Course Description - Bachelor of Decoration and Interior Design

  • 15200103: Communication Skills [2 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces the student to concepts, theories and skills in the field of human communication in Arabic and English, and provides him with basic skills in the field of communication with himself and with others through the art of recitation, dialogue, persuasion, negotiation and leadership, to enhance his practice in his daily and practical life using new methods based on diverse and effective training and evaluation. In addition to the knowledge of electronic communication and social intelligence, as well as enabling the student to write his CV and conduct a personal interview in Arabic and English. The course aims to develop the student's skills on written, oral and electronic communication and the use of body language in order to improve the abilities to communicate with others in general, in addition to the students' abilities to send and receive in the study and work environment in particular.


  • 15200104: Social Services [1 Credit Hours]

    Students perform voluntary work such as donating blood, repairing homes, tourist trails, or holding educational workshops at the university, and the student is committed to training or working for 40 hours.


  • 15200107: Islamic Studies [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15080110: Intro.to art education [2 Credit Hours]

    The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to a set of technical terms and art schools related to design and plastic art by giving an overview of all the arts in general to prepare the student for the practical courses.


  • 15080447: Interior Design 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to an advanced level of interior design and furniture arrangement especially in commercial and service constructions such as theaters, cinemas, shops, hotels, libraries, nurseries, exhibitions, etc.


  • 15090204: Executive Charts I [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090322: Field Training I [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15080102: History of Art (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course outlines the periods of human artistic creativity in the fields of painting, photography, sculpting and ceramic in different historical epochs starting from the primitive caveman through the ancient civilizations of Iraq, Egypt, Greece and Byzantium till the Renaissance.


  • 15080451: Scintific Research Methods [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to provide students with the knowledge, concepts and tools in addition to educational research writing skills. The course includes the fundamentals and steps of the research starting from choosing the topic to documenting the references. This course emphasizes on the correct scientific methodology in the historical, descriptive, experimental research methodology, study communities, research samples, research tools, problems, questions and objectives. It also explains to the student the way to get the results and recommendations in writing the scientific research and how to apply them all in writing the thesis and master thesis.


  • 15090102: Engineering Drawing [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090404: Executive Plans II [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090405: Landscaping II [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090106: Decoration Plants [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090305: Construction of Buildings and Materials Technology [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090303: Models and Furniture Design/Furniture Accessories [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15080330: Traditional Crafts 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    The aim of this course is to acquaint the students with the tools used in art crafts such as carpentry and metal works.


  • 15090316: Advanced Landscaping and Implementation [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15041101: Computer Skills and Applications [3 Credit Hours]

    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history and evolution of computers and their generations. Some of the topics discussed in this course are basic concepts of information technology, hardware and computer programming, computer memory, data representation, number systems, operating systems, computer networks and the Internet, databases, computer ethics, algorithms writing and flow charting. data. Students are also trained on the latest versions of Microsoft office software.


  • 15080327: Pills of quantities& specifications [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the estimation of quantities needed for internal works and finishes. It also examines the types of tenders, their calls and submission to the contractors as well as addressing the roles of the engineer, the owner and the contractor.


  • 15090101: Design Principles [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090309: Advanced Interior Design II [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090307: Architectural Design II [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090202: Trees (ُEvergreen, Deciduous, Olive Trees) [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090314: Advanced Interior Design III [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15080442: Art criticisms [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with the basic entries at theoretical, philosophical, and aesthetic levels in addition to the history of arts criticism, its methodologies, tools, and some of its Arabs and international pioneers who came up with the foundations of artwork and conscious mechanisms in analyzing it according to aesthetic theories. This course also examines an overview of aesthetic theories, starting with the classical Greek aesthetic theories down to the aesthetic ideas in the middle ages and aesthetic concepts in the renaissance and what followed it of modern romance aesthetics in addition to the postmodern era


  • 15080333: Computer Design 3 [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, students move to new stage of designing webpages and animations through learning to use a designated group of designing programs


  • 15080455: Interior Design (3) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to study the interior design and the interior spaces of social and tourism centers, especially hotels, restaurants, rest houses, information centers and open spaces that have services to the public, by studying the design idea and applying it to the actual reality and expressing it in the interior space and its complements and annexes, in which the student is trained on how to put Interior designs, horizontal projections, sections, facades, executive drawings, perspectives and models, in addition to a theoretical research in the material with the idea of the project and the style and design pattern followed in this way.


  • 15090205: Carpentry and Decoration Works I [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090401: Carpentry, Painting and Decoration Workshops II [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090311: Interior Design IV [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15080105: Basics of Sculpture,Ceramics [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to color theories and the correct mechanisms used in the creation of color harmony and contrast, with a focus on the effect of color on the design of art in terms of achieving unity, balance, movement and other design foundations. This course also outlines color ordering system, its historical development, and the physical and psychological impact of colors on the viewer.


