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Diploma of Interior Design
Melbourne Polytechnic, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
Apply your eye for trends to real world challenges:
Melbourne Polytechnic’s Diploma of Interior Design MSF50222 can let you turn your eye for interiors into a stylish and rewarding career. You’ll learn the core principles and techniques needed to start your career in interior design, including how to research and use CAD design, analyse and apply colour, visual design practice and media techniques.
You’ll be taught by our qualified and experienced design teachers, who have consulted with a variety of excellent industry contacts and affiliations, including the Design Institute of Australia, Design Matters (BDAV) and a range of retailers, designers and decorators, ensuring that everything you learn is timeless or on trend. Melbourne Polytechnic provides you with real world experience before you graduate, including the opportunity for internships with our industry partners and associates, student-run stalls at the Melbourne Home Show and annual interior design competitions, so you can enter the industry job ready with an active portfolio.
Fees & duration
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Course structure
Study plan in 26 parts
- BSBESB406- Establish operational strategies and procedures for new business ventures
- CUAACD311- Produce drawings to communicate ideas
- CUAACD312- Produce computer-aided drawings
- CUAACD313- Produce technical drawings
- CUADES302- Explore and apply the creative design process to 2D forms
- CUADES303- Explore and apply the creative design process to 3D forms
- CUADES512- Establish
- negotiate and refine a design brief
- CUADIG303- Produce and prepare photo images
- MSFGN4001- Research and meet ethical and compliance requirements
- MSFID4012- Decorate residential interiors
- MSFID4013- Design residential interior lighting
- MSFID4014- Produce digital models and documentation for interior design projects
- MSFID4015- Prepare materials and finishes boards for client presentation
- MSFID4016- Design colour schemes for interior and exterior spaces
- MSFID4017- Research and recommend furniture and accessories
- MSFID4018- Research and recommend hard materials and finishes for interiors
- MSFID4019- Research interior decoration and design influences
- MSFID4021- Design soft furnishing solutions for interior spaces
- MSFID5016- Develop decoration proposals for complex sites
- MSFID5020- Design residential interiors
- MSFID5021- Evaluate site structure and services for interior design briefs
- MSFID5022- Explore and apply creative design methodology to interior space
- MSFID5023- Design for all ages and abilities
- MSFID5024- Design workplace interiors
- MSFID5025- Develop residential interior design project documentation
- MSFID5028- Research and recommend artwork
Career & PR pathway
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Admissions
Melbourne Polytechnic's course page currently shows a notice that this course is not open to new international applications, alongside the published entry criteria below (the course carries CRICOS code 111977H). Requirements You must complete Certificate IV in Interior Decoration MSF40122 or MSF40118 As part of the enrolment process, you will be required to attend a pre-training review with an Enrolment Centre Advisor. In your pre-training review, you and your Enrolment Centre Advisor will discuss: Your literacy, numeracy and digital literacy capability. This may be established through an assessment and/or other evidence provided during the enrolment process. Academic: Australian Year 12 equivalency. You must complete Certificate IV in Interior Decoration MSF40122 English: Academic IELTS 6.0 overall, Pearson PTE Academic 50 overall or Melbourne Polytechnic recognised equivalency.
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