior architecture, furniture companies, advertising agencies, etc., administrative and specialized bodies, institutions and civil society organizations in the field of culture, and as experts in municipal and state institutions, other civil formations in the field of culture, leisure and tourism.

Access to further studies: Master’s degree and PhD programmes

Programme director: Cor. Mem. Prof. Arch. Atanas Kovachev, D. Sc.
Tel: 052/359 596, email: arch@vfu.bg

Interior Design

Faculty of Architecture Department of Architecture and Urbanism

Faculty of Architecture
Department of Architecture and Urbanism