Interior Design

Course Overview

The graduate program in the School of Interiors, from University of Kentucky provides students with a Masters of Arts degree and post-professional research experiences that lead to expertise in an area of specialization drawn from interdisciplinary knowledge. Filtered through the lens of interior design, this expertise will cultivate and expand the body of knowledge as interior design as demanded by the profession into new domains of practice. Areas of specialization include: Evidence-Based Design, Workplace Design, Experience Design, Community Activism, Design for Aging, History & Theory, Environmentally Responsible Design, Leaders in the profession have noted the importance of cultiviating both practice-based and theory-based research to advancing the interior design profession. Fully integrated research into practice will require a paradigm shift, but is viewed as the future of the profession.