1. 2015 Curriculum Changes for Interior Design at JCCC Darla Green

2. How do you know when curriculum needs to change?

3.  When the program is no longer serving the needs of the community in it’s current format. This could be due to a variety of things – changes in the market, changes in technology etc…  Our Curriculum should be on a rotation and updated to stay current as our industry incorporates, Marketing, Management, Design, Products and Technology. This idea of rotation will vary from program to program. For example: Interior Design should be updated more frequently than say - math which might be a lot longer time frame.

4.  Program review results will be a valuable resource in seeing what curriculum needs to be updated. How do you know when curriculum needs to change?

5. Where do you Start? Program Planning Model: Courtesy of RoseMary S. Caffarella

6. Where do you Start?  First: we explored data from the following sources to determine the changes needed:  1. Industry  2. Students  3. Professional Standards  Second: we defined the purpose of our program.

7. Looking at the Data  Industry data  We looked at information from:  Our Advisory Board  Professional Organization reports (ASID, IIDA, NKBA)  Industry trend reports  Local Industry leaders

8. Looking at the Data  Student data  We used information from Student Exit Interviews.

9. Looking at the Data  Professional Standards  CIDA: four year institution accrediting body  NKBA: Kitchen & Bath accrediting body  USGBC: LEED professional standards  JCCC: SLO’s

10. Defining the purpose of your Program.  For our program, we wanted to serve our students by providing multiple pathways for students to achieve their goals.  These pathways needed to be usable and stackable.  We looked at our data in combination with serving our community and came up with the follow skill sets for a graduate of our program to acquire from our degrees and certificates.

12. Defining the purpose of your Program Developing Program Objectives

13. Defining the purpose of your Program.  For our program, we wanted to serve our community by providing multiple pathways for students to achieve their goals.  These pathways needed to be usable and stackable.  We looked at our data in combination with serving our community and came up with the follow program objectives.

14. What we needed our program to do for students based on facts.  We wanted our program to serve the students seeking a stand alone degree.  We wanted our program to serve the students seeking to transfer to 4 year institutions.  We wanted our program to serve the students seeking a Kitchen & Bath degree. (NKBA accreditation)  We wanted our program to serve the enterprising students seeking to managing their own business.  We wanted our program to provide sustainability training across all courses.

15. Interior Design AAS  The focus for this degree:  Stand alone: meet the standards to sit for the licensing exam. Able to be an effective residential or commercial designer.  Transfer: able to transfer to a 4 year institution. Using the CIDA Professional Standards – we mapped the required competencies to each course in the degree.

16. Kitchen & Bath AAS  The focus for this degree:  Stand alone: Ability to sit for licensing exam. Ability to be an effective Kitchen and Bath designer.  NKBA Accreditation: Our program is up for reaccreditation in 2015. Using the NKBA Body of Knowledge – we mapped the required competencies to each course in the degree.

17. Interior Design Management & Marketing  The focus of this degree:  Stand alone: Ability to be an effective Design Manager or Design Marketing department member.  Transfer: Ability to transfer to the OttawaU at JCCC to receive a bachelors in Business Administration: concentration in marketing.

18. Sustainability  Throughout all curriculum. Over 70% of the Interior Design curriculum includes sustainability.

19. Certificates  We also, wanted our program to have steps to achieving these degrees. We have identified certificates that can be earned that will also step into the AAS degrees.  Interior Staging  1 semester  Interior Design Sales  2 semester