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General Description:
Objective(s) of the study programme:
The aim of Interior and Furniture Design study programme is to prepare a specialist able to design an interior of residential and public purposes and its elements, make technological processes of production, improve the products’ constructions and their process, try the products, correct drawings, prepare projects for legalization, and to organize the department’s activity, documentation and manage the employees.
Learning outcomes:
Graduates will be able:
1. to distinguish and relate various technological processes;
2. to design interior elements and interior of different purposes for people of various age groups and professions applying new construction elements and fittings;
3. to rearrange the products’ constructions using modern information technology means (computer programmes);
4. to substantiate the products’ constructions and to evaluate their quality;
5. to recommend the project for implementation;
6. to evaluate the company’s or subdivision’s activity and provide the strategy for development;
7. to manage documentation according to the methods and standard requirements;
8. to cooperate and communicate with partners and clients of various levels, to use the advanced information technologies;
9. to develop the personal common skills by developing the principles of life-long-learning.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Teaching themes, case study, discussions, seminars, work in groups, brainstorming, preparation of course papers, self-study papers and practice reports, their presentation and defense. Practice in the computer classrooms, simulation laboratories, wood shops, real production base. Practices in the college practical training centre, design showrooms and actual companies.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
The evaluation is performed using the individual accumulative assessment system, ten point grading system. The quality of course papers, practical and self-study works, reports and presentations’ is assessed together with the active participation in seminars or the level of the works prepared for the reviews (portfolio method).
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Volume of the general college studies – 15 credits. Introduction to Philosophy, Lithuanian Language Culture and Business Correspondence, Basics of Psychology, Foreign Language.
Volume of the study field subjects – 135 credits.
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Mechanics, Construction Materials, Information Technologies, Engineering Graphics, Human Safety, Typology, Drawing, Composition, Graphic Design, Materials’ Analysis, Interior Decorating, Graphic Dimensional Design, Tools and Devices for Producing Interior Elements, Design, Standardization and Quality Management, Business Economics and Management, Basics of Law.
Practices - for improvement of skills (6 credits), creative-productive (6 credits), productive technological (10 credits), final (8 credits).
Final thesis – 12 credits.
Specialisations:

Optional courses:
Deeper specialization subjects – 21 credit.
Production Technology of Interior Elements, Construction of Interior Elements, Decoration Technology, Ethno-culture.
Free elective course units - 9 credits. Students can deepen the knowledge in a chosen field of studies by selecting courses from the general list of free elective study subjects suggested in the college website http://www.kaunokolegija.lt/studentams/studijos/laisvai- pasirenkamieji-dalykai/

Distinctive features of a study programme:
- The Interior and Furniture Design programme is the only programme of this field in Lithuanian higher schools.
- Students are taught and are able not only to design, but also to produce their created products.
- The knowledge is improved by visiting world exhibitions of furniture production and design, woodworking technologies.
- The students present their works in international specialized exhibitions, display them in interior salons, and participate in international projects and contests.
- The students have an opportunity to cooperate with designers and architects designing the interiors of public purpose.
- The practical work is organized in interior salons, folk art workshops, and the best Lithuanian and foreign companies.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
The graduates, having successfully completed the studies work as designers of furniture and interior elements in the studios of design and interior, sales assistants in interior salons, engineers of furniture and interior elements’ construction, production technologists and specialists in the companies producing wood products.
Access to further study:
Graduates of this study programme can continue their studies (in the same field) in Kaunas University of Technology, Vytautas Magnus University or other national and foreign higher education institution.
Graduates are enrolled to the second cycle studies by the approved procedure of the university.