If you desire a career in interiors, whether it is drawing, drafting, designing, marketing or specifying materials, the Interior Design
concentration is for you!

   Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
   Degree: Family and Consumer Sciences
   Concentration: Interior Design/Fashion Merchandising
   Option: Interior Design

The interior design option offers you an opportunity to explore many facets of the design industry from the process of conceptual sketches through the final phase of installation. Through our course offerings you will learn:

+ color applications
+ commercial design
+ computer-aided design
+ drafting techniques
+ history of interiors
+ perspective drawing and rendering
+ housing and home equipment
+ residential design

Our program gives you an opportunity to individualize your course of study to meet specific goals in interior design. Your focus is developed through the personal attention given by your advisor as you select courses to meet your goals. Part of your specialization can be a supervised field experience in interior design where you receive job training and employment contacts.  

Career Opportunities

For more information contact:
Dr. Joey Mehlhorn, Interim Chair
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
The University of Tennessee at Martin
340 Gooch Hall
Martin, TN 38238-5045
(731) 881-7102

mehlhorn@utm.edu