  • 15200106: ُEnglish (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    English 1 is a theoretical, 3-credit hour university requisite, and a general English Course which is designed to serve all BA and BSc Students of (PTUK) in all faculties. This course aims at developing students’ repertoire of the English language main skills as well as sub-skills through providing them with broad varieties of language patterns, grammatical and structural rules, and vocabulary items that can enable them to communicate meaningfully within ordinary and real-life contexts and situations. This course is also oriented towards equipping students with the skills they need to comprehend texts, contexts, and situations that are related to ordinary and real-life topics. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a wide and various aural inputs in order to broaden and deepen their skills in listening, judgment, and critical thinking. Students of this course are expected to acquire and practice the skills they need to maximize their capabilities to express opinions about ordinary and real life topics both orally and in a written format, which will help in widening the students’ academic horizon.


  • 15080101: Academic Drawing (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    This is a practical course aimed at developing the students’ visual ability and basic drawing skills through a set of exercises in the drawing of still life nature using pencils to represent light and dark values in the correct proportions and perspective.


  • 15080109: Islamic Art [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the roots of Islamic art, factors of maturity of Islamic art, its relationship with other arts and the areas in which Muslims have produced profusely such as Arabic Photography, Islamic Architecture, Mosaic Art, Murals, Wood Carving, Metal Ornament, Glass and Crystal Industry, Textile, Ceramics and Manuscripts.


  • 15080214: Graphic Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to all logo types. Students will recreate logos for real companies and try to develop them professionally through applying the fundamental principles


  • 15090317: Principles of Calligraphy and Ornament [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15200101: Palestinian Issue [3 Credit Hours]

    The course deals with the events of the Palestinian issue through the most important ages from the Canaanites until the year 2021. It focuses on the Islamic conquest of Palestine in the year 15 AH 636 AD, the Crusader torch from 1099 to the liberation of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi of Palestine in 1187, and it talks about the Ottomans in Palestine from 1516 to 1917. The course is concerned with the Palestinian issue during the British occupation in 1917, until the Nakba in 1948, and the establishment of the occupation state .It deals with the Palestinian resistance and revolutions during 100 years, and Arab-Israeli wars from 1948 to 2021.The course talks about Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian resistance movements and parties, Palestinian Authority and the peace negotiations projects since the 1978 Camp David Accords until 2021.The course talks about attempts to Judaism Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque since the Palestinian setback in 1967 until 2021, and the issue of Palestinian refugees since 1948. It also anticipates the future of the Palestinian issue.


  • 15080217: Computer Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, students will learn how to use Graphic Design software like Adobe Illustrator and the tools that could be used in the designing process.


  • 15090105: Advanced Interior Design I [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090301: Architectural Design I [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090302: Landscaping I [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15080453: Aesthetics Science [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the most important aesthetic theories developed by ancient philosophers and modernists such as Rasto, Plato and Hegel in order to enable the students to read the artwork consciously according to academic principles.


  • 15080445: Graphic Design 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is an extension to the course "Computer-Aided Design 1". Students learn in this course how to formulate and plan advertising campaigns, design posters, and design fixed and static commercial signs.


  • 15200102: Arabic Language [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to develop the students’ cognitive abilities and communication skills in Arabic language by introducing Arabic dictionaries, spelling and grammatical errors, and familiarizing them with ancient and modern Arabic literary models including models from the Holy Qur’an.


  • 15080103: Perspective [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to develop the students’ abilities in three-dimensional interior and architectural designs using engineering tools. It also aims to increase the students’ sense of light, shadow, size and the nature of materials. Throughout this course, students draw models of interior furniture and spaces, and use the principles of engineering perspectives based on horizontal and side planes.


  • 15090402: Environmental Design of Buildings and Green Architecture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090403: Lighting and Sound Techniques [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090433: Field Training II [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090444: Graduation Project [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15200099: Pre-English [3 Credit Hours]

    Remedial English: The course is a compulsory service course offered for first year students. It is a prerequisite for E1 and it focuses mainly on the language learning skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course is intended to equip the students with basic skills necessary for successful communication in both oral and written forms of the language. In addition to grammar and how to use vocabulary in a meaningful context.


  • 15080213: History of Modern Art [3 Credit Hours]

    This course examines contemporary arts movements that emerged in the nineteenth century in the West. The course primarily tackles the reasons behind their emergence, development, and integration with other cultures, especially within the Arab world. This course also addresses the changes and stages that these arts movements have been through, and sheds light on their important implications in the formation of more liberal art mainstreams that played a role in the creation of the modern stylistic concepts in the twentieth century.


  • 15080104: Colors Theory [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at introducing students to color theories and the correct mechanisms used in the creation of color harmony and contrast, with a focus on the effect of color on the design of art in terms of achieving unity, balance, movement and other design foundations. This course also outlines color ordering system, its historical development, and the physical and psychological impact of colors on the viewer.


  • 15080219: Intrior Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, the student is introduced to the concepts, conventions and basic symbols used in interior furnishing. The students also study the elements that that determine interior design the likes of the location, space and function.


  • 15080322: Computer Design 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at providing students with advanced designing and image processing skills using Adobe Photoshop software.


  • 15090201: Architecture and Interior Design Theory [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090206: Irrigation and Drainage Systems Technologies [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15090306: Electrical Extensions and Sanitation [3 Credit Hours]


  • 15090315: Architectural Design III [3 Credit Hours]