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Defining Graduate Education in Interior Design
Author(s) -
Guerin Denise A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of interior design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1939-1668
pISSN - 1071-7641
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-1668.2007.tb00316.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , clothing , interior design , computer science , world wide web , engineering , sociology , history , architectural engineering , archaeology
As it exists today, interior design graduate education is defined by various degrees with different missions, professional content, research content, degree nomenclature, accredited status, credit hour requirements, and curricular focus. This creates a lack of clarity for the consuming public and especially for institutions of higher education that must define minimum requirements for its faculty hires. It is incumbent on the profession, as it continues to evolve, to clarify the role of graduate education and to specifically define the attributes of the terminal master’s degree. It is therefore proposed that the “terminal master’s degree in Interior Design” be defined: