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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
This programme is currently under review for 2025/26

Interior Design Core Courses ARCH08054 and ARCH08053 must be passed to progress to Year 2.

To continue without the need for an extension to the total period of study, a full-time student must attain a minimum of 80 credit points by the end of Year 1. Total credits per year must equal 120.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Notes:
Please exclude Centre for Open Learning courses.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Notes:
This programme is currently under review for 2025/26

Interior Design Core Courses ARCH08056, ARCH08057 and ARCH08052 must be passed to progress to Year 3.

To continue without the need for an extension to the total period of study, a full-time student must attain a minimum of 200 credit points by the end of Year 2. Total credits per year must equal 120, 80 of which in year 2 must include Interior Design 2A ARCH08056, Interior Design 2B ARCH08052 and Computer-aided Design ARCH08057.

The courses ARCH08056 Interior Design 2A, Interior Design 2B ARCH08052 and Computer-aided Design ARCH08057 will be delivered each year in semester 1 or 2, totalling 60 credits in each semester.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Materials Reimagined

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
OR

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Notes:
Subject to availability, timetabling, and course pre-requisites, your optional course/module can be from any School within the University of Edinburgh.

Please exclude Centre for Open Learning courses.

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Notes:
This programme is currently under review for 2025/26

COURSE OPTIONS

Option courses to be selected for this DPT using the following rules:

N/A

To continue without the need for an extension to the total period of study, a full-time student must attain a minimum of 360 credit points by the end of Year 3.

To progress into year 4 students must pass all courses (360 credits) of which 80 credits must include ARCH10051 Interior Design 3a, ARCH10054 Interior Design 3b and ARCH10052 Interior Design 3c.

The courses Interior Design 3C: Externality, ARCH10053 Lighting Design for Spaces and ARCH10064 Interior Theory: Design Narratives, will be delivered each year in semester 1 or 2, totalling 60 credits in each semester.

In Semester 2, students may opt to take a semester with UoE Study Abroad or DESI10132 Work-Based Placement: Reflecting on Design Professions (40 credits) in place of ARCH10054 and DESI10147 Design Identities: Roles and Ecologies in place of ARCH10052/ARCH10053/ARCH10064. These courses can only be taken when a placement has been approved with your Programme Director and the Course Organisers prior to week 5 of semester 1 in year 3.

After successful completion of 360 credits as outlined above, students may be eligible to exit with an Ordinary degree. See general DRPS regulation 53 for further details.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Notes:
This programme is currently under review for 2025/26

To continue without the need for an extension to the total period of study, a full-time student must attain a minimum of 480 credit points by the end of Year 4.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

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