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ARCH X 443.40
This concentrated six-week course examines the appropriateness, timing, aesthetics, function, and availability of accessories in residential interior design.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: February 13, 2025
ARCH X 498.10
This course demonstrates the proper verbal and graphic skills needed to create the ideal portfolio and design presentation.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 468.6B
This advanced SketchUp course is designed to give you the necessary skills to develop a model for presentation and construction purposes.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: February 10, 2025
ARCH 707
A brief examination of the tools and techniques involved in making effective architectural photographs with virtually any camera.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH 700
Learn how our Interior Design Certificate program can prepare you for an exciting career in interior architecture and help you reach your personal and professional goals.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 452.1
This course covers the study of the perception of color, its permutations, and its dimensions, using traditional as well as contemporary methods.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 467.17A
This beginning interior design course focuses on basic freehand drawing and drafting.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 466E
This course explores the full range of constructed line drawings, including axonometric, one-point perspective, and model making.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
ARCH X 466F
This course helps students translate 2-D floor plans into 3-D spaces.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 468.20
This hands-on course introduces designers to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Learn why the use of these professional tools is essential to the creative design process.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
ARCH X 468.13A
This hands-on workshop introduces the basic concepts and tools of Revit, a building information modeling program for architects and interior designers.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
ARCH X 438.13B
This advanced Revit course covers editing commands, sharing information, viewing tools, visualization, annotation, and construction documents.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 11, 2025
ARCH X 468.5A
This course covers the basic AutoCAD commands used to create and edit 2-D CAD drawings.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
ARCH X 454A
This introduction to design fundamentals will help you develop perceptual skills, sensitivity, creative awareness, and the technical ability necessary to handle a variety of design media.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 454B
This course examines abstract structuring in 2-D and 3-D design, use of construction materials, and fundamentals of modular systems and their modifications and variations.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 443.45
This course examines the principles and application of Feng Shui in interior design.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 438
This course offers an introduction to the process of commercial and residential interior design. Learn about the principles of design, the history of design in Los Angeles and Southern California, and more.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
ARCH X 427.8A
Part one of a four-part survey of environmental arts of the Western world. This course covers the Aegean, Grecian, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine cultures, encompassing early Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic periods.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 427.8B
Part two of a four-part survey course on the environmental arts of the Western world, tracing architecture from the Italian Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century in France, England, and America.
Format: Online | Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
ARCH X 427.8C
This course traces the architecture and decorative arts of the 19th century. Periods covered include French Empire, Gothic Revival, Victorian, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and more.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 427.8D
Part four of a four-part survey course on the environmental arts of the Western world, tracing the major movements in architecture, interior design, furniture, and decorative arts of the 20th century.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
ARCH X 433
The first in a series of studio courses, students are given the opportunity to apply fundamental design principles to the layout of interior spaces while incorporating ergonomics and human factors.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 430A
This studio course introduces students to the process of linking rooms and spaces by architectural promenades. Students design a small single-family residence and learn to create atmospheric environments.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 497.10
This course serves as an introduction to principles of contractual law as applied to the relationship between the interior designer and the client.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 497.11
This course introduces fundamental legal principles regarding employment law, intellectual property law, unfair competition law, and other specific legal topics as they apply to the interior design business.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
ARCH 711
Explore the special powers of the iPad for early stage concept development.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 467.15
This course covers basic lighting topics, including light and texture, color, fixture schedules, switching patterns, and more.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
ARCH X 467.11A
This course introduces the tools and techniques used in photographing architecture, interiors, renderings, plans, design boards, and scale models.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 473
This internship gives students an opportunity to acquire hands-on industry experience.
Format: Independent Study/Internship
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH 702
An introduction to the fundamentals of residential interior design.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH 709
An introductory guide to remodeling residential homes to enhance modern lifestyle needs for designers, homeowners, and prospective buyers.
Next Start Date: TBA
ARCH X 468.6A
This comprehensive hands-on workshop covers the basic 2-D and 3-D commands necessary to construct 3-D objects in SketchUp.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 427.7
This introductory course to surface materials for interior designers covers the selection and use of textiles, wall coverings, hard and soft surfaces, floor coverings, rugs, ceramic and vinyl tile, woods, and plastics.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
ARCH X 469.1
Learn about 3 iPad drawing apps you can use in your daily professional lives: Morpholio Trace, Procreate, and Sketchup for iPad
Next Start Date: TBA
